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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on August 19, 2008
Journal of Economic Geography 2009 9(1):137-139; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn031
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Money and liberation: the micropolitics of alternative currency movements

Peter North

Money and liberation: the micropolitics of alternative currency movements
Peter North
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-8166-4962-4 (paperback). 240 pp. Price: $25.

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Whilst many so-called ‘relational’ economic geographers are pre-occupied with studies of economic globalization, the currently parlous state of the global financial system offers a salutary reminder that capitalism is not a natural, inevitable and immutable economic system. Moreover, globalization is not the only way of representing its economic geography. The concepts and categories economic geographers use to represent the economy in spatial terms are always open to negotiation and revision. If ever there was a single time or place for thinking about economic alternatives, including ways of representing economic geography outside the globalization narrative, here and now offers a suitably propitious moment to consider Peter North's excellent book on Money and Liberation. This book offers a passionate and yet appropriately sanguine investigation into the alternative geographies of economies. It amounts to a significant contribution to rethinking the economy outside of the pre-given relational narrative frameworks of capital flows and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Andrew E.G. Jonas

Department of Geography, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK


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