In 1996 feminist economic geographer, political economist and collective author J.K. Gibson-Graham wrote of giving up on “waiting for the revolution.” Instead Gibson-Graham proposed to smash capitalism while working at home in her spare time. In the twenty years since writing The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy, Gibson-Graham and members of the Community Economies Collective have developed numerous strategies for taking back the economy for people and the planet. In this presentation, Katherine Gibson will review some of these strategies that link to economic experiments forging post-capitalist ways of being all over the world.

Katherine Gibson is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. She is an economic geographer with an international reputation for innovative research on economic transformation and over 30 years’ experience of working with communities to build resilient economies. As J.K. Gibson-Graham, the collective authorial presence she shares with the late Julie Graham (Professor of Geography, University of Massachusetts Amherst), her books include The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Blackwell 1996) and A Postcapitalist Politics(University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Her most recent books are Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities, co-authored with Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies, co-edited with Gerda Roelvink and Kevin St Martin (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and Manifesto For Living in the Anthropocene, co-edited with Deborah Bird Rose and Ruth Fincher (Punctum Press, 2015).

Sponsored by: The Border Collective Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop and the Marxisms Interdisciplinary Working Group