Is there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued followup to theirbook The End of Capitalism As We Knew It J. K. GibsonGraham offer alreadyexisting alt... » 

Is there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued followup to theirbook The End of Capitalism As We Knew It J. K. GibsonGraham offer alreadyexisting alternatives to a global capitalist order and outline strategies forbuilding alternative economies. A Postcapitalist Politics reveals aprolific landscape of economic diversityone that is not exclusively orpredominantly capitalistand examines the challenges and successes ofalternative economic interventions. GibsonGraham bring together politicaleconomy feminist poststructuralism and economic activism to foreground theethical decisions as opposed to structural imperatives that constructeconomic development pathways. Marshalling empirical evidence from localeconomic projects and action research in the United States Australia andAsia they produce a distinctive political imaginary with three intersectingmoments a politics of language of the subject and of collective action. Inthe face of an almost universal sense of surrender to capitalist globalizationthis book demonstrates that postcapitalist subjects economies and communitiescan be fostered. The authors describe a politics of possibility that can builddifferent economies in place and over space. They urge us to confront theforces that stand in the way of economic experimentation and to exploredifferent ways of moving from theory to action. J. K. GibsonGraham is thepen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham feminist economic geographerswho work respectively at the Australian National University in Canberra andthe University of Massachusetts Amherst. «