- Title
- Community economies
- Creator
- Cameron, Jenny; Lyne, Isaac
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003017653-65
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- A community economies approach is concerned with creating post-capitalist worlds.1 In this approach, these worlds are understood as already existing. In place of the refrain ‘another world is possible,’ a community economies approach says ‘another world is already here’ – but these worlds are hard to detect because of the dominant Western way of understanding economies and societies. Thus, a community economies approach aims to seek out and strengthen already existing post-capitalist worlds. This involves community economies scholars using action research methods to work with community-based partners to help make post-capitalist activities more visible, and then to devise ways and means to build on and strengthen these activities. In this chapter, we demonstrate this community economies approach by discussing three development projects in the Asia-Pacific region. These projects are characterized by attentiveness to local conditions and to local values and aspirations. Thus, a community economies approach to doing development differently starts by acknowledging the local context and valuing the diverse economic activities and possibilities that are already present.
- Subject
- post-capitalist worlds; economies; societies; community-based
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1475789
- Identifier
- uon:49652
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781003017653
- Language
- eng
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