Alternative economies and spaces : new perspectives for a sustainable economy Biographical note: Hans Martin Zademach is Professor of Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt Ingolstadt. Sebastian Hillebrand is Research and Teaching Associate in the Department of Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt Ingolstadt. Main description: The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant Michael K. Goodman Benjamin Huybrechts Andrew E.G. Jonas Roger Lee Peter North and Katinka Weber) concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange. The cases addressed in these contributions including credit unions alternative currencies sustainable consumption and social enterprises deliver valuable insights into how such alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces in relation to and beyond the economic mainstream. In sum the collection provides vital grounds for both a transition of the economic system towards a more sustainable one and a reconceptualisation of the economic itself in our scholarly thinking and everyday lives.