The advance of Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) and Internet of Things (IoT) brought a new set of Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), especially related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Scholars and policymakers may be able to understand the alternative economic networks of subalterns better and may establish policies for the sustenance of such networks. Such a conceptual framework of the overlapping space of alternative economy and subalterns may add certain important aspects to the simultaneously burgeoning body of academic works on alternative economy as well as subaltern studies.
A conceptual framework is constructed for this overlapping space based upon the present study. The narratives collected from the subaltern peddlers are used to present certain inferences about the nature of the overlapping space of alternative economy and subaltern businesses. The present study embraces the following steps: (a) tracing the evolution of alternative economy with a view to understanding the characteristics of alternative economy (b) identifying some distinctive characteristics of alternative economic networks and (c) utilizing the distinctive characteristics of alternative economic networks, to conduct a qualitative study of an organization of subaltern street peddlers. The subaltern has often spoken through qualitative studies in the past. The objective of the present study is to explore the overlapping space of subaltern business groups and alternative economy. A subaltern business group is identified in the present study, and the applicability of the characteristics of alternative economies is researched. Subalterns have often created alternative economies through their networks of solidarity to rally themselves against the hegemonic scourge of mainstream economies. Abstract Subalterns constitute the large majority of the members of any social system and are closely associated with the geopolitics of any geographical area.
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