Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies

Description

What exactly constitutes an economy? Making Other Worlds Possible brings together a compelling range of projects inspired by the diverse economies research agenda pioneered by J. K. Gibson-Graham. Firmly establishing diverse economies as a field of research, Making Other Worlds Possible outlines an array of different ways scholars are enacting economies that privilege ethical negotiation and a politics of possibility.

Gerda Roelvink is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. Kevin St. Martin is associate professor of geography at Rutgers University. J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and the late Julie Graham, feminist political economists and economic geographers based at the University of Western Sydney and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, respectively.

"What makes the book so special is that each of authors know the communities they speak of and they write with real passion."-Antipode "Making Other Worlds Possible is an inspiring collection, reinforcing the importance of a diverse economies of perspective in search for "just sustainabilities" and urging us to (continue) think(ing) about processes of ethical decision-making, performativity, subjectivation, politics, the (perceived) divide between academia and activism and much more."-Local Environment