Work
Their current work involves rethinking economy and re-visioning economic development. They and the community economies collective draw onSignificance
J. K. Gibson-Graham have provided significant contributions to understandings of community economies and economic geography. In both ''A Postcapitalist Politics'' and ''The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It),'' Gibson-Graham "propose to construct a new 'language of economic diversity'"http://www.dwrl.utexas.edu/orgs/e3w/volume-9-spring-2009/cultures-of-global-economics/anthony-fassi-on-a-postcapitalist-politics Anthony Fassi on "A Postcapitalist Politics", E3W Review of Books that will contribute to our understandings of possible economic structures. They use a Marxist analysis of capitalism but they argue that capitalism is overdetermined and that there are many non-capitalist economic practices that exist alongside it. Based on this insight, they elaborate a "politics of possibility" that explores alternatives to exploitative economic practices. As one reviewer notes, Gibson-Graham "rejects the idea that capitalist economies are tightly organized systems" and instead presents the economy as consisting of "many different undertakings, only some of which cluster around market transactions." In 1996, Gibson-Graham popularized and furthered discussion on a concept coined "capitalocentrism":This term refers to the dominant representation of all economic activities in terms of their relationship to capitalism—as the same as, the opposite to, a complement of, or contained within capitalism. Our attempts to destabilize the hegemony of capitalocentrism have included a number of theoretical strategies: 1) production of different representations of economic identity, and 2) development of different narratives of economic development.JK Gibson-Graham, 1996, ''The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy'', Oxford UK and Cambridge USA: Blackwell PublishersTheir work focuses on moving beyond a "capitalocentric" viewpoint and recognizing the wide range of economic institutions that co-exist within a given social formation.
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* J. K. Gibson-Graham, 1996, ''The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy'', Oxford UK and Cambridge USA: Blackwell Publishers, 299pp. * J. K. Gibson-Graham, S. Resnick and R. Wolff (eds), 2000, ''Class and Its Others'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 258pp. * J. K. Gibson-Graham, S. Resnick and R. D. Wolff (eds), 2001, ''Re/presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism'', Durham NC and London: Duke University Press. 319pp. * J. K. Gibson-Graham, 2006, ''A Postcapitalist Politics'', Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 360pp * Gibson-Graham, J. K., Cameron, J. & Healy, S., 2013, ''Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Articles
*J. K. Gibson-Graham. (1993) ''Waiting for the Revolution, or How to Smash Capitalism while Working at Home in Your Spare Time''. in Rethinking Marxism 6(2) pp. 10–24. A shorter version was published in bookSee also
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