Untangling alternative organising within and beyond capitalist relations: The case of a free food store
通过对一家免费食品店的民族志研究，探讨剩余食品的使用价值如何调解替代性经济、象征和政治关系，揭示一种由社区维持的非资本主义寄生性替代组织形式。
How do prevailing economic relations enable non-capitalist forms of alternative organising? Through an ethnographic case study of a free food store, I illustrate how an alternative organisational form emerges through the entanglement of diverse economic practices. By tracing the journey of the surplus food, I argue that the use value of food and labour plays a crucial role in mediating alternative economic, symbolic and political relations. Furthermore, the relationality of diverse economic practices reveals a non-capitalist parasitic alternative organising sustained by/for the community. This study contributes to the literature on alternative organising by introducing use value as a theoretical tool to untangle the intricate relationship between capitalist and non-capitalist economic practices from a critical political economy perspective.