A Postcapitalist PoliticsU of Minnesota Press - 276 pagina's 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 evidence from local economic projects and action research in the United States, Australia, and Asia, they produce a distinctive political imaginary with three intersecting moments: a politics of language, of the subject, and of collective action. In the face of an almost universal sense of surrender to capitalist globalization, this book demonstrates that postcapitalist subjects, economies, and communities can be fostered. The authors describe a politics of possibility that can build different economies in place and over space. They urge us to confront the forces that stand in the way of economic experimentation and to explore different ways of moving from theory to action. J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, feminist economic geographers who work, respectively, at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. |
Inhoudsopgave
1 Affects and Emotions for a Postcapitalist Politics | 1 |
Subjection and Becoming | 23 |
3 Constructing a Language of Economic Diversity | 53 |
4 The Community Economy | 79 |
The Intentional Economy of Mondragón | 101 |
6 Cultivating Subjects for a Community Economy | 127 |
7 Building Community Economies | 165 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 241 |
Previous Publications | 263 |
Index | 265 |
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Pagina xxvii - ... separate out, from the contingency that has made us what we are, the possibility of no longer being, doing, or thinking what we are, do, or think.
Pagina 111 - No self-governing workshop, no trade union, no professional association, no co-operative society, and no local authority — and no office or industrial enterprise belonging to any of these — has yet made its administration successful on the lines of letting the subordinate employees elect or dismiss the executive officers or managers whose directions these particular groups of employees have, in their work, to obey.
Pagina xxxiv - The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state, and from the state's institutions, but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.
Pagina 107 - Present-day society" is capitalist society, which exists in all civilized countries, more or less free from medieval admixture, more or less modified by the special historical development of each country, more or less developed. On the other hand, the "present-day state" changes with a country's frontier.
Pagina 22 - A power exerted on a subject, subjection is nevertheless a power assumed by the subject, an assumption that constitutes the instrument of that subject's becoming.
Pagina 107 - In short, the Socialism of Owen led him to propose a practical scheme which was not even socialistic, and which, if it could possibly have been carried out, would have simply arbitrarily redistributed the capital of the country without altering or superseding the capitalist system in the least.
Pagina 36 - Corps, our reverence for the memory of our departed shipmates," respectfully urges the Committee on Invalid Pensions to provide pension benefits for the dependents of retired officers and enlisted men of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard who gave the best years of their lives to the service of their country in the preservation of peace. Mr.
Pagina 96 - In the context of this discussion, we will call articulation any practice establishing a relation among elements such that their identity is modified as a result of the articulatory practice.
Pagina 106 - Cobbett and the Reformers had the first turn. The chief political organisation of the working classes during the Reform Bill agitation began as a trade club. In 1831 a few carpenters met at their house of call in Argyle Street, Oxford Street, to form a
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