Interrogating Alterity (Ashgate Economic Geography Series)

In recent years, researchers across the social sciences have engaged with alternative economic and political practices through various social relations and spatial structures. These are, to a greater or lesser degree, distant or disengaged from a dominant global capitalist economic system and the territorial system of nation states. For geographers in particular there is great excitement about the possibilities inherent in constructing alternative economic spaces and for exploiting alternative spaces of political engagement. This important book brings together critical analyses of alterity from across the social sciences and humanities, refining and advancing what alternative economies and polities are, how they are formed, what difficulties and problems they face, and how they can be sustained.