The Alterity of the Social Economy

Amin, Ash; Cameron, Angus; Hudson, Ray

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“…which have managed to introduce modes of organisation based on solidarity and reciprocity, and serving niche markets formed by members or particular target user groups. In the (continental) European contexts, many of those are not charities or foundations but, using Gaiger's qualifications, a different articulation of social into economic life by often-powerful socioeconomic organisations and not only the petty underscaled or undercapitalised local initiatives of moaning communities (compare Amin et al, 2003).…”

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“…The term social economy is of relatively recent currency in the UK and its meaning is still evolving and susceptible to many often-contradictory interpretations (Pearce, 1999, p. 2;Amin et al, 2003). According to Defourny and Monzón Campos (1992), the term third sector is often used as the English translation of the French concept économie sociale (Lorendahl, 1997, p. 76) in order to distinguish that part of the national economy which is neither the private sector nor the public sector and to define all voluntary sector or voluntary organisation activity.…”

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“…These assumptions are often based on satisfactory experiences, sounding-out a more positive discourse on the 'local social economy' than that developed by Amin et al (2003).…”

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Social Economy, Third Sector and Solidarity Relations: A Conceptual Synthesis from History to Present

2005

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Summary. This paper attempts to provide a clear perspective on defining the social economy today. It addresses the question of the relevance of a unifying concept with its need to embrace the existing diversity of approaches and concepts. To this end, it surveys both historical and contemporary academic literature, as well as practice-rooted conceptualisations of the social economy. The first section outlines the analytical challenges to a reconstruction of the social economy concept. The second enhances the historical and space-bound diversity in theorising and institutionalising social economy practices. Section 3 focuses on contemporary reconceptualisations of the social economy in Francophone and Anglo-Saxon literature, while section 4 then suggests improvements to current 'social economy' concepts, by linking them to both the lessons of history and the views of social economy practitioners today.

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2005

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“…Even as places and regions are becoming ever more drawn into global networks and circuits of capital, there is a great deal of geographical variation in terms of how people and communities engage with, experience, and reproduce economic transactions on a daily basis. As Roger Lee (2006) Nevertheless searching questions are being asked about how we should approach and conceptualise the alterity of these putatively 'alternative' local and regional enterprises (Amin et al 2003;Samers 2005;Healy 2009). Some scholars have pointed to an emerging rift between believers of alterity and radical sceptics (Fickey and Hanrahan forthcoming).…”

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Alternative Economies and Spaces : New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy

Zademach¹,

Hillebrand²

2013

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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Cover concept: Kordula Röckenhaus, Bielefeld Cover illustration: Alexandra Kaiser, Eichstätt, 2011 Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar ISBN 978-3-8376-2498-4 Content AcknowledgementsThe volume in hand contains a collection of contributions that are concerned with alternative modes of economic and social exchange, among them alternative currency schemes, fair trade, and social enterprises. Earlier versions of these papers have been presented in the context of the study program 'Space -Society -Economy' at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt during the winter term 2011/12. This new program was established on the initiative of the Geography Department as a platform that aims to introduce, discuss and advance new concepts and debates at the intersections between geography, the social sciences and economics. For this purpose, each term addresses a specific topic in usually five public lectures of international guest speakers and additional work in an accompanying seminar.It is worth noting that this study program is fully financed by tuition fees of local students; thus, first of all, we wish to thank our students for making these events possible. In this vein, we also want to thank our student assistants Julia De Gregorio and Julian Rochlitz for their excellent support in organising the series as well as valuable comments on earlier drafts of the introductory chapter. A special thanks is also due to Alexandra Kaiser for her assistance with the figures in this book and for designing the web page and further announcement materials for the study program that not least influenced the design of the cover of the book. Our team assistant Theresia | ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES AND SPACESNeubauer deserves special appreciation for her great care and patience in processing all administrative tasks.Our utmost gratitude goes, of course, to the distinguished colleagues that accepted our invitation to present and discuss selected parts of their contemporary work in course of the series; they were not deterred by the efforts to travel to wintery snowy Eichstätt, in some cases (such as in the case of Roger Lee who did the whole trip from London by train) indeed a weary journey. By dint of their insightful reflections and rich illustrations of how alternatives are performed at various scales and spaces, they offered all participants in the program, students and colleagues, a great opportunity to delve deeper into the highly relevant, challenging and exciting project to interrogate and practice alternatives in relation to and beyond economic mainstream. We hope that this volume contributes to carrying this project a little further. Hans-Martin Zademach and Sebastian Hillebrand Eichstätt, March 201...

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“…This is particularly problematic when individualism and entrepreneurship, as commonly comprehended, are not generally seen as having collective concern for either the environment or wider society as a primary goal. It also ignores a wealth of research that examines trading spaces beyond the mainstream and innovators who are not motivated primarily by self-interest or profit, but often by a combination of social, environmental and economic factors (Amin et al, 2003;Leyshon et al, 2003, Lee et al, 2004Hughes, 2005;Seyfang, 2009). This research argues that the [re]building of community capacity is often at the heart of these innovation spaces and in many cases, although not all, there is what Hughes calls a 'reinsertion of the local' in the activities beyond the mainstream market sector (Hughes, 2005, p. 498) with an emphasis on Offer's (1997) notion of 'relations of regard' between producers and consumers.…”

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Greening the economy: interrogating sustainability innovations beyond the mainstream

Davies

Mullin

2010

Journal of Economic Geography

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Current international economic and environmental conditions have led to increasing calls for alternative pathways of development. Globally, the language of a green economy is being promoted as a means to develop a 'win-win' for the economy and the environment. There are concerns, however, that the emerging frameworks for sustainable economic renewal marginalize social dimensions of sustainability and the already existing practices of sustainability innovation within the social economy. Using empirical evidence from Ireland, this article examines the dimensions of this marginalisation by interrogating the dynamic landscape of environmentally focused social economy enterprises as additional spaces of sustainability innovation for a greener economy. It is found that while these enterprises can be cast as spaces of actually existing sustainable development tensions persist which together raise general questions about measuring and communicating sustainability as well as more foundational issues relating to permissible forms of sustainable economic renewal.

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The Alterity of the Social Economy

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Social Economy, Third Sector and Solidarity Relations: A Conceptual Synthesis from History to Present

Social Economy, Third Sector and Solidarity Relations: A Conceptual Synthesis from History to Present

Alternative Economies and Spaces : New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy

Greening the economy: interrogating sustainability innovations beyond the mainstream

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