Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I offer, here, a feminist vision of a global maternal gift economy and describe pathways to moving towards it from exactly where we currently are, both collectively and individually.
Cassie Chambers’s Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains, like Smarsh’s Heartland, considers the dignity and resiliency of poor working-class families in this region of America.
The idea that people may actually choose to cooperate with each other in managing important resources, and to reap their gains in nonmonetary forms, is “irrational” to economists.
•Sacred Economics: Chapter 17, Summary and Roadmap (Pt.18)
•A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse
•The End of Growth, Part 1
•The Limits of the Earth, Part 1: Problems
•Are social enterprises the future for libraries?
