This chapter examines arguments around why some subaltern currency networks can be
thought of as resistant, as' alternative'to contemporary capitalist credit money within a …

In the social sciences there has been much exciting and informative work on farmers'
markets and this paper contributes to this literature by considering how the place of farmers' …

Very few studies have examined the reasons consumers attend Australian Farmers' Markets.
This empirical study uses four benefits, articulated in the Australian Farmer's Market …

Alternative food networks (AFNs) are the focus of an 'explosive growth'of research in Europe
(Goodman 2004), and the term covers a wide range of activities, from food banks …

In this paper I look at a farm that diversified its business and within this process bought a
secondhand sausage vacuum filler. I do this in order to question how this machine came to …

In recent years, researchers across the social sciences have studied a range of so-called
alternative economic and political practices. Such alternatives are understood as spaces …

Alternative'food systems (AFS), understood as assemblages of agri-food related production,
exchange and consumption activities, often characterised by increased physically and/or …

This thesis is an ethnomusicological study of the ways in which music creates a sense of
community at two North Carolina farmers markets: the Old Salem Cobblestone Farmers …