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The end of capitalism (As we knew it)<\/b><\/p>\n
The Community Economies project<\/a> seeks to contribute to the emergence of a political economy that is focused on practices of economic self-determination, on the idea that \u201canother world is possible\u201d, and that is dedicated to post-capitalist futures. It regroups activist-scholars who are working with the ideas put forth by Katherine Gibson<\/a> and the late Julie Graham, geographers experts in feminist political economy. These amazing scholars – better known under the pen name J.K. Gibson-Graham – took on the Marxist intellectual milieu in the 1990s with their revolutionary ideas.<\/p>\n In 1996, in the wake of conversations on the unstoppable forces of globalisation, J.K. Gibson-Graham published The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)<\/i><\/a>. <\/i>They put forth a controversial argument: that the intellectual left, and in particular the Marxist tradition, has contributed to a crisis in anti-capitalist circles by insisting that capitalism is a unitary, hegemonic, globalising, all-engulfing system. That the project to understand the beast has produced a beast. That this way of understanding economics is alienating. That this idea of capitalism as a hegemonic system interferes with the anti-capitalist imaginary. \u00a0In 2006, in a second book, A Postcapitalist Politics<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>they introduce their concept of a diverse economy and analyse attempts at taking back the economy across the globe. In 2013, they publish Take Back the Economy<\/i><\/a>, a popular education manual for communities to use in their efforts to do just that. Today, over 140 activist-scholars are networked in the the Community Economies Research Network.<\/p>\n If you missed the Beyond Capitalism<\/em> conference in 2016, follow this link to watch videos from the event:\u00a0http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/programme\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The end of capitalism (As we knew it) The Community Economies project seeks to contribute to the emergence of a political economy that is focused on practices of economic self-determination,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peqHG1-fo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18463,"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/18463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.economiesdecommunaute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}