Browsing All posts tagged under »empowerment«

Exploring Gender Divisions In A Community Currency System: The Case Of The Barter Network In Argentina

May 28, 2012

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This article aims to explore the ways in which Community Currency Schemes (CCS), as markets, are permeated by other influential social orders, in this case that of gender. The paper therefore looks at the way in which gender structures may be reproduced or reflected in these kinds of markets and how they sometimes acquire certain […]

Development at the Conjuncture of Feminism and Associationalism

May 23, 2012

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This article looks at whether or not Community Currency Systems form part of an alternative development agenda when analyzed through the lenses of feminism and associationalism. It begins by differentiating Alternative Development, as a static concept, from alternative development which is only comprehensible in its current context and form. The latter, according to the author, […]

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