Alternative Economic Spaces

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. Roger Lee is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He is an economic geographer interested in the connections and contradictions between the presumed hard logics of economy and their socio-cultural practice and in the possibilities for progressive change that might ensue from the latter.

Introduction - Andrew Leyshon and Roger Lee Alternative Economic Geographies The Alterity of the Social Economy - Ash Amin, Angus Cameron and Ray Hudson Alternative Financial Spaces - Duncan Fuller and Andrew E G Jonas Alternative Retail Spaces - Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson and Kate Brooks Alternative Work Spaces - Andrew Lincoln Alternative Employment Spaces - Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank Alternative Exchange Spaces - Colin C Williams, Theresa Aldridge and Jane Tooke Alternative Lifestyle Spaces - Jeffrey Jacob Conclusions - Roger Lee and Andrew Leyshon Re-Making Geographies and the Construction of `Spaces of Hope'

`A hopeful but nonetheless hard-hitting analysis of alternative economic spaces proliferating in the belly of the capitalist beast. In this book Leyshon, Lee and Williams convene fascinating studies of exchange, enterprise, credit and community. They invite us onto a new and promising discursive terrain where we can analyze, criticize and above all recognize actually existing economies of diversity in the wealthy countries of the West' - J K Gibson-Graham, Australian National University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst "An excellent, timely, and provocative book-a must-read for students of economic and social geography. This book examines a wide range of alternative economic spaces from retail and finance to life style. All of the chapters are, without exception, well written, and many are based on detailed empirical research, often using innovative comparative case studies along with other methods." -- Padraig Carmody, Department of Geography "An excellent text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course in economic geography or the other social sciences." -- Julie Graham