bookJan 1, 2006Closed access

A Postcapitalist Politics

Abstract

Is there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued follow-up to their book The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), J. K. Gibson-Graham offer already existing alternatives to a global capitalist order and outline strategies for building alternative economies. A Postcapitalist Politics reveals a prolific landscape of economic diversity-one that is not exclusively or predominantly capitalist-and examines the challenges and successes of alternative economic interventions. Gibson-Graham bring together political economy, feminist poststructuralism, and economic activism to foreground the ethical decisions, as opposed to structural imperatives, that construct economic development pathways. Marshalling empirical…

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Keywords
  • Capitalism
  • Politics
  • The Imaginary
  • Political economy
  • Sociology
  • Political science
  • Law
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