The Salt Spring dollar is a community currency founded Salt Spring Island, a Gulf
Islands community located in the Salish Sea between Victoria and Vancouver, British
Columbia. Currency use in 2018, nearly two decades after its release in 2001, has
declined but remains a means of devising alternatives to the dis-embedded market and
environmental degradation, as well as a way of re-embedding social concerns and
relations in the exchange of money. This thesis is a case study of this alternative currency and examines how it compares to other alternative currencies. It also examines the reasons the use of the Salt Spring dollar has declined since its inception. The Salt Spring dollar illustrates that monetary exchange and participation in the market is not merely an economic act but is also social and political. While the currency was designed with the purpose of promoting local production and exchange, it also was designed to ground money in community and social relations. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/10829 |
| Date | 01 May 2019 |
| Creators | Cowan, Maya |
| Contributors | Rudnyckyj, Daromir |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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