ABSTRACT
As in many other metropolises, alternative economic practices in Hong Kong have grown out of contradictions of advanced capitalism, and they take a variety of forms, including producer and consumer cooperatives, local exchange and trading systems (LETS), community-supported agriculture (CSA), the fair trade movement, and so on. There is no question that the small city-state, dominated by hegemonic market forces and the heinous power of property and finance capital, leaves very little space for the continued survival of these alternative economic practices. Yet, the very existence of highly resilient projects devoid of mainstream market logic manifests rich and diverse political imaginations, and they are in effect heterotopias occupying urban spaces coexisting with those dominated by capital.
