AbstractDiverse economies approaches are place-based, centring an approach that ‘starts from where we are’ in fostering existing practices for more just and ecological economies. However, place is more than just the background on which we perform economies. This session will reflect on the ways in which diverse economies research conceptualises place. It will explore themes of place, land, boundaries, to ask what a focus on place means for geographies of responsibility and care. Examples of topics of papers include making sense of the site-specific politics of universities as more than producers of knowledge and their relationship to the city in which they are situated. Relationships to land in co-operatives, and explicitly place-based approaches to transformation such as bioregioning. We seek to invite others to reflect on where politics of space manifests in their work.Language: English with potential of Portuguese and Spanish if needed.
