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Following the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been significant interest among scholars and activists in alternative forms of organization that operate according to noncapitalist logic, including Alternative Consumer Cooperatives (ACCs).
Using the example of Turkey, where neoliberal economics combined with authoritarian politics formed conditions that have profound social and economic consequences, this book investigates ACCs as spaces for prefigurative food politics.
Offering a novel perspective on alternative forms of organizing, this book challenges the easy assumptions of what it means to be a scholar working on activism in the global north and shows how, through the foundational values of solidarity, reciprocity and responsibility, it is possible to create new and imaginative forms of politics and activism.
Beyza Oba is Professor of Organization Studies at İstanbul Bilgi University.
Zeynep Özsoy is Professor of Organization Studies and Dean of Business School at Altınbaş University.
Introduction: Experimenting with Direct Democracy
The Politics of Food: Alignment for Solidarity and Resistance
Against Neo-Liberalism and Authoritarianism: The Background to Food Politics in Turkey
Political Economy of Consumer Cooperatives in Turkey
Alternative Consumer Cooperatives in the Making of a Public Sphere
Experimenting with an Alternative to the Capitalist Food Provisioning System
The Governance of Alternative Consumer Cooperatives
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