The End of Capitalism As We Knew It

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Pub. Date: 2006-03-24
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses toThe End of Capitalismand outline the economic research and activism they have been engaged in since the book was first published. "Paralyzing problems are banished by this dazzlingly lucid, creative, and practical rethinking of class and economic transformation." -Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong "Profoundly imaginative." -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, City University of New York "Filled with insights, it is clearly written and well supported with good examples of actual, deconstructive practices." -International Journal of Urban and Regional Research J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, feminist economic geographers who work, respectively, at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Author Biography

J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham, feminist economic geographers who work, respectively, at the Australian National University in Canberra and the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Table of Contents

Introduction to the New Edition: Ten Years On vii
Preface and Acknowledgments xxxvii
Chapter 1 Strategies 1(23)
Chapter 2 Capitalism and Anti-essentialism: An Encounter in Contradiction 24(22)
Chapter 3 Class and the Politics of "Identity" 46(26)
Chapter 4 How Do We Get Out of This Capitalist Place? 72(20)
Chapter 5 The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic 92(28)
Chapter 6 Querying Globalization 120(28)
Chapter 7 Post-Fordism as Politics 148(26)
Chapter 8 Toward a New Class Politics of Distribution 174(32)
Chapter 9 "Hewers of Cake and Drawers of Tea" 206(32)
Chapter 10 Haunting Capitalism: Ghosts on a Blackboard 238(13)
Chapter 11 Waiting for the Revolution... 251(15)
Bibliography 266(20)
Index 286

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