The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America: Informality, Materiality and Gender in Commerce' advances comparative knowledge and theoretical reflections on urban popular economies in Latin America by going beyond the lenses of so-called informal and street economies. It develops a...

This volume develops the concept of intimate economies by showing how contemporary historical archaeologists apply the perspective to their research. The chapters in this volume address intimate economies across multiple historical contexts, and through various case studies provide the reader...

"Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with...

Unmittelbar nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg haben sich mit der Urbanisierung in den Ländern der Dritten Welt neue Formen der Subsistenzwirtschaft entwickelt. Die Diskussion im Zusammenhang mit diesen postkolonialen Formen der Substistenzwirtschaft wird kontrovers geführt. Während einige Autoren...