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Department of Geography Economic Geography

Cultivating Alternative Geographies

  • San Andrés de Mixquic, excursion to a local “Chinampa”. Photo: Xavier Balaguer

  • Calafou, Eco-Industrial Post-Capitalist collective situated in Catalonia which is connected to alternative economies in the region. Photo: Xavier Balaguer

  • The history of Maize in Mexico, exhibition at the CIMMYT.  Photo: Xavier Balaguer

This research group pursues empirical and theoretical alternatives to mainstream frameworks of space, economy, and politics. Our focus spans the intersecting domains of alternative economies, commoning, critical agrarian studies, political ecology, and pesticide studies.

Group leader

Dr. Xavier Balaguer Rasillo

Group members

Dr. Nora Komposch
Jan Schwab
Antje Pfüller
Epifanía Arango Isaza

Belongs to the organizational unit

Economic Geography

Affiliation to the Research Clusters

Social, Cultural and Environmental Connections

Lives, Goods and Technologies in a Mobile World