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With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has been suggested as an alternative. What can contribute in terms of generating livelihoods that provide a dignified life, meeting of social needs and building of sustainable futures? What can activists in both the global North and South learn from each other?
In this volume academics from a range of disciplines and from a number of European and Latin American countries come together to question what it means to have a 'sustainable society' and to ask what role these alternative economies can play in developing convivial, humane and resilient societies, raising some challenging questions for policy-makers and citizens alike.
Peter North is Reader in Alternative Economies at the University of Liverpool. His research focusses on the transition to a convivial, just and sustainable world at a local level, in the context of the Anthropocene.
Scott Cato is a Green Member of the European Parliament for South West England. She works on finance, tax, trade, food and farming in the Parliament and is a member of the EU-Latin America committee.
Introduction: New Economies North and South: Sharing the Evolution to a Just and Sustainable Future ~ Peter North and Molly Scott Cato;
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Social and Solidarity Economy;
Towards a new economics: Concepts and experiences from Latin America ~ Jose Luis Coraggio;
Towards low carbon solidarity economies ~ Peter North;
Monsieur le Capital and Madame la Terre on the Brink ~ Penelope Ciancanelli and David Fasenfest;
Part II: The Social and Solidarity Economy as a Site of Social Innovation;
Developing the solidarity economy: Brazil's social economy incubators ~ Reinaldo Pacheco da Costa;
Innovation, cooperativism and inclusive development: Rethinking technological change and social inclusion ~ Hernán Thomas and Lucas Becerra;
The solidarity economy and the University’s role in creating sustainable evolution ~ Luiz Roberto Alves, Marco Aurelio Bernardes, Victor Gil Neto and Waverli Maia Maratozzo-Neuberger;
Community governance of common resources in North-Eastern Brazil ~ Gilca Oliveira;
Part III: The Social and Solidarity Economy and the State;
The Danish low carbon transition and the prospects for a democratic economy ~ Andrew Cumbers;
A Brazilian perspective on the solidarity economy: Transferring Argentine experiences of Barter to Brazil ~ Paul I. Singer and Heloisa Pimavera;
21st century socialism? Venezuela’s solidarity, social, popular and communal economy ~ Dario Azzellini;
Co-construction or prefiguration? Rethinking the ‘translation’ of SSE practices into policy ~ Ana Cecilia Dinerstein;
Part IV: Inspiration between north and south;
Being a Zapatista wherever you are: Reflections on academic/activist practice from Latin America ~ Paul Chatterton;
Living Sin Patron: Lessons from Argentina’s societies in movement ~ Marina Sitrin;
The social and solidarity economy in Argentina and the UK: Convergence from opposite directions ~ Molly Scott Cato and Paolo Raffaelli;
Conclusion ~ Peter North and Molly Scott Cato.