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- Title
Geographies of exchange and circulation: alternative trading spaces.
- Authors
Hughes, Alex
- Abstract
This article focuses on the use of terms exchange and circulation in social science. Broadly, the terms exchange and circulation have been adopted in a wide variety of ways in the social sciences to understand all kinds of movements of goods, ideas, people and money, particularly in the context of a globalizing world. More specifically, political economic notions of capital circulation and commodity exchange have been revisited and reworked in order to gain critical insight into the changing geographies of trade, finance, retail, distribution and consumption. While much of the literature on forms of exchange and circulation has focused on the stretching out of economic and social networks in a global and neo-liberal context, and the power of corporate capital wielded through these networks, there has been a turn more recently to consider forms of exchange and circulation that present alternatives to these global capitalist networks. Understanding alternative organizational economies as spaces of hope, geographies of alternative exchange and circulation would appear to be influenced as much by a renewed political turn in economic geography as the oft-cited cultural turn.
- Subjects
SOCIAL sciences; DISTRIBUTION (Economic theory); ECONOMIC geography; SOCIAL groups; SOCIAL networks; CAPITALISM
- Publication
Progress in Human Geography, 2005, Vol 29, Issue 4, p496
- ISSN
0309-1325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1191/0309132505ph563pr