Community Economies

Researching Diverse Economies

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

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

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

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).

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

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.