Andrew Zitcer is assistant professor and program director of the Urban Strategy graduate program at Drexel University.
Amid talk of Covid-19, Trump, U.S. imperialism, and racialized capitalism, it is always good to hear about the 'other America' built on social justice, cooperation, and creativity. Andrew Zitcer's engaged, sympathetic, but not uncritical, study of four Philadelphia cooperatives ranges across bodies and practices, scales, and inclusion and exclusion to paint a theoretically rich study of the visions and activities of today's cooperators that will inspire those of us who would like to build such societal wealth in our communities. --Peter North, author of Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements