Interrogating alterity : alternative economic and political spaces / edited by Duncan Fuller, Andrew E.G. Jonas, and Roger Lee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Editorial Introduction; Editorial Postscript; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Acronyms and Key Concepts; PART I On Alternatives and Diversity; 1 'Alternative' This, 'Alternative' That ... : Interrogating Alterity and Diversity; PART II Alternative Spaces of Finance, Production and Innovation; 2 The Longevity of Alternative Economic Practices: Lessons from Alternative Currency Networks; 3 Alterity's Geographies: Socio-territoriality and Difference in Islamic Banking and Finance.

4 Finding Alterity in Innovation or Finding Innovation in Alterity?5 Mutual Dependency, Diversity and Alterity in Production; 6 On the Alternativeness of Alternative Food Networks: Sustainability and the Co-production; PART III Alternative Markets and Spaces of Consumption; 7 How Fair is Fair Enough? Negotiating Alterity and Compromise Within the German Fair Trade Movement; 8 On Not Keeping up with the Joneses: Is it 'Alternative' Not to Shop?; 9 'Something D.

This important book brings together critical analyses of alterity from across the social sciences and humanities, refining and advancing what alternative economies and polities are, how they are formed, what difficulties and problems they face, and how they might be sustained. A central theme is the need to examine critically both the material contexts and the conceptual categories deployed in the making of alternative economies.