Dr Terry Leahy is a conjoint lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
The site is called “gift economy” because that is the name of Terry’s favourite utopian vision and these writings all relate to that in one way or another. So it is about strategies for change, how to get to a better future and how to think about what we are doing now. More specific topics are environmental issues and environmentalism, permaculture, sustainable agriculture, social theory, feminism, ecofeminism, and the meanings of popular media.
On the face of it, the gift economy seems like a crazy anarchist delusion. Yet sooner or later, we will come to see that it is the only thing that can actually work. Anarchist strategies come in two basic shapes and sizes. One is to live now like we would like to live after the revolution. The other is to cobble together hybrids of the gift economy and capitalism. Both are inevitable.
Terry Leahy
School of Humanities and Social Science
University of Newcastle
University Drive
Callaghan
NSW 2308
Australia
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