Interrogating alterity: alternative economic and political spaces

Alternative ways of thinking, analysing and performing economic geographies have become increasingly significant in recent years, partly due to the recent financial crisis, which has had social and political consequences throughout the world.

Yet there is a danger that the debate about alternatives may become simply a way of fixing global capitalism in its present crisis-ridden form.

Instead, the analysis of alternative economic spaces must continue to offer a critique of the very notion of capitalism as a universal, if variable, set of social relations.