How might academic practices contribute to the exciting proliferation of economic experiments occurring worldwide in current moment? In this paper we describe work a nascent research community geographers and other scholars who are making choice bring marginalized, hidden alternative activities light order make them more real credible as objects policy activism. The diverse economies program is, argue, performative ontological project that builds upon draws forth different kind practice...

In the mid-1990s, at height of academic discussion about inevitability capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which authors address critical responses to The End Capitalism outline economic research activism they have been engaged since book was first published. Paralyzing problems are banished by this dazzlingly lucid, creative, practical...

In this paper I rehearse the thinking steps J. K Gibson-Graham developed in order to theorize diverse economies and reveal a landscape of economic difference. Reading with against Clifford Geertz’s 1973 essay “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory Culture,” discuss how “thick description” practices can be combined weak theory produce performative rethinking economy centered on well-being people planet. difficulties resisting influence “strong theory”—that is, powerful discourses...

Abstract: Over Antipode's 40 years our role as academics has dramatically changed. We have been pushed to adopt the stance of experimental researchers open what can be learned from current events and recognize in bringing new realities into being. Faced with daunting prospect global warming apparent stalemate formal political sphere, this essay explores how human beings are transformed by, transformative of, world which we find ourselves. place hybrid research collective at center change....

At the core of J.K. Gibson-Graham's feminist political imaginary is vision a decentralized movement that connects globally dispersed subjects and places through webs signification. We view these both as sites becoming opportunities for belonging. But no longer can we see simply human human-centered. The 'arrival' Anthropocene has thrown us onto new terrain. Feminist critiques hyper-separation are pushing to move beyond divisive binaries human/nonhuman, subject/object, economy/ecology...

Abstract This paper tells the tale of a social research project which has been situated within and shaped by flux current feminist debates. In particular it addresses challenges posed post‐modern theory to hinge on status women as an identity. If we are accept that there is no unity, centre or actuality discover for women, what about? What might be effects researching in mining towns though such group were natural, self‐evident coherent category? this I explore politics situating with...

Within contemporary feminism, common approaches to feminising the economy involve adding a sphere or sector attributing monetary value women's unpaid labour. Each of these is interested in creating an accurate representation real 'whole' economy. But representations are same lineage as mainstream economic conceptions; remains bounded entity that can be known by enumerating its parts. The 'adding on' and 'counting in' strategies employed feminists complete picture what needed produce social...

Book review: Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2006: A postcapitalist politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 360 pp. $70 cloth, $25 paper. ISBN: 978 0 8166 4803 4804 7 paper

Despite Canada's universal healthcare system, significant barriers impede individuals experiencing homelessness from accessing health services. Furthermore, there is a paucity in the qualitative literature describing how Canadians access care Our objective was to qualitatively explore perceived needs and among one large Canadian city – Calgary, Alberta. We conducted descriptive study that included open-ended interviews focus groups with variety of stakeholders who are involved Calgary's...

This paper situates contemporary evaluations of the `success' Spain's Mondragon cooperative complex within a tradition debate about politics economic transformation. It traces long-standing suspicion worker cooperatives among political and social analysts on left, revisiting both revolutionary gradualist socialist critiques cooperativism. Taking set problems identified by Beatrice Sidney Webb as leading to inevitable failure producer cooperatives, examines for evidence `degeneration.' The...

This article employs anti-essentialist Marxist analysis to shed light on the diverse economic activities that Filipina contract migrants are engaged in at home and overseas. We point limitations of dominant representations these women as 'heroes' national development or 'victims' a global capitalist economy, which tend foreclose discussion multiple class processes engendered by transnational labour migration. In drawing fluid theory class, we investigate how domestic workers involved allow...