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Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Huddy, Belinda |
| author2 | Daya, Shari |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13213 Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange Huddy, Belinda Daya, Shari Environment, Society and Sustainability Includes bibliographical references. The Cape Town Talent Exchange (CTTE) is a Community Exchange System operating locally in Cape Town, while allowing national and global exchanges to take place. Trading activity occurs between members of the community through an alternative currency, Talents. There are numerous incentives driving the participation of the community members. These include various political, social, economic, environmental and philosophical motivations. It is evident, however, that the members’ desires meet through the search for an alternative space where social interactions are experienced and social values are formed through economic activity. The construction of the CTTE as an alternative economy, that re¬‐introduces this social dimension into the economic sphere contributes to the movement away from the hegemonic, capitalist economy to one of heterogeneity. There are, however, tensions that lie in the overlapping nature of these systems, restricting the alterity and autonomy of the CTTE and emphasising the power and dominance of the mainstream economy. 2015-07-01T08:51:49Z 2015-07-01T08:51:49Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13213 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Environment, Society and Sustainability Huddy, Belinda Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange |
| title_full | Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange |
| title_fullStr | Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange |
| title_short | Exploring alternative values: the Cape Town talent exchange |
| title_sort | exploring alternative values the cape town talent exchange |
| topic | Environment, Society and Sustainability |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13213 |
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