Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces

392 Pages·2010·3.47 MB·English

by  Duncan Fuller

INTERROGATING ALTERITY
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Interrogating Alterity
Alternative Economic and Political Spaces
Edited by
DUNCAN FULLER
Northumbria University, UK
ANDREW E.G. JONAS
Hull University, UK
and
ROGER LEE
Queen Mary University of London, UK
First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Interrogating alternity : alternative economic and political spaces. -- (Ashgate
economic geography series) 1. Radical economics. 2. Space in economics. 3.
Economic geography. 4. Human geography.
I. Series II. Fuller, Duncan, 1972-III. Jonas, Andrew E. G., 1961-IV. Lee,
Roger, 1945-
330.9′0511-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fuller, Duncan, 1972-Interrogating alterity : alternative economic and political
spaces / by Duncan Fuller, Andrew E. G. Jonas, and Roger Lee.
p. cm. -- (Ashgate economic geography series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7341-5 (hardback)
1. Radical economics. 2. Community development. 3. Space in economics. I.
Jonas, Andrew E. G., 1961-II. Lee, Roger, 1945-III. Title.
HB97.7.F85 2010
330.1--dc22
2010005236
ISBN 978-0-7546-7341-5 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-3155-8963-3 (ebk)
Dedicated to
Duncan Fuller
1972–2008
who was the inspiration for this book
and to
Julie Graham
1945–2010
who showed the way and offered so much support and guidance in completing it
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Editorial Introduction – Duncan Fuller, Andrew E.G. Jonas and Roger Lee
Editorial Postscript
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Acronyms and Key Concepts
PART I ON ALTERNATIVES AND DIVERSITY
1 ‘Alternative’ This, ‘Alternative’ That … : Interrogating Alterity and Diversity
Andrew E.G. Jonas
PART II ALTERNATIVE SPACES OF FINANCE, PRODUCTION AND
INNOVATION
2 The Longevity of Alternative Economic Practices: Lessons from Alternative
Currency Networks
Peter North
3 Alterity’s Geographies: Socio-territoriality and Difference in Islamic Banking
and Finance
Michael Samers and Jane Pollard
4 Finding Alterity in Innovation or Finding Innovation in Alterity?
Megan K. Blake
5 Mutual Dependency, Diversity and Alterity in Production: Cooperatives,
Group Contracting and Factories
John Bryson and Michael Taylor
6 On the Alternativeness of Alternative Food Networks: Sustainability and the
Co-production of Social and Ecological Wealth
Owain Jones, James Kirwan, Carol Morris, Henry Buller, Robert Dunn, Alan
Hopkins, Fran Whittington and Jeff Wood
PART III ALTERNATIVE MARKETS AND SPACES OF
CONSUMPTION
7 How Fair is Fair Enough? Negotiating Alterity and Compromise Within the
German Fair Trade Movement
Dorothea Kleine
8 On Not Keeping up with the Joneses: Is it ‘Alternative’ Not to Shop?
Helen Jarvis
9 ‘Something Different for the Weekend’ Alterity, Performance, Routine and
Proficiency at Farmers’ Markets in the Northeast of England
Keith Spiller
10 Are You Alternative? ‘Alternative’ Food Networks and Consumers’
Definitions of Alterity
Lewis Holloway, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Laura Venn
and Helena Tuomainen
11 The Danish Organic Movement: From Social Movement to Market
Mainstream and Beyond…?
Chris Kjeldsen and Jan Holm Ingemann
PART IV ALTERNATIVE SPACES OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND
DEVELOPMENT
12 Time Banking: A New Economics Alternative
Gill Seyfang
13 Where is the ‘Social’ in Social Enterprise?