Duncan Fuller - Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces

INTERROGATING ALTERITY

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Alternative Economic and Political Spaces

Edited by

DUNCAN FULLER
Northumbria University, UK

ANDREW E.G. JONAS
Hull University, UK

and

ROGER LEE
Queen Mary University of London, UK

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Interrogating alternity : alternative economic and political spaces. -- (Ashgate economic geography series)

1. Radical economics. 2. Space in economics. 3. Economic geography. 4. Human geography.

I. Series II. Fuller, Duncan, 1972- III. Jonas, Andrew E. G., 1961- IV. Lee, Roger, 1945
330.90511-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fuller, Duncan, 1972

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

p. cm. -- (Ashgate economic geography series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-7341-5 (hardback)

1. Radical economics. 2. Community development. 3. Space in economics. I. Jonas, Andrew E. G., 1961- II. Lee, Roger, 1945- III. Title.

HB97.7.F85 2010
330.1--dc22

2010005236

ISBN 978-0-7546-7341-5 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-3155-8963-3 (ebk)

Dedicated to

Duncan Fuller
19722008

who was the inspiration for this book

and to

Julie Graham
19452010

who showed the way and offered so much support and guidance in completing it

Duncan Fuller, Andrew E.G. Jonas and Roger Lee

Andrew E.G. Jonas

Peter North

Michael Samers and Jane Pollard

Megan K. Blake

John Bryson and Michael Taylor

Owain Jones, James Kirwan, Carol Morris, Henry Buller, Robert Dunn, Alan Hopkins, Fran Whittington and Jeff Wood

Dorothea Kleine

Helen Jarvis

Keith Spiller

Lewis Holloway, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Laura Venn and Helena Tuomainen

Chris Kjeldsen and Jan Holm Ingemann

Gill Seyfang

Len Arthur, Tom Keenoy, Molly Scott Cato and Russell Smith

Doug Lionais

Stuart Hodkinson

Katharine McKinnon

Roger Lee

Len Arthur has been politically engaged as a socialist, direct action activist and trade unionist since 1963. Over the last 10 years he has been involved in the cooperative movement and making a contribution to research and policy development in the area. He is a retired academic but remains an active sociologist and social historian.

Megan K. Blake is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests concern the intersections of practice and everyday life. With particular reference to innovation and entrepreneurship, she has published (alone and with Susan Hanson) several research papers, book chapters and most recently a book titled: It Takes a Village: Womens Entrepreneurship, Resource Networks, and Place (VDM Verlag, 2008).

John R. Bryson is Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on understanding organisational change and regional economies and specifically expertise-intensive firms and regional development. His most recent books include Service Worlds: People, Organisations, Technologies (Routledge, 2004) and The Handbook of Service Industries (Elgar, 2009).

Henry Buller is Professor of Rural Geography at Exeter. He is editor of the international rural social science journal Sociologia Ruralis and Chair of the IBG/RGS Rural Geography Study Group. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology. He is author and editor of over 100 books, articles and research reports on European rural change, development and policy, environmental politics, agro-food and animal/nature geographies.

Rosie Cox is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has a long-standing interest in paid domestic work, migration and consumption in the home. She is author of The Servant Problem: Paid Domestic Work in a Global Economy (I.B. Tauris, 2006) and with colleagues Reconnecting Producers, Consumers and Food: Exploring Alternatives (Berg, 2008) and is co-editor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (I.B. Tauris, 2007).

Elizabeth Dowlers recent research includes food and nutrition in mediating inequalities in health; defining poverty; consumers identities and perceptions of risk and trust; experiences of reconnected relationships between consumers and food producers; and evaluation of food policy interventions at local and national levels. Her training, experience and research collaborations cut across the natural and social sciences. She is a member of the Food Ethics Council, and UK National Heart Forum, and Professor of Food and Social Policy in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.