[p2p-research] Community economics website

[Michel Bauwens]

Julia Graham's approach would be useful to conceptualize the contradictory
feelings of Massimo regarding the Salinas cooperative in Ecuador,

See: www.communityeconomies.org

*The Community Economies project* is a place where new visions of community
and economy can be theorized, discussed, represented and enacted. The
project grew out of J.K. Gibson-Graham's feminist critique of political
economy that focused upon the limiting effects of representing economies as
dominantly capitalist. Central to the project is the idea that economies are
always diverse and always in the process of becoming. This project developed
as a way of documenting the multiple ways in which people are making
economies of difference and in the process building new forms of community.

The project involves an ongoing collaboration between academic and community
researchers and activists in Australia, North America, and South East Asia.

Our work aims to

   - produce a more inclusive understanding of economy
   - highlight the extent and contribution of hidden and alternative
   economies
   - build sustainable non-capitalist economic alternatives
   - foster community within and around economic organizations
   - engender collaborations between activists, academics and communities

 This website includes information on how we are thinking the economy
outside of a capitalocentric discourse that situates all non-capitalist
activities as ultimately the same as, a complement to, the opposite of, or
contained within capitalism.


*The Community Economies project* is a place where new visions of community
and economy can be theorized, discussed, represented and enacted. The
project grew out of J.K. Gibson-Graham's feminist critique of political
economy that focused upon the limiting effects of representing economies as
dominantly capitalist. Central to the project is the idea that economies are
always diverse and always in the process of becoming. This project developed
as a way of documenting the multiple ways in which people are making
economies of difference and in the process building new forms of community.

The project involves an ongoing collaboration between academic and community
researchers and activists in Australia, North America, and South East Asia.

Our work aims to

   - produce a more inclusive understanding of economy
   - highlight the extent and contribution of hidden and alternative
   economies
   - build sustainable non-capitalist economic alternatives
   - foster community within and around economic organizations
   - engender collaborations between activists, academics and communities

 This website includes information on how we are thinking the economy
outside of a capitalocentric discourse that situates all non-capitalist
activities as ultimately the same as, a complement to, the opposite of, or
contained within capitalism.



-- 
Julie Graham
Professor of Geography
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts
Morrill Science Center 233
611 North Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01003
413 545-5935 (work)
413 545-1200 (fax)
graham at geo.umass.edu
www.communityeconomies.org





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