Geography

Assembling community economies

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This article advances a framework for the study of community economies as assemblages constituted and shaped by three primary dynamics: relations, resources and constraints, and processes of stabilization and destabilization. Drawing on diverse and community economies scholarship, assemblage theory and actor-network theory, we develop a framework that will contribute significantly to understandings of the emergence of community economies and the strategies that make them more resilient and sustainable. The conceptual framework is illustrated through a case study from Turkey’s Kurdish region – a women’s cooperative that remained resilient in the face of armed conflict and political violence.

Publication Title

Progress in Human Geography

Publication Date

2021

Volume

45

Issue

1

First Page

49

Last Page

69

ISSN

0309-1325

DOI

10.1177/0309132519884630

Keywords

actor-network theory, alternative economies, assemblage theory, community economies, relations, resources and constraints, stabilization and destabilization

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