The Salt Spring dollar: toward a re-embedded economy

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dc.contributor.authorCowan, Maya
dc.contributor.supervisorRudnyckyj, Daromir
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-01T22:26:03Z
dc.date.available2019-05-01T22:26:03Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-05-01
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Salt Spring dollar is a community currency founded Salt Spring Island, a Gulf Islands community located in the Salish Sea between Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. Currency use in 2018, nearly two decades after its release in 2001, has declined but remains a means of devising alternatives to the dis-embedded market and environmental degradation, as well as a way of re-embedding social concerns and relations in the exchange of money. This thesis is a case study of this alternative currency and examines how it compares to other alternative currencies. It also examines the reasons the use of the Salt Spring dollar has declined since its inception. The Salt Spring dollar illustrates that monetary exchange and participation in the market is not merely an economic act but is also social and political. While the currency was designed with the purpose of promoting local production and exchange, it also was designed to ground money in community and social relations.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10829
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectanthropologyen_US
dc.subjecteconomic anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectsalt spring islanden_US
dc.subjectbritish columbiaen_US
dc.subjectethnographyen_US
dc.subjectgulf islandsen_US
dc.subjectmoneyen_US
dc.subjectcurrencyen_US
dc.subjectcommunity currencyen_US
dc.subjectlocal economyen_US
dc.titleThe Salt Spring dollar: toward a re-embedded economyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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