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There is burgeoning interest in the role of infrastructures as performative socio-technical systems that shape urban life. In this paper, we make visible an often-hidden and diverse infrastructure of care, the Community Food Provisioning Initiative (CFPI) sector. We discuss CFPIs as often hidden, yet vital infrastructures of care. Drawing on research on the CFPI sector in Sydney, Australia, we attend to the diverse ways in which CFPIs are governed, the materialities that constitute them and the diverse economic practices that support them. Our work makes visible the spatial extensiveness of CFPIs across the city, the ways in which caring practice is made possible by 'things', and the diverse enterprises, transactions, labour, property and finance that constitute the diverse economies of CFPIs. We couple our work developing a typology of community food provisioning, GIS mapping and an overview of the diverse economy of CFPIs with empirical examples from three CFPIs. Throughout the paper we highlight how CFPIs are diverse and vital infrastructures of care that contribute to people's ability to survival well in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artigo tem como objeto de estudo seis mapas produzidos em Portugal e na Catalunha, enquanto dispositivos comunicativos de outros mundos possíveis. Assumindo a crescente importância dos mapas digitais na sociedade em rede, queremos contribuir para entender mais sobre o seu papel na edificação de alternativas à economia dominante em tempos de crises sistémicas. Que aprendizagens surgem dos mapas que propõem desvios dos roteiros capitalistas? Que entendimentos nos trazem quer sobre os próprios mapas, quer sobre os modos de mapear e as desejadas alternativas? Mais do que explorar os mapas como produto, procura-se contribuir para a compreensão das forças intersticiais da sua pré-produção, produção e reprodução. À luz das teorias dos comuns, são auscultadas dinâmicas de mapeamento colaborativo de economias diversas: diversas quanto às suas políticas de conhecimento, quanto às suas formas de governança e participação e, logo, quanto ao modo de manusear as tecnologias digitais. O objeto de estudo define-se e une-se, na sua variedade, pelas ideias de coletivo e de comum. Os dados provêm da observação direta de mapas e de entrevistas feitas aos intervenientes. A análise é predominantemente qualitativa e visa organizar constatações e desafios relevantes, extrapoláveis a partir dos testemunhos, práticas e objetos observados.

This paper's object of study focuses on six maps produced in Portugal and Catalonia as communication devices of other possible worlds. Assuming the growing importance of digital maps in the network society, we want to contribute to learning more about their role in constructing alternatives to the dominant economy in times of systemic crisis. What lessons emerge from maps that propose deviations from capitalist roadmaps? What understandings do they provide about the maps themselves, ways of mapping, and the hoped-for alternatives? Rather than exploring maps as a product, we seek to contribute to an understanding of the interstitial forces of their pre-production, production, and reproduction. In the light of the theories of the commons, the dynamics of collaborative mapping of diverse economies are explored: diverse in terms of their knowledge policies, modes of governance and participation and, therefore, in how they handle digital technologies. The object of study is defined and united, in its variety, by the ideas of collective and commons. The data comes from direct observation of maps and interviews with stakeholders. The analysis is predominantly qualitative and aims to organise relevant findings and challenges, which can be extrapolated from the observed testimonies, practices and objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo propone discutir las prácticas sociales, económicas, comunicativas y políticas de los Espacios de Capacitación y Reincorporación como producto del Acuerdo de Paz en Colombia y dentro de los mismos, comprender de manera participativa los discursos y las prácticas que configuran las subjetividades de los excombatientes, todo ello producto de la investigación “Subjetividades y economías comunitarias, un diálogo de experiencias en el Espacio Territorial de Capacitación y Reincorporación de Icononzo, Tolima”. A lo largo del país, estos espacios se han constituido en usinas de producción, laboratorios experimentales de nuevas formas de estar y habitar el mundo, todo un entramado que permite reconocer el proceso de reinserción de cientos de hombres y mujeres que revierten su propia historia.

In this article we address some findings and the research methodology in a Space for Training and Reincorporation, a territorial figure product of the Peace Agreement in Colombia. All within the framework of the research "Subjectivities and community economies, a dialogue of experiences in the Territorial Space of Training and Reincorporation of Icononzo, Tolima". Throughout the country, these spaces have become production plants, experimental laboratories for new ways of living and inhabiting the world, a whole framework that allows us to recognize the reinsertion process of hundreds of men and women who reverse their own history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The economic empowerment of women is emerging as a core focus of both economic development and gender equality programmes internationally. At the same time, there is increasing importance placed on measuring outcomes and quantifying progress towards gender and development goals. These trends raise significant questions around how well gender differences are understood, especially in economies dominated by the informal sector and characterised by a highly gendered division of labour, as is the case in many Pacific countries. How well do existing international and national indicators of gender equality reflect the experiences and aspirations of Pacific women and men? What do concepts such as gender equality and economic empowerment mean in this geographical context? How might local attitudes and practices be identified and measured? In this paper, we draw on Boaventura De Sousa Santos’ call to recognise and value knowledges of the majority world that have been rendered either largely invisible or non-credible by mainstream development and human rights policy agendas. Reflecting on an action research project conducted with partner organisations in Fiji and the Solomon islands, we explore a more nuanced place-based approach to understanding and measuring gender equality and economic empowerment. This approach takes account of diverse economic practices, such as non-market transactions, and forms of non-cash exchange and unpaid labour, and recognises the imbalance in women’s and men’s household and care work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I use an intersectional diverse economies framework and weak theory to build knowledge about migrant Latinas' economic spaces in Chicago. Drawing on qualitative data, I demonstrate how multiple and dynamic identities are linked to economic practices. I show that Latina migrants are not limited to capitalist or noncapitalist forms of economic engagement within neoliberal structures or to single spaces within or outside ethnic economies. Their multiple and dynamic practices shifted, as did their identities and geographies. I captured a snapshot of one migrant Latina economic community and provide insights about the nature and scale of its activities as well as the opportunities, and obstacles it faces. I propose future research and policy resulting from seeing economies differently. What kinds of programs might support collective economies and migrant Latina crafts? How might we re-envision workforce development programs if we see economies differently? What kinds of creative campaigns and advocacy do we need with new kinds of economies? More data and reflection on the nature and scale of intersectional identities within migrant (and other) economic communities and the geoeconomic ramification within those communities is needed. Furthermore, I call for the imagination of new global forms and practices that respond to the crisis that the current economic structures are facing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since the election of Latin America's first indigenous president, Evo Morales, in 2005, Bolivia's ruling party, the ‘Movement Towards Socialism’, has nationalised resources and instituted a ‘post-neoliberal’ and ‘pluri-cultural’ constitution that emphasises the importance of recognising cultural, linguistic and economic plurality. This article explores gendered economic identities in this context via the case study of an informal trade that is explicitly excluded from this vision of development: the globally controversial used clothes trade (UCT). In Bolivia, political debate on the trade demonstrates gendered tensions inherent in the government's ‘post-neoliberal’ agenda of nationalisation, protection of cultural identity and the well-being of the poor in an increasingly liberalised and globalised market place. Working with women in the city of El Alto, this article examines how women's involvement in the UCT challenges understandings of identity and development in post-neoliberal Latin America and the dynamics involved in women's continued marginalisation from global economic and political processes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cities today are typically framed as sites of capitalist development, while the urban park is theorized as an indirect response to the emerging hegemony of industrial production in the nineteenth century. Yet, this historical framing tells us little about the process through which our notions of 'the city' and of 'nature' are produced, or how this knowledge affects the formation of urban people's identities. The discursive formation of the capitalist city can be traced to specific historical moments, one of which is the construction of urban parks during the mid- to late-nineteenth century, which I argue was instrumental in producing a new knowledge of the capitalist city by creating a boundary between the social space of the city and the natural space of the park. Using Philadelphia's Fairmount Park as a case study, I draw on archival photographs and annual park commission reports to explore the formation of park subjects during this period and shed light on diverse economic practices that were once widespread in and around the city but whose erasure was ultimately a prerequisite for the successful formation of an urban discourse organized around the construction of the city/nature boundary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Competing with the cartography of capitalism, undermining its power to fix resources as open to capitalist appropriation and space as enclosed, will require a cartography of the commons that makes visible community and commons processes; it will require a shift in strategy from explicating and defending existing commons to mapping spaces into which a commons future might be projected. The “Buffalo Commons” and a map-based project in New England fisheries link new spatial imaginaries with desires for and enactments of alternative economic initiatives. Each project rereads economic and environmental processes relative to the potential of the commons rather than the potential of capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]