This special issue of Organization treats cooperatives as alternative forms of business and organization, focusing on worker-owned-and-governed forms. In reviewing extant research and considering the seven articles in this special issue, we treat five main challenges that workers' cooperatives face: (1) the organizational resources, structures, and dynamics allowing for social as well as economic resilience for worker cooperatives; (2) the complex types and roles of leadership in worker cooperatives and related organizational forms; (3) the capacity of and obstacles to the reinvention of democracy within cooperatives; (4) the relationships between cooperatives and organized labor, the state, the community, and the larger financial system; and (5) the pursuit of cooperative values and policies within international market and environmental contexts. The examination of these challenges in relation to the worker cooperatives specifically

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Scientific literature has shown that both suffering gender-based violence and taking a stand against it could provoke severe retaliation from bystanders, including negative consequences on health. Together with some women, several men—defined as New Alternative Masculinities—have also contributed to fighting against sexual violence in several contexts, also suffering dramatic consequences, known as Isolating Gender Violence (IGV). This article fills the gap on inquiring how men suffering IGV due to intervening in supporting survivors has affected the men’s health. Six in-depth interviews were conducted with men from different contexts and countries and men of different social profiles. The findings reveal how men’s health is better protected when they build networks of support while overcoming the fear of retaliation in achieving to empower direct survivors. In addition, the results recognize men as crucial actors in the struggle against GBV and overcoming IGV, as women potentially do. This may inspire other men to intervene and break the silence regarding GBV in societies and institutions, as it shows that men and women together are needed to fight against GBV.

Este artigo estabelece reflexões acerca dos efeitos do determinismo ecológico dual sobre a formação social brasileira. Realizada a partir de fontes bibliográficas, a pesquisa funda-se no olhar crítico do pensamento pós-colonial, na semiosis colonial e na perspectiva da interação sociedade-natureza da historia ambiental, a fim de desconstruir os signos de dominação disseminados na representação dual da natureza no Brasil. Desde o período colonial a representação de natureza ocorreu numa perspectiva dual: paraíso provedor de riquezas, e/ou fator limitante à sociedade; ambas representações tributárias do determinismo ecológico, fundado, sobretudo, na ideia aristotélica dos trópicos como fator limitante às sociedades e na Teoria do degeneracionismo. Esse dualismo originou-se a partir da visão utilitarista e externalizada da relação sociedade-natureza, durante o processo de dominação colonial. Influenciou a construção do “ser brasileiro”, já que as identidades do povo brasileiro estiveram associadas a noção de selvagem, florestas, meio ecológico e riquezas naturais, operando no modo como o brasileiro se vê, e é visto. Os resultados expõem que, se antes os signos da dominação colonial travestidos de “destino ecológico” eram externos, no presente encontram-se internalizados na mídia, literatura, ciência e na política, oferecendo barreira mental para a identificação das potencialidades e limites do meio ecológico, bem como o desenvolvimento de uma sociedade com elevada sustentabilidade.

Editorial on the Research TopicEmerging Solidarities on the Ground in the Management and Approach of the COVID EmergencyThe manuscripts published in the Special Issue Emerging Solidarities on the Ground in the Management and Approach of the COVID emergency made it possible to approach the different coping strategies and management of the COVID 19 pandemic in different parts of the world, reveals the enormous human capacity to respond to problems as challenging as the pandemic was and still is. Whether in large European cities or within the Brazilian Amazon, in different forms of social organization, it was possible to perceive an enormous capacity for resistance and resilience in the face of a problem of incalculable proportions and damage.This Special Issue gathers eight different papers, from authors representing Latin American institutions, and Canadian and European.The first manuscript, The Covid-19 Emergency and the Risk of Social Fragmentation in the Palermo case, by Siino, the experiences of associations working with people belonging to the weakest part of the community were analyzed from the social context in Southern Italy, in Palermo. Siino interviewed representatives of the main local associations as privileged witnesses, highlighting how the activities of local actors and how the dynamics of solidarity are influenced by the global Covid-19 phenomenon.Also referring to Italy, the manuscript The Italian Deaf community at the time of Coronavirus, by Tomasuolo et al., presented an analysis of the impacts of the pandemic crisis on the Italian deaf community as a linguistic minority. Authors also analyzed, how social media were exploited as a basis to promote social cohesion and share information about the emergence of the coronavirus, and how the deaf community shaped interpretation services in the public media. Hence, the use of social media allowed Deaf people to create a new virtual space.Moving to a different geographical context, the manuscript Covid-19 and the Brazilian Reality: The Role of Favelas in Combating the Pandemic by Carvalho Fernandes et al., showed that favelas' inhabitants are victims of the enormous social inequalities present in Brazilian society and that these are even more severe in the slums. Favelas suffer from lack of access to decent housing, potable water, and a minimum income for survival, what makes the effects of the pandemic more devastating. However, the organizing of actors on the ground and the creation of "Crisis Offices" in the slums led by social organizations and support institutions, has made possible to facilitate mechanisms for assistance.Three manuscripts in this Special Issue tackle the issue of COVID-19 and how it has impacted on the Brazilian indigenous communities, either deepening on how these communities have taken an