Making Other Worlds Possible

Gerda Roelvink is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at the University of Western Sydney.Kevin St. Martin is associate professor of geography at Rutgers University. J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and the late Julie Graham, feminist political economists and economic geographers based at the University of Western Sydney and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, respectively.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Economic Politics for Our TimesKevin St. Martin, Gerda Roelvink, and J. K. Gibson-Graham1. A Fishery for the Future: The Midcoast Fishermen’s Association and the Work of Economic Being-in-CommonRobert Snyder and Kevin St. Martin2. Enterprise Innovation and Economic Diversity in Community Supported Agriculture: Sustaining the Agricultural CommonsJenny Cameron3. Performing Economies of Care in New England Time Bank and Buddhist CommunityKaren Werner4. Biofuels, Ex-felons, and Empower, a Worker-Owned Cooperative: Performing Enterprises DifferentlyStephen Healy5. Creating Spaces for Communism: Postcapitalist Desire in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Western MassachusettsYahya M. Madra and Ceren ÖzselÇuk6. Nature’s Diverse Economies: Reading Political Ecology for Economic DifferenceSarah A. Moore and Paul Robbins7. Situating Wild Product Gathering in a Diverse Economy: Negotiating Ethical Interactions with Natural ResourcesElizabeth S. Barron8. Diverse Economies, Ecologies, and Ethics: Rethinking Rural Transformation in the PhilippinesKatherine Gibson, Amanda Cahill, and Deirdre McKay9. Performing Posthumanist Economies in the AnthropoceneGerda Roelvink10. International Migration and the Global Household: Performing Diverse Economies on the World StageMaliha Safri and Julie Graham11. Post-Soviet Welfare and Multiple Economies of Households in MoscowMarianna Pavlovskaya12. The Politics of Mapping Solidarity Economies and Diverse Economies in Brazil and the Northeastern United StatesMaliha Safri13. How to Design Alternative Markets: The Case of Genetically Modified/Non–Genetically Modified CoexistenceMichel CallonContributorsIndex

"What makes the book so special is that each of authors know the communities they speak of and they write with real passion."-Antipode"Making Other Worlds Possible is an inspiring collection, reinforcing the importance of a diverse economies of perspective in search for “just sustainabilities” and urging us to (continue) think(ing) about processes of ethical decision-making, performativity, subjectivation, politics, the (perceived) divide between academia and activism and much more."-Local Environment