The Handbook of Diverse Economies

Economic diversity abounds in a more-than-capitalist world, from worker-recuperated cooperatives and anti-mafia social enterprises to caring labour and the work of Earth Others; from fair trade and social procurement to community land trusts, free universities and Islamic finance. The Handbook of Diverse Economies presents research that inventories economic difference as a prelude to building ethical ways of living on our dangerously degraded planet.

Organized into thematic sections, the Handbook moves from looking at diverse forms of enterprise, to labour, transactions, property, and finance as well as decentred subjectivity and diverse economies methodology. The contributing authors from twenty countries are all members of the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) and the cover artwork is by CERN member Ailie Rutherford.

‘Let us forget, just for a moment, “capitalism” and instead investigate the diversity of new forms of economic activities that are flourishing everywhere: this is the essential, energizing, message of J. K. Gibson-Graham, Kelly Dombroski and their colleagues. This innovative book must be absolutely put into all hands. It takes us on a long and rewarding journey around the world to explore ongoing experiences that all attempt to invent new ways of living together.’
– Michel Callon, Centre de Socologie de l'Innnovation, Mines ParisTech, France
 

The introduction is available free-of-charge, click here.

Pre-publication versions of the following chapters (in alphabetical order) are currently available on this website:

• Action Research for Diverse Economies (by Jenny Cameron and Katherine Gibson)
   
• Caring Labour: Redistributing Care Work (by Kelly Dombroski)
   
• Collectively Performed Reciprocal Labour: Reading for Possibility (by Katherine Gibson)
   
• Focusing on Assets: Action Research for a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace (by Leo Hwang)
   
• Framing Essay: The Diversity of Enterprise (by Jenny Cameron)
   
• Reading for Economic Difference (by J.K. Gibson-Graham)
   
• Visualizing and Analyzing Diverse Economies with GIS (by Luke Drake)

• Working with Indigenous Methodologies: Kaupapa Māori meets Diverse Economies (by Joanne Waitoa and Kelly Dombroski)