Cooperation & Exchange
Sharing, reciprocity, gift economies, mutual aid, and trade.
An introduction
What happens between giving and receiving? Begin with the relationships around an exchange: trust, obligation, generosity, bargaining, and the possibility of refusing.
This subject brings cooperative trade, sharing, gifts, and mutual aid into the same conversation. The questions reach across communities and periods, asking how people organize exchange and what they expect from one another.
In the journal
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