Radical Openings: Hegemony and the Everyday Politics of Community Economies

Title: Radical Openings: Hegemony and the Everyday Politics of Community Economies
Creator: Gordon, Rhyall
Relation: Rethinking Marxism Vol. 28, Issue 1, p. 73-90
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2015.1123007
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: What might an alliance between Gibson-Graham's concept of community economy and Laclau and Mouffe's concept of hegemony generate for theories and practices of everyday postcapitalist politics? This essay theorizes a shared space between these concepts, opening up new ground for politics. It provides an illustration of the dynamic of hegemony within a community economy through empirical work carried out with food-sovereignty collectives in the Asturias region of northern Spain. These collectives demonstrate economic practices that foreground our communality and interdependence while negotiating the exclusion that accompanies all politics. These food sovereignty economies demonstrate that when the concept of hegemony is applied at the site of everyday politics, new territory is created for enacting a community economy.
Subject: community economy; everyday politics; food sovereignty; hegemony; radical democracy
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451479
Identifier: uon:44201
Identifier: ISSN:0893-5696
Language: eng
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