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HUMAN RELATIONS
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/00187267231203096
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alternative organisations; capitalist and non-capitalist practices; diverse economies; labour; organisational ethnography; surplus food; use value; value relations
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This study examines how non-capitalist forms of alternative organizing can emerge through diverse economic practices and the use value of food and labor. It argues that these alternative economic, symbolic, and political relations sustain a non-capitalist parasitic alternative organizing for the community.
How do prevailing economic relations enable non-capitalist forms of alternative organising? Through an ethnographic case study of a free food store, I illustrate how an alternative organisational form emerges through the entanglement of diverse economic practices. By tracing the journey of the surplus food, I argue that the use value of food and labour plays a crucial role in mediating alternative economic, symbolic and political relations. Furthermore, the relationality of diverse economic practices reveals a non-capitalist parasitic alternative organising sustained by/for the community. This study contributes to the literature on alternative organising by introducing use value as a theoretical tool to untangle the intricate relationship between capitalist and non-capitalist economic practices from a critical political economy perspective.
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