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Diverse economies: performative practices for `other worlds'Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia, katherine.gibson{at}anu.edu.au, Department of Geosciences, Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA, graham{at}geo.umass.edu How might academic practices contribute to the exciting proliferation of economic experiments occurring worldwide in the current moment? In this paper we describe the work of a nascent research community of economic geographers and other scholars who are making the choice to bring marginalized, hidden and alternative economic activities to light in order to make them more real and more credible as objects of policy and activism. The diverse economies research program is, we argue, a performative ontological project that builds upon and draws forth a different kind of academic practice and subjectivity. Using contemporary examples, we illustrate the thinking practices of ontological reframing, re-reading for difference and cultivating creativity and we sketch out some of the productive lines of inquiry that emerge from an experimental, performative and ethical orientation to the world. The paper is accompanied by an electronic bibliography of diverse economies research with over 200 entries.
Key Words: ethical practice • knowledge commons • ontological reframing • performativity • scholar activism • thinking practices.
This version was published on October
1, 2008 Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 32, No. 5,
613-632 (2008) This article has been cited by other articles:
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