Introduction: The Challenge of Scaling Up Social and Solidarity Economy

Utting, Peter

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“…There are many examples of such initiatives that often involve experimenting with alternative materials, substances and anthropochemicals. Consider for example urban experimental eco-living (Pickerill, 2020), the creation of community managed localised infrastructural provision (Hodson et al, 2018), alternative energy supply (Angel, 2017), applied degrowth campaigns (D’Alisa, 2015; Demaria et al, 2013; M. Whitehead, 2013), indigenous forms of eco-social life (Mander & Tauli-Corpuz, 2006; Whyte, 2018), post-developmental politics (Escobar, 2015), urban farms (Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro, 2022), environmental justice campaigns (Agyeman et al, 2016; Bullard & Wright, 2009; Dillon, 2014), ecological activism (Gatt, 2017), maker movements (Ottinger & Cohen, 2011), decolonial ecologies (Ferdinand, 2019), post-capitalist economies (Gibson-Graham, 2006), transition towns (Hopkins, 2011), food sovereignty movements (Shattuck et al, 2017), permaculture gardens (Mars et al, 2016), commons transition (P2P Foundation, 2015), climate urbanism (Bulkeley, 2015), environmental citizenship (Dobson & Bell, 2006), social and solidarity economies (Utting, 2015), bioregeneration (Darwish, 2013), the peasant confederation La Via Campesina and agroecology (Rosset, 2017). What is common to all these very diverse examples is that they establish their own planetary and ecological boundaries as they engage in the ecological reparation of the spaces that they inhabit and maintain.…”

Section: Conclusion: Scaling Outmentioning

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Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology

Papadopoulos

2022

The Sociological Review

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If our worlds are unimaginable, or, ironically, perhaps even unsustainable without anthropogenic chemicals, what does it mean to live and navigate the toxic regime, this historical moment where human-made substances are so entangled with ecologies and societies that a clean up and an ‘after’ to our polluted worlds is almost unthinkable? Anthropogenic chemicals are produced and used at such scale that humans need a tremendous scale of alternative chemicals to replace them. Scale, the organising principle of growth, is the source of ecological degradation and, simultaneously, is a necessary component of many remediation attempts. As life is becoming more and more chemical, chemical practice is gradually becoming conscious of its flagrant disregard of its own ecological boundaries. The attempt to restore a holistic experience of ecology shapes many current attempts to develop alternative chemical practices. When chemical practice becomes obliged by ecology to respond to the environmental crisis, the search for a different approach to scale emerges. With obligation comes the quest for reparation, both as repair and as compensation for the social and ecological damage done.

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Section: Conclusion: Scaling Outmentioning

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Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology

Papadopoulos

2022

The Sociological Review

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“…Intentionally constructed self-organised alternative economies can be analytically revealing on the diversity of social practices, as their participants at least to a certain degree share an understanding of the other-than-market practices and codes of conduct (on the politics of alternative economies, see Miller, 2013; North, 2007). Examples of such alternative economies include timebanks, LETS (local exchange trading system) schemes, local currencies, co-operatives and exchange platforms (North, 2007; Utting, 2015; Seyfang and Longhurst, 2013) but also more specific practices of peer production and peer sharing such as communal urban gardens (Veen and Dagevos, 2019; Pikner et al , 2020) or non-profit ridesharing (Chimenti, 2020). These represent a turn to a do-it-yourself ethos and an attempt to reassert control over economic practices (cf.…”

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Economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies: the Finnish cases of ridesharing and timebanking

Eskelinen

Venäläinen

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeThis paper explores economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies and argues that the diverse economies approach is particularly useful in elaborating the self-understandings of such economic communities. The analysis focuses on two types of alternative economies in Finland: ridesharing and timebanking.Design/methodology/approachThrough qualitative data, the paper looks into moments of negotiation where economic moralities of self-organised alternative economies are explicitly debated. The main research data consists of social media conversations, supplemented by a member survey for the participants of the studied timebank. The data are analysed through theory-guided qualitative content analysis.FindingsThe analysis shows that the moments of negotiation within alternative economies should not be understood as simple collisions of mutually exclusive ideas, but rather as complex processes of balancing between overlapping and partly incommensurable economic moralities. While self-organised alternative economies might appear as functionally uniform at the level of their everyday operations, they still provide considerable leeway for different conceptions of the underlying normative commitments.Originality/valueTo date, there is little qualitative research on how the participants of self-organised alternative economies reflect the purpose and ethics of these practices. This study contributes to the body of diverse economies research by analysing novel case studies in the Finnish context. Through empirical analysis, this paper also provides a theoretical framework of how the different economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies can be mapped.

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“…In Canada, Indigenous people include First Nations, Inuit and Metis. While they comprise only 4.3 percent of the population, they are the fastest-growing demographic group in the country (Statistics Canada, 2011;2015). More than 600 Indigenous communities are spread across Canada, "each with unique relationships to three components: the land; municipal, provincial, and federal governments; and non-Indigenous communities" (Sengupta, Vieta and McMurtry, 2015, 105).…”

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Building Sustainable Local Food Solutions: How Canadian Indigenous Communities are Using the Social and Solidarity Economy to Implement Zero Hunger

Sumner¹,

Tarhan²,

McMurtry³

2020

CIRIEC Working Papers

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In the face of chronic food insecurity brought on by centuries of colonialism, some Indigenous communities in Canada are turning to the social and solidarity economy to craft their own solutions to hunger. This paper explores these solutions, using a case study of the Northern Manitoba Food, Culture and Community Collaborative (NMFCCC) to illustrate how they are helping to implement the second Sustainable Development Goal – zero hunger. Through local initiatives such as community gardens and greenhouses, co-operatives, community kitchens, school gardens, community-based food programs, food markets and public-sector procurement, they are also helping to implement other Sustainable Development Goals, while providing models that can be replicated in diverse communities. The emphasis on community ownership, control and benefits highlights the importance of a definition of the SSE that is based on community needs.

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Introduction: The Challenge of Scaling Up Social and Solidarity Economy

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Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology

Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology

Economic moralities in self-organised alternative economies: the Finnish cases of ridesharing and timebanking

Building Sustainable Local Food Solutions: How Canadian Indigenous Communities are Using the Social and Solidarity Economy to Implement Zero Hunger

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