7 J. K. Gibson-Graham 1996 Blackwell <p>Why does the future (not to mention the present) seem to offer no hope of escape from capitalism? Ironically, the author argues, it is not the economic discourse of the right but primarily the socialist and Marxist traditions that have constituted capitalism as large, powerful, active, expansive, penetrating, systemic, self-reproducing, dynamic, victorious, and capable of conferring identity and meaning. What this has meant for left politics is the continual deferral of anticapitalist projects of social transformation and noncapitalist initiatives of economic innovation, since these presumably would have little chance of success in the face of a predominantly or exclusively capitalist economy.</p> <p>In this book J.K. Gibson-Graham explores the possibility of more enlivening modes of economic thought and action, outside and beyond the theory and practice of capitalist reproduction. Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist retheorizings of subjectivity and the body, and on anti-essentialist traces within Marxism, she takes on the many forms of capitalist representation to be found in theories of globalization, post-Fordist development, and contemporary urban space. She seeks (and finds) protean representations of capitalism not only in economic policy discourse but in the discursive practices of feminism and cultural studies and in left political practices. Challenging the vision of capitalism as necessarily and naturally hegemonic, J.K. Gibson-Graham liberates a space of economic difference, one in which a noncapitalist politics of economic invention might take root and flourish.</p> <h2>Contents</h2> <ul> <li>Strategies</li> <li>Capitalism and Anti-Essentialism: An Encounter in Contradiction </li> <li>Class And The Politics Of "Identity"</li> <li>How Do We Get Out Of This Capitalist Place</li> <li>The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse And The Body Economic</li> <li>Querying Globalization</li> <li>Post-Fordism As Politics</li> <li>Toward A New Class Politics Of Distribution</li> <li>"Hewers Of Cake And Drawers Of Tea"</li> <li>Haunting Capitalism: Ghosts On A Blackboard</li> <li>Waiting For The Revolution. . .</li> </ul> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557868638/rethinkingmar-20