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

Fuller, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138249734 ISBN 13: 9781138249738

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138249734
• ISBN 13: 9781138249738
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Jonas Andrew E.G.