Social Exchange - 9781978829633

Social ExchangeBarter As Economic and Cultural Activism in Medelln, Colombia\nAuthor(s): Brian J. Burke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978829633, 978-1978829633\nSynopsis\nMoney occupies a powerful place in our lives it is a problem, a goal, and motivator, a measure of self-worth and national progress, and even an influence on how we relate to each other and to nature but what happens when communities start to reinvent money and markets? Over the last twenty-five years, grassroots activists in Medelln, Colombia, have used barter markets and community currencies as one strategy to re-weave a social fabric shredded by violence and to establish an economy founded on respect and reciprocity rather than exploitation. In Social Exchange, Brian J. Burke provides a deep ethnographic investigation of this activism and its effects. This story draws us into the cultural and material effects of capitalism a.