From community wealth‐building to system change

Guinan, Joe; O’Neill, Martin

doi:10.1111/newe.12130

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“…CWB is a dynamically emerging economic governance model, devised originally by a Washington DC-based think tank, the Democracy Collaborative, to offer a ‘[…] left alternative to both extractive neoliberalism and xenophobic nationalism […]’ (Guinan and O’Neill, 2019: 383), ideologies which Guinan and O’Neill suggest are proponents of ‘dangerous inequalities of wealth and power’ (Guinan and O’Neill, 2019: 383). Growing acknowledgement of CWB as a new way forward internationally is establishing an irrefutable impetus for change.…”

Section: Community Wealth Building ‘Community’ and ‘Community Empower...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Community wealth building or local authority rhetoric?

Redwood

Smith

Steiner

et al. 2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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We examine the principles, purpose and practice of Community Wealth Building (CWB). Our case study, located in the UK, involves a Local Authority (LA), local community groups and local people, and the implementation of a CWB initiative by the LA. Action research enabled us to scrutinise the LA approach to the CWB initiative in terms of community engagement and consultation. We identified power and control tensions in relationships between the LA and different community groups (including local development trusts) that undermine the theoretical principles of CWB. Examination of these issues through a Bourdieuvian lens reveals the role played by power relations and highlights the need for ‘practical reflexivity’ in any community engagement process especially where institutions are at risk of misinterpreting how CWB might be accomplished in practice. Our study contributes a reflexivity model of CWB for purpose and practice, grounded in ethics, fairness and inclusion, and is of significance to LA initiatives claiming a CWB mission, vision and strategy.

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Section: Community Wealth Building ‘Community’ and ‘Community Empower...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Community wealth building or local authority rhetoric?

Redwood

Smith

Steiner

et al. 2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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“…Perceived to be situated at the nexus of government, market, and civil society, social enterprises are claimed to have the potential to solve intractable problems by pursuing both social purpose and economic profit, based on cross-sectional collaboration (Defourny and Nyssens, 2017;Nyssens, 2007). In this context, social enterprises have promoted the employment of the hard-to-employ (O'Hara and O'Shaughnessy, 2021); addressed sustainable economic development in rural areas (Steiner and Teasdale, 2019); developed local communities by supporting local entrepreneurs (O'Hara, 2001), and distributing surplus funds back to the community (Guinan and O'Neill, 2020). While relatively recent arrivals on the policy agenda, social enterprises as policy initiatives, have been quite widely studied, and governments have developed and implemented social enterprise policies in a number of distinct ways.…”

Section: National Approaches To Social Enterprise Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking social enterprise policy making in Ireland – untangling proportionate, disproportionate and unengaged sectoral policy contributions

Broin¹,

Doyle²

2022

The Irish Journal of Management

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The National Social Enterprise Policy of Ireland was launched in 2019 following a slow and episodic process. The aim of the paper is to examine the development and implementation of the National Social Enterprise Policy. In particular the interaction between key sectoral stakeholders in the development of the policy and the primary influences on the process. The results of a substantial qualitative enquiry details the complex set of relationships underpinning the development of social enterprise policy in a multi-level governance framework. It situates the National Social Enterprise Policy in an environment unusually susceptible to sub-sectoral advocacy and highlights the particular characteristics of the Irish case where social enterprise policy is largely removed from broader social economy policy interventions in Ireland and the European Union. The paper highlights the complex and fluid environment in which various stakeholders articulated and advocated for their policy positions. It also details how the relevant policy institutions engaged with and were influenced by stakeholders. It contributes to the understanding of social enterprise policy formulation and how this process can become more inclusive.

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“…No single intervention can produce transformative social change on its own (DeFilippis et al 2019), but a multitude of intersecting interventions, together, can enable and nurture transformative social change by creating conditions under which increasing numbers of inhabitants are drawn into complex cooperative relations with each other. Some of the interventions we have just listed are highlighted in the Anglo-American literature on "community wealth building", which advocates for a localization of economic relations anchored in local cooperative ownership of sectors of the economy (Alperowitz and Dubb 2015;Guinan and O'Neill 2019). This literature tends to emphasize the policy levers at the local government scale, ranging from local land-use policies that support nonmarket development initiatives to local government investment in cooperative financial institutions and worker-owned enterprises (Alperowitz 2005;Imbroscio 2013).…”

Section: The State and The Rttc: A Multi-scalar Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of the interventions we have just listed are highlighted in the Anglo-American literature on “community wealth building”, which advocates for a localization of economic relations anchored in local cooperative ownership of sectors of the economy (Alperowitz and Dubb 2015; Guinan and O’Neill 2019). This literature tends to emphasize the policy levers at the local government scale, ranging from local land-use policies that support nonmarket development initiatives to local government investment in cooperative financial institutions and worker-owned enterprises (Alperowitz 2005; Imbroscio 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

The End of the Right to the City: A Radical-Cooperative View

Althorpe

Horák

2021

Urban Affairs Review

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Is the Right to the City (RTTC) still a useful framework for a transformative urban politics? Given recent scholarly criticism of its real-world applications and appropriations, in this paper, we argue that the transformative promise in the RTTC lies beyond its role as a framework for oppositional struggle, and in its normative ends. Building upon Henri Lefebvre's original writing on the subject, we develop a “radical-cooperative” conception of the RTTC. Such a view, which is grounded in the lived experiences of the current city, envisions an urban society in which inhabitants can pursue their material and social needs through self-governed cooperation across social difference. Growing and diversifying spaces and sectors of urban life that are decoupled from global capitalism are, we argue, necessary to create space for this inclusionary politics. While grassroots action is essential to this process, so is multi-scalar support from the state.

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From community wealth‐building to system change

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Community wealth building or local authority rhetoric?

Community wealth building or local authority rhetoric?

Rethinking social enterprise policy making in Ireland – untangling proportionate, disproportionate and unengaged sectoral policy contributions

The End of the Right to the City: A Radical-Cooperative View

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