Articles and Chapters
Building Community Economies in Massachusetts: An Emerging Model of Economic Development?
Janelle Cornwell
This chapter explores how Nuestras Raices and the Alliance to Develop Power, two community organizations in Western Massachusetts, are building community economies and unsettling traditional formulas for economic development.
Graham J., and Cornwell, J. 2009. Building Community Econmies in Massachustts: An Emerging Mode of Economic Development? In Amin, A. (ed).The Social Eonomy International Perspectives on Economic Solidarity. 37-65
Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Space at Collective Copies
This paper explores the production of work space and time in a worker co-operative copy shop in Western Massachusetts.
Cornwell, J. 2011. Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Spaces at Collective Copies. Antipode 00 1-21 Online First
Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Space at Collective Copies
Janelle Cornwell
This paper explores the production of space and time at a worker co-operative copy shop in Western Massachusetts.
Cornwell, J. Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility: An Investigation of Subject Space at Collective Copies. Antipode. 00 Online First 1-21
Socially Creative Thinking or how experimental thinking creates ‘other worlds’
JK Gibson-Graham
The KATARSIS research project responds to one of the most pressing questions of our times—how to live together? In EU countries this concern has focused on creating conditions for social cohesion, especially by researching the ways that processes of exclusion and inclusion operate. On the global stage the question of how to live together has gained increasing weight in recent times in the light of climate change, public health challenges and economic crisis. Hard-hitting questions about basic needs, consumption levels, capitalist surplus, and the environmental commons that have been suppressed in the language of ‘cohesion’ and ‘inclusion’ are beginning to surface.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. (2009) Socially Creative Thinking: or how experimental thinking creates ‘other worlds’.
Also presented at the Katarsis conference, 2008.
The Nitty Gritty of Creating Alternative Economies
JK Gibson-Graham
Amidst widespread concern about “the economy”, this paper explores how academic researchers can contribute to the work underway to create environmentally orientated and socially just economies. We offer the diverse economies framework as a technique with which to cultivate ethical economies.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. and Roelvink, G. 2010, The Nitty Gritty of Creating Alternative Economies, Social Alternatives, Volume 30, Number 1, 2011, pp. 29-33.
A Feminist Project of Belonging for the Anthropocene
JK Gibson-Graham
At the core of J.K. Gibson-Graham’s feminist political imaginary is the vision of a decentralized movement that connects globally dispersed subjects and places through webs of signification. We view these subjects and places both as sites of becoming and as opportunities for belonging. But no longer can we see subjects as simply human and places as human-centered. The ‘arrival’ of the Anthropocene has thrown us onto new terrain.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2010, A feminist project of belonging for the Anthropocene, Gender, Place and Culture - A Journal of Feminist Geography, Volume 18, Number 1, February 2011 , pp. 1-21(21).
Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
Post Developmental Possibilities for Local and Regional Development
JK Gibson-Graham
A post-development approach to world-making has arisen from a critique of the idea that development, especially economic development, is yoked to capitalist growth. This approach extends the long tradition of critique that has accompanied the hegemonic rise of a mainstream development project focused on the „problem‟ of less developed regions of the world. As we see it, the challenge of post-development is not to give up on development, but to imagine and practice development differently. Thus post-development thinking does not attempt to represent the world “as it is,” but the world “as it could be.”
J.K. Gibson-Graham (2010) 'Post-Development Possibilities for Local and Regional Developmen'. in Pike, A., Rodriguez-Pose, A., Tomaney, J., (eds) Handbook of Local and Regional Development, London: Routledge.
Building community-based social enterprises in the Philippines
Katherine Gibson, Community Economies Collective
Community-based social enterprises offer a new strategy for people-centred local economic development in the majority „developing‟ world. In this chapter we recount the stories of four social enterprise experiments that have arisen over the last five years from partnerships between communities, NGOs and municipal governments in the Philippines, and university based researchers from Australia.
Community Economies Collective and Gibson, K. 2008, Building community-based social enterprises in the Philippines: diverse development pathways,
Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, September 2008.
Also in A. Amin (ed.), The Social Economy: International Perspectives on Economic Solidarity. London: Zed Press, 2009.
Writing in the Margins: Gen Y and the (im)possibilities of 'Understanding China'
Kelly Dombroski
In response to the concern expressed by some senior Chinese Studies academics over young scholars 'deserting to the disciplines', Kelly suggests that Gen Y are less interested in 'understanding China' and more interested in interdisplinary, culturally engaged (yet cross-cultural and collective) thinking for a new and better world - of which China is an important part.
Dombroski, K. 2011. Writing in the Margins: Gen Y and the (im)possibilities of 'understanding China'. China Studies Association of Australia Newsletter.
Occupy! Connect! Create! Imagining Life Beyond 'The Economy'
Ethan Miller
Inspired by and written for the global #Occupy Movement, this text is part theory, part strategy and part call-to-action for the immediate and long-term work of identifying and seizing spaces of democratic practice (occupy!), linking them together in networks of mutual support and recognition (connect!), and drawing on our collective strength to actively create new ways of meeting our needs and making our livings (create!).
Ethan Miller. 2011. Occupy! Connect! Create! Imagining Life Beyond "The Economy." Grassroots Economic Organizing.
Embodying Research: Maternal bodies, fieldwork, and knowledge production in Northwest China
Kelly Dombroski
Using story and analysis, this paper explores the role of my (maternal) body in producing ethnographic knowledge, re-envisioning ethnographic fieldwork as an embodied relational engagement with a 'site' or 'space' where a multiplicity of trajectories converge.
Dombroski, K. 2011. 'Embodying Research: Maternal bodies, fieldwork, and knowledge production in Northwest China'. Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. 7(2): 19-29.
Cooperation, Surplus Appropriation, and the Law’s Enjoyment
Stephen Healy
This paper explores the performative effects of law legal incoporation in the context of worker cooperatives internally governed through consensus, concluding that this representational disjuncture has particular effects on cooperative subjectivity.
Healy, S., 2011. “Cooperation, Surplus Appropriation, and the Law’s Enjoyment,” Rethinking Marxism 23(3): 364-370.
Business as Usual or Economic Innovation?: Work, Markets and Growth in Community and Social Enterprises
Jenny Cameron
This paper explores the different and diverse economic practices that two Community Supported Agriculture initiatives use to enact their ethical commitments. The paper considers what this means for current government support for social and community enterprises.
Cameron, J. 2010, Forthcoming. Business as usual or economic innovations? work, markets and growth in community enterprises, Third Sector Review 16(2).
Enjoyment as an Economic Factor: Reading Marx with Lacan
Yahya M. Madra
This paper takes issue with economic discourses that present excessive greed as the central cause of economic crises. We argue that this focus on greed as the catalyst (when harnessed “appropriately”) or the enemy of social order keeps the public debate from deliberating on the particular modes of enjoyment (jouissance) which both shore up and destabilize the dynamics of production, appropriation, distribution and consumption under capitalism. We produce an analysis of the latest crisis of US capitalism that steers away not only from the theoretical humanist categories like "greed", but also from the residual reproductionism that continues to silently inform certain Lacanian analyses.
Madra, Y. M. and C. Özselçuk. Forthcoming 2010. Enjoyment as an Economic Factor: Reading Marx with Lacan, Subjectivity 3(3).
Collective Action and the Politics of Affect
Gerda Roelvink
This article examines the force of affect in collective action transforming the economy. I draw on my experience at the 2005 World Social Forum to illustrate the operation of affect in collective action.
Roelvink, G. Forthcoming. Collective action and the politics of affect, Emotion, Space and Society.
Cultivating citizen-subjects through collective praxis: organised gardening projects in Australia and the Philippines
Ann Hill, K Hobson
In this chapter we discuss empirical evidence of communal gardening projects through a 'realist governmentality' approach.
An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene
Gerda Roelvink, JK Gibson-Graham
Faced with the daunting prospect of global warming and the apparent stalemate in the formal political sphere, this paper explores how human beings are transformed by, and transformative of, the world in which we find ourselves.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. and G. Roelvink. 2010. An economic ethics for the Anthropocene, Antipode 41(1), 320-346.
Traversing Fantasies, Activating Desires: Economic Geography, Activist Research and Psychoanalytic Methodology
Stephen Healy
This article reviews the growing body of literature produced by geographers who make use of psychoanalytic theory in the course of their research, before considering how Left Lacanian theory was deployed in diverse economies research.
Healy, S., 2010. “Traversing Fantasies, Activating Desires: Economic Geography, Activist Research and Psychoanalytic Methodology,” Professional Geographer, 62(4): 496-506.
Rethinking rural transformation
Katherine Gibson, A Cahill, D Mckay
This paper draws on ecological ideas to rethink the dynamics of rural economic transformation in the Philippines.
K. Gibson, A. Cahill and D. McKay, 2010 Rethinking the dynamics of rural transformation in a Philippine municipality Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers volume: pages
Alternative Economies
Stephen Healy
This article reviews current literature within geography focused on alternative economies, a term that has contradictory effects in a discipline fixated on a realist imagining of the link between "capitalism" and state through neoliberal governance.
Healy, S.,2009. “Alternative Economies.” In Thrift, N. and Kitchin, R.,(eds) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Oxford: Elsevier).
A Postcapitalist Politics of Dwelling
Gerda Roelvink, JK Gibson-Graham
In this essay we draw on community economies and ecological humanities scholarship to tackle perhaps the most pressing question of our time—how do we live together with human and non-human others?
Roevlink, G. and J.K. Gibson-Graham. 2009. A postcapitalist politics of dwelling, Australian Humanities Review 46, 145-158.
Social Innovation for Community Economies
Gerda Roelvink, JK Gibson-Graham
In this chapter we stage a conversation between two innovative and longstanding projects, (1) the multiphase European-based research project on local social innovation that is represented in this book and (2) the Community Economies project which is engaged in rethinking economy through action research in Australia, the Philippines and the US.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. and G. Roelvink. 2009. Social innovation for community economies, in D. MacCallum, F. Moulaert, J. Hillier and S. Haddock (eds) Social Innovation and Territorial Development, Ashgate, Farnham, UK, 25-37.
Broadening the Horizons of Economy
Gerda Roelvink
This article draws on the work of Bruno Latour and Eve Sedgwick to examine the ways in which two documentary films are broadening the horizons of economy.
Roelvink, G. 2009. Broadening the horizons of economy. Jouranl of Cultural Economy 2(3), 325-344.
Caring for Ethics and the Politics of Health Care Reform
Stephen Healy
Informal caregiving frequently exacts a heavy psychic and physical toll on subjects that perform it while simultaneously figuring as a source of deep ethical meaning, raising questions about how to account for both dimensions in a politics of health care reform.
Healy, S. 2008. “Caring for Ethics and the Politics of Health Care Reform,” Gender, Place and Culture, 15(3): 267-284.
Building Community Economies: A Postcapitalist Project of Sustainable Development
Julie Graham, Stephen Healy
Explores how the idea of sustainable development might be transformed from an impossible dream (sabotaged at every turn by the force various identified as "capitalism", "the market," "modernization," and "development") into a realistic and attainble project for organizations and communities.
Healy. S. and J. Graham. 2008. Building Community Economies: A Postcapitalist Project of Sustainable Development, in D. Ruccio, ed, Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday. Routledge, New York, 291-314.
Diverse economies Kiribati
Katherine Gibson, M Pretes
Diverse economic possibilities in Kiribati
Gibson, K. and M. Pretes. 2008. Openings in the body of capitalism: capital flows and diverse economic posibilities in Kiribati, Asia Pacific Viewpoint 49(3), 381-391.
Diverse economies: performative practices for 'other worlds'
JK Gibson-Graham
Gibson-Graham, JK. 2008. Diverse economies: performative practices for 'other worlds', Progress in Human Geography 32(5), 613-632.
Independence from the Corporate Economy
Ethan Miller
This article discusses the power of telling different economic stories, and making connections between diverse initiatives, in the work of imagining and enacting more just and joyful community economies.
Miller, E. 2007. Independence from the Corporate Economy, Yes! Magazine Winter Issue.
Review Article: Performing the Market
Gerda Roelvink
This review artilce asks, how is it that Elyachar’s book, Markets of Dispossession, is able to contribute both to critical Marxist research documenting and analysing neoliberalism and also to a post-structural performative approach to market networks?
Roelvink, G. 2007. Review article: performing the market, Social Identities 13(1), 125-133.
Other Economies Are Possible
Ethan Miller
Discussion of the history and concept of "solidarity economy" and possible implementations in the U.S. context.
Miller, E. 2006. Other Economies Are Possible: Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity, Dollars and Sense 266(July/August).
Co-operative Subjects: Towards a Post-Fantasmatic Enjoyment of the Economy
Stephen Healy
This paper cowritten with Ken Byrne uses the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy to explore how people are attached to particular notions of economy, by way of contrast we explore how worker cooperators in Argentina's newly formed worker cooperatives experience their economic subjectivity.
Byrne, K. and S. Healy, 2006. “Co-operative Subjects: Towards a Post-Fantasmatic Enjoyment of the Economy,” Rethinking Marxism 18(2): 241-258.
Alternative Pathways to Community and Economic Development: The Latrobe Valley Community Partnering Project
Jenny Cameron, Katherine Gibson
Based on the Latrobe Valley Community Partnering Project, this paper introduces new ways of understanding disadvantaged areas, the economy, community and the research process in order to open up new ways of addressing social and economic issues.
Cameron, J. & Gibson, K. 2005. Alternative pathways to community and economic development: The Latrobe Valley community partnering project, Geographical Research 43(3), 274-85.
Focussing on the Focus Group
Jenny Cameron
Cameron, J. 2005. Focussing on the focus group, in Iain Hay (ed.) Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Chapter 8.
Participatory Action Research in a Poststructuralist Vein
Jenny Cameron, Katherine Gibson
This paper introduces a poststructuralist influenced participatory action research project seeking to develop new pathways for economic and community development in the context of a declining region.
Cameron, J. & Gibson, K. 2005. Participatory action research in a poststructuralist vein, Geoforum 36(3), 315-31.
Building Community Economies in Marginalised Areas
Jenny Cameron, Katherine Gibson
Elaborates an economic and social policy response to disadvantage that builds on the skills and ideas of marginalised groups.
Gibson, K. & Cameron. J. 2005. Building Community Economies in Marginalised Areas, in P. Smyth, T. Reddel & A. Jones (eds) Community and Local Governance in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 149-166.
Solidarity Economics: Building New Economies From the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out
Ethan Miller
A pamphlet discussing the concept of "solidarity economy" as a tool for linking and strengthening emerging networks of cooperative economic projects. Written for use in community and popular education contexts.
Miller, E. 2005. Solidarity Economics: Building Other Economies from the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out, Greene, ME: JED Collective.
Enabling Ethical Economies: Cooperativism and Class
JK Gibson-Graham
Situates contemporary evaluations of the Îsuccessâ of Spainâs Mondragon cooperative complex within a tradition of debate about the politics of economic transformation and argues for the development of an economics of surplus that can guide ethical decisions in community economies.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2003. Enabling Ethical Economies: Cooperativism and Class, Critical Sociology 29(2), 123-161.
An Ethics of the Local
JK Gibson-Graham
Principles and practices for cultivating a local ethics of economic transformation.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2003. An Ethics of the Local, Rethinking Marxism 15(1), 49-74.
Feminising the Economy
JK Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron
Exploring how recent feminist thinkers are attempting to add women into the economy.
Cameron J. and J. K. Gibson-Graham. 2003. Feminising the Economy: metaphors, strategies, politics, Gender, Place & Culture 10(2), 145-157.
Beyond Global vs Local: Economic Politics Outside the Binary Frame
JK Gibson-Graham
Offers a counter to the common denigration of local economic politics 'in the face of globalization'.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. 2002. Beyond global vs local: Economic politics outside the binary frame, in A. Herod and M. Wright (eds) Geographies of power: Placing scale, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 25-60.
Constructing the community economy: civic professionalism and the politics of sustainable regions
Julie Graham, Stephen Healy, Kenneth Byrne
Outlines the Rethinking Economy action research project in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, highlighting the role of academy-community partnerships in constructing community economies.
Graham, J., S. Healy and K. Byrne. 2002. Constructing the community economy: civic professionalism and the politics of sustainable regions, Journal of Appalachian Studies 8(1), 50-61.
Women and Economic Activism in the Asia Pacific Region
Katherine Gibson
How women's activism in the Philippines, China and Papua New Guinea is helping build and strengthen community economies.
Gibson, K. 2002. Women and economic activism in the Asia Pacific region, Development 45(1), 74-79.
Transforming communities: towards a research agenda
Jenny Cameron, Katherine Gibson
A review of Australian research and policy interventions aimed at communities and regions from the perspective of the Community Economies Project
Gibson, K. and J. Cameron. 2001.Transforming communities: towards a research agenda, Urban Policy and Research 19(1), 7-24.
Imagining and Enacting Non-Capitalist Futures
Outlines the 'politics of becoming' associated with desiring and building communal economies.
The Community Collective. 2001. Imagining and enacting non-capitalist futures, Socialist Review 28(3), 93-135.
Negotiating restructuring: a study of regional communities experiencing rapid social and economic change
Jenny Cameron, Katherine Gibson, A Veno
How two communities in regional Victoria, Australia are beginning to rethink their relationship to processes of economic restructuring.