Alternative Economies (Revised 2nd edition)

Stephen Healy
Intl Encyclopedia of Human Geography

This is a revised and updated version of "Alternative Economies" first published in 2009 in the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Human Geography. The article draws on more recent diverse economies scholarship to illustrate a performative, as opposed to a realist, description of "alternativeness".  Here alternative is understood in the context of the economy as an ontologically differentiated space, a space that is not organised by a singular logic, capitalist or otherwise. This has profound implications for the theory of change that informs diverse economies scholarly interventions.  

Suggested citation

Healy, S., 2020. Alternative Economies. In: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 1, Elsevier, pp. 111–117. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10049-6