Alternative Economies and Spaces: New Perspectives for a Sustainable EconomyHans-Martin Zademach, Sebastian Hillebrand The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises - deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives. |
Contents
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The British Credit Union Movement and PostBinary Thinking | 23 |
The Alternative Economy at the Regional Scale? Lessons from the Chiemgau | 43 |
The Possibilities of Economic Difference? Social Relations of Value Space and Economic Geographies | 69 |
Alternative Retail the Spaces of Intention and Ethical Ambiguities | 85 |
Insights from Fair Trade and Renewable Energy | 113 |
References | 131 |
Notes on Contributors | 155 |
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alternative economic spaces alternative retailing ambiguities argue banks Bavaria businesses capitalism capitalist chapter charity shops Chiemgau Chiemgauer circuits of value circulation commodity complementary currencies concept consumers context cooperative credit union movement credit unions cultural currency schemes Defourny discourses diverse economies ecological economic activity economic geographies economic practices economic system environmental ethical consumption ethical fields Euro exchange fair trade fair trade movement Fairtrade Fairtrade Towns Financial Services Authority first-hand ethics focus forms Fuller Gelleri Gibson-Graham global globalisation Goodman Gregson Huybrechts institutions International involved Journal labour Leyshon London mainstream neoliberal networks NGOs nomic Nyssens ordinary economy organisational models organisations Oxfam charity shops Oxfam shops political potential production regional currencies REScoops role Routledge second-hand ethics sector social enterprises Social Entrepreneurship social innovation social relations society spaces of intention spatial Spehl sustainable consumption ternative territorial thinking tion tive transformed worldshops