Through definitions, personal debt stories and co-created printmaking, Elastic Money: A Lexicon of Debt maps the vocabulary used by local women in Bootle to talk about debt and money, from the emotional to the practical: financial jargon, slang, idioms, hyper-local colloquialisms and everyday words, acknowledging local people as experts-by-experience. These community definitions make up the Lexicon alongside five personal stories about debt. Elastic Money: A Lexicon of Debt captures a creative and discursive process by The Alternative School of Economics produced by Rule of Threes and Sefton Libraries as part of At The Library in Bootle.
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Commissioned by At the Library & Venus Charity
Published by At the Library, 2025
Designed and printed at Crosby Library by Mark Simmonds
ISBN 978-1-874516-32-3
£12 plus £3.50 UK p&p
Two stops short of Barking was written and produced by Gboyega Odubanjo during his time as Writer in Residence with Rabbits Road Institute Library whilst on tour to Barking & Dagenham.
Gboyega Odubanjo’s writing rubs together different parts of his world: London, Nigerian culture, religion, music, parties, histories of migration. This collection of poems and interviews defines a relationship to his home town of Dagenham in East London. The booklet features a sequence of poems alongside with interviews with John Akinde, Tife Kosuri and John Smith.
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20pp b&w digitally printed booklet, comes with a free postcard of the poem Zone 5
Design by Design Print Bind
Published by The Alternative School of Economics
Reprint published 2025
ISBN 978-1-8384313-1-0
£1 from every copy will be donated to the Gboyega Odubanjo Foundation
Teaching posters developed through an active project with GCSE Sociology classes from Little Ilford School in Manor Park, Newham. Each one outlines a series of questions, starting points, and provocations for the classroom, college or community centre, for studies that seek to change the future:
- The Rich as a Minority Group – thinking through the title
- Power, Capital and Happiness – questions to get the group thinking
- Structures in Society – facts and ideas about how they support the rich
- What is Active Research? – ideas for active and creative approaches to study
Can be used as teaching aids, or just enjoyed as they are!
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Set of 4, A2, 3-colour lithograph printed
Design by Joe Hales. Illustrations by Rosanna Traina.
Conversations That Matter is a small publication considers ways in which we might learn collaboratively and democratically, and what the political implications of this are. As the culmination of The Alternative School of Economics’s weekly Conversation Club at Rabbits Road Institute, it asks both ‘what’s political about learning English?’ and ‘how can we learn English politically?’
The premise of a Conversation Club has been to bring together non-native English speakers to give space and time to ‘conversations that matter’ – to practise speaking English whilst talking about personal, political and social issues, and trying to get to grips with how the things that affect our lives are connected to the bigger picture.
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34pp b&w booklet with embossed cover.
Design by An Endless Supply. Illustration by Rosie Traina. Photographs by Hydar Dewachi.