Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (Ashgate Economic Geography)

Duncan Fuller, Andrew E.G. Jonas

ISBN 10: 0754673413 / ISBN 13: 9780754673415

Editore: Routledge 2010-07-28, 2010

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• Titolo: Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (Ashgate Economic Geography)
• Editore: Routledge 2010-07-28
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0754673413
• ISBN 13: 9780754673415
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world. Yet there is a danger that the debate about alternatives may become simply a way of fixing global capitalism in its present crisis-ridden form. Instead, the analysis of alternative economic spaces must continue to offer a critique of the very notion of capitalism as a universal, if variable, set of social relations. This important book brings together critical analyses of alterity from across the social sciences and humanities, refining and advancing what alternative economies and polities are, how they are formed, what difficulties and problems they face, and how they might be sustained. A central theme is the need to examine critically both the material contexts and the conceptual categories deployed in the making of alternative economies.

Informazioni sull?autore

Duncan Fuller, Northumbria University, UK, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Hull University, UK and Professor Roger Lee AcSS, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Department of Geography, Queen Mary University of London, UK