| Description |
1 online resource (157 pages). |
| Series |
Global studies |
|
Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
|
| Note |
Papers from the study program 'Space - Society - Economy' at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt held during the winter term 2011/2012. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-154). |
| Contents |
Alternative economies and spaces: introductory remarks / Sebastian Hillebrand and Hans-Martin Zademach -- Interrogating alternative local and regional economies: the British credit union movement and post-binary thinking / Andrew E.G. Jonas -- The alternative economy at the regional scale? Lessons from the Chiemgau / Peter North and Katinka Weber -- The possibilities of economic difference? Social relations of value, space and economic geographies / Roger Lee -- Placing the practices of alternative economic geographies: alternative retail, the spaces of intention and ethical ambiguities / Michael K. Goodman and Raymond Bryant -- Social enterprise, social innovation and alternative economies: insights from fair trade and renewable energy / Benjamin Huybrechts. |
| Summary |
The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, Roger Lee, Peter North, and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions - including credit unions, alternative currencies, sustainable consumption, and social enterprises - deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum, the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one, and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Space in economics.
|
|
Regional economics.
|
|
Sustainable development.
|
|
Economic geography.
|
|
Economic geography. (OCoLC)fst00901962
|
|
Regional economics. (OCoLC)fst01093090
|
|
Space in economics. (OCoLC)fst01127736
|
|
Sustainable development. (OCoLC)fst01139731
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
|
| Added Author |
Zademach, Hans-Martin, editor.
|
|
Hillebrand, Sebastian, editor.
|
|
Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, host institution.
|
| Added Title |
New perspectives for a sustainable economy |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Alternative economies and spaces : new perspectives for a sustainable economy. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013] 156 pages ; 23 cm. Global studies 9783837624984 (GyWOH)har130316773 (DLC) 11014375 |
| ISBN |
9783839424988 (electronic bk.) |
|
3839424984 (electronic bk.) |
|
9783837624984 (paperback) |
|
3837624986 |
|
