J. K. Gibson-Graham
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J.K. Gibson-Graham is a pen name
Pen name
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 shared by feminist economic geographers Julie Graham and Katherine Gibson. Their first book The End of Capitalism (as we knew it) was published in 1996, followed by A Postcapitalist Politics in 2006. Julie Graham died on April 4th, 2010 from complications from cancer

Work

Their current work involves rethinking economy and re-visioning economic development. They and the community economies collective draw on political economy
Political economy
Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...

, poststructuralism, feminism
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

, and ongoing community-based research to pursue three major research directions:
  • Producing a language of the diverse economy that highlights the variety of transactions, forms of labor, class relations, types of enterprise, ecological relationships, and development dynamics in contemporary economies

  • Generating narratives, models and projects of non-capitalist and alternative capitalist development

  • Constructing and strengthening community economies in place through local action research.

Books

JK 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.

JK Gibson-Graham, S. Resnick and R. Wolff (eds), 2000, Class and Its Others, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 258pp.

JK 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.

JK Gibson-Graham, 2006, A Postcapitalist Politics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 360pp

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
    Rethinking Marxism
    Rethinking Marxism is a Marxist quarterly journal of economics, culture and society. It was launched in 1988 and since 2003 it has been published by Taylor and Francis....

    6(2) pp. 10-24. A shorter version was published in book Marxism in the Postmodern Age pp. 188-197

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