Social Economics and the Solidarity City
Social Economics and the Solidarity City explores the impact and potential of the social economy as a site of urban struggle, political mobilization and community organization. The search for alternatives to the neoliberal logic governing contemporary cities has often focused on broad and ill-define...
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Routledge,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; The Social Economy, the State and the City; Rolling Back and Rolling Out; Disembedding and Re-embedding; Social and Solidarity; Structure of the Argument; 2 The Rules of the Game; Introduction; Disembedding the Market; Co-ordinating the Commons; Problems of Co-ordination; Social Enterprise Markets; Reassembling the Market; Conclusion; 3 Urban Politics and Alternative Economics; Introduction; Neoliberalism and Its Limits; Countermoves and Resistance
- The Social Base of Solidarity EconomicsThe Mode of Interest Mediation; Scale and the Neighbourhood as a Site of Struggle; Assembling the Social; Conclusion; 4 Social and Solidarity Economics; Introduction; Distribution and Modes of Exchange; The Solidarity Economy and the Social Economy; Solidarity in Economic Practice; Social Entrepreneurship; The Social Base of Economics; Work Integration, Workfare and Empowerment; Non-monetised Trading; Barriers and Cognitive Traps; Conclusion; 5 Enterprises, Legitimacy and Pursuit of the Social; Introduction; Defining Social Enterprises
- Logics, Legitimacies and PressuresCapture, Co-option and Resistance; Mission Drift; Communities, Assets and Local Accumulation; Conclusion; 6 Actually Existing Solidarity Economies; Introduction; Basque Solidarity and Mondragon; Bristol and the Creative Commons; Québec and Solidarity Infrastructure; Red Bologna; Occupation in São Paulo; Peacebuilding, Social Economics and the Contested City; Conclusion; 7 Scale, Replication and Money; Introduction; Scaling, Innovation and Social Value; Scaling-up; The Social Life of Money; Social Finance; Structure of the Sector; Supply and Demand for Finance
- Diversification of SupplyCommunity Development Finance Initiatives (CDFIs); Co-ordination and Finance Schemes; Conclusion; 8 Conclusions; Introduction; The Social Base of Value; The Competitive Environment; Scale, Competition and the State; Network Power and Co-ordinating Institutions; Junctures, Overflows and Affecting Mechanisms; Knowledge and Learning; Skills; Profit Destination; Conclusion; Index
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