“…Thus, a number of alternative or diverse economic practices which often lie outside of the accepted capitalist purview and thus largely hidden in plain sight, represent a critical space with which to re-envision a modern political-economy. This may take the form of Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), which is a not-for-profit, place-based mutual aid network, where for example, one hour of baby-sitting is exchanged directly for one hour of lawn mowing, with no money changing hands (for other examples, see Parker et al, 2014). Or a community currency scheme, which signals a range of community-led localized exchange systems, such as the Brixton pound see Community Currencies in Action, 2015; also Seyfang & Longhurst, 2013).…”