Title Building dignified worlds : geographies of collective action / Gerda Roelvink

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016 ©20

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Description 1 online resource Series Diverse economies and livable worlds ; 1 Diverse economies and livable worlds ; 1. Contents Introduction: geographies of collective action -- The discontents of knowing neoliberalism -- Spatializing economic concerns -- Affective collective action -- Transforming markets -- Dignified humanity, dignified world -- Conclusion: doing research together -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are designing alternative economies. Contemporary collectives differ markedly from previous groups associated with revolutionary politics. Instead of assembling large groups of workers around labor issues, these new collectives creatively arrange diverse peoples, animals, natural environments, and technologies around economic concerns. Like older forms of leftist organizing, these collectives seek to bring about change. However, rather than working to overthrow and replace an underlying capitalist system with an equally totalizing alternative like socialism, they experiment with new forms of economic life. As Gerda Roelvink notes, current markets are better conceptualized as dynamic social networks open to intervention fey innovative social movements that do not simply protest but actively forge functional alternatives. Radical scholars have theorized social transformation as a performative act and have provided extensive analysis of how discourse shade the world through language and is materialized in bodies and practices. Until now through little has been written about the geographical nature of collective associations "performing" new worlds. Taking actor-network and performativity theories of action as starting points, Roelvink reveals how the relational and geographical nature of performative action is central to the ways in which hybrid collectives strive to create alternative economies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Social sciences -- Research. Globalization -- Social aspects Marketing -- Social aspects Economic development -- Social aspects. Organizational change. Social change. Social movements. Organizational Innovation social movements. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Economic development -- Social aspects Globalization -- Social aspects Marketing -- Social aspects Organizational change Social change Social movements Social sciences -- Research Form Electronic book LC no. 2015026040 ISBN 9781452951607 1452951608 0816676178 9780816676170 0816683174 9780816683178 9781452954240 1452954240

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