A Postcapitalist Politics

摘要

A Postcapitalist Politics (hereafter APP), represents the first book by Gibson-Graham since their widely cited feminist and poststructuralist account of The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): a Feminist Critique of Political Economy (TEoC; recently republished by University of Minnesota Press). The authors (a writing duo comprising Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham) describe their current and previous books as 'intricately interconnected and yet very different' (p. xi). Whereas TEoC played poststructuralist games with theory, APP represents a longer and more diverse set of learning experiences in which listening and collaborative research results in what the authors describe as a 'treatise on how to do economy differently' (p. xi). Grounded in participatory action research in Australia, the United States and the Philippines, as well as work in Spain, the book explores the ways in which expectations about the 'Economy' - which, following previous work by Gibson-Graham and others, is viewed as an historically constructed hegemonic discursive entity - can be diversified in both theory and practice. The book ends by endorsing a politics of economy where 'the personal and the spaces closest in' (p. xii) are reaffirmed as the basis for a diversified, postcapitalist identity politics and as the foundation for experiments in community diversity.