1st Edition
Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge to Globalisation? A Case Study of Manchester's Local Currency Networks
By Peter North
Copyright 2006
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Over the past 15 years, local money networks, which are essentially trading networks using a community-created currency, have emerged in countries as far apart as Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the US, continental Europe and Japan. They range from Local Exchange Trading Schemes (UK), to Time Dollars (US), Green Dollars (New Zealand, Australia and Canada), Trading Circles... Read more
Contents: Introduction: money only has the value we give it?. Context and Theoretical Background: Developing a toolkit for understanding LETS: social movement approaches; Investigating social movements; 'Dirty Old Town': urban change in Manchester. Manchester's Alternative Currency Networks: LETS in Manchester; The politics of LETS; Self-analysis: do members see LETS as a social movement?; Transformation: LETS and economic development; LETS and the inner city; Explorations in Heterotopia: the micropolitics of money, work and community. Conclusions: Conclusion: the long term trajectory of LETS; Index.
Biography
Peter North
