Vicky Nowak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1522427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicky Nowak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicky |
| FAMILY NAME | Nowak |
| SIGNATURE | NOWAK V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6611-2169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Navigating the Nexus: Blockchain technology, social Innovation, and complementary digital currencies
This paper explores the tensions between democratic and technocratic forms of social innovation in the context of complementary digital currencies. Through an in-depth ethnographic case study of Moneda PAR, a blockchain-based complementary currency in Argentina, we examine how diverse agents — including grassroots activists, political actors, academics and software developers — collaborated to design a financial social innovation aimed at economi…
Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Navigating the Nexus: Blockchain technology, social Innovation, and complementary digital currencies
This paper explores the tensions between democratic and technocratic forms of social innovation in the context of complementary digital currencies. Through an in-depth ethnographic case study of Moneda PAR, a blockchain-based complementary currency in Argentina, we examine how diverse agents — including grassroots activists, political actors, academics and software developers — collaborated to design a financial social innovation aimed at economi…
Agonism (1 works) · Austerity (1 works) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Corporate governance (1 works) · Cryptocurrency (1 works) · Democracy (1 works) · Economic Growth and Development (1 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (1 works) · Family Business Performance and Succession (1 works)