1st Edition

Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis Practices, Politics and Possibilities

Edited By Anthony Ince, Sarah Marie Hall Copyright 2018
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The ‘new sharing economy’ is a growing phenomenon across the Global North. It claims to transform relationships of production and consumption in a way that can improve our lives, reduce environmental impacts, and reduce the cost of living. Amidst various economic, environmental, and other crises, this message has strong resonance. Yet, it is not without controversy, and there have been heated... Read more


Foreword



By Clive Barnett



Chapter 1. Introduction: Sharing Economies in Times of Crisis



By Sarah Marie Hall and Anthony Ince





Part 1: Sharing In and Through Crisis



Chapter 2. ‘It feels connected in so many ways’: circulating seeds and sharing garden produce



By Laura Pottinger



Chapter 3. Malleable homes and mutual possessions: caring and sharing in extended family households as a resource for survival



By Chris Gibson, Natascha Klocker, Erin Borger and Sophie-May Kerr



Chapter 4. Reciprocity in Uncertain Times: Negotiating Giving and Receiving Across Time and Place Among Older New Zealanders



By Juliana Mansvelt



Chapter 5. Relationships, reciprocity and care: alcohol, sharing and ‘urban crisis’



By Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine and Sarah L. Holloway





Part 2: Sharing, the Economy and Sharing Economies



Chapter 6. Home for Hire: How the sharing economy commoditises our private sphere



By Paula Bialski



Chapter 7. ‘Hand-me-down’ Childrenswear and the Middle-class Economy of Nearly New Sales



By Emma Waight



Chapter 8. Franchising the disenfranchised? The paradoxical spaces of food banks



By Nicola Livingstone



Chapter 9. Shared Moments of Sociality: Embedded Sharing within Peer-to-Peer Hospitality Platforms



By Katharina Hellwig, Russell Belk and Felicitas Morhart





Part 3: Alternative Sharingscapes



Chapter 10. Swimming against the tide: collaborative housing and practices of sharing



By Lucy Sargisson



Chapter 11. Just Enough to Survive: Economic citizenship in the context of Indigenous land claims



By Nicole Gombay



Chapter 12. Crisis

Biography

Anthony Ince is Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK. His primary research interests concern the everyday spatialities of political agency in relation to wider-scale social and economic processes. Previous and current research includes radical social movements, local labour market change and non-financial economies.





Sarah Marie Hall is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research sits in the broad field of geographical feminist political economy: understanding how socio-economic processes are shaped by gender relations, lived experience and social difference.