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.

`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

• Introduction - Andrew Leyshon and Roger LeeAlternative Economic GeographiesThe Alterity of the Social Economy - Ash Amin, Angus Cameron and Ray HudsonAlternative Financial Spaces - Duncan Fuller and Andrew E G JonasAlternative Retail Spaces - Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson and Kate BrooksAlternative Work Spaces - Andrew LincolnAlternative Employment Spaces - Colin C Williams and Jan WindebankAlternative Exchange Spaces - Colin C Williams, Theresa Aldridge and Jane TookeAlternative Lifestyle Spaces - Jeffrey JacobConclusions - Roger Lee and Andrew LeyshonRe-Making Geographies and the Construction of `Spaces of Hope′