Sustainable community movement organizations : solidarity economies and rhizomatic practices / edited by Francesca Forno and Richard R. Weiner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forno, Francesca, editor.

Weiner, Richard R., editor.

Series:

Routledge focus on environment and sustainability.

Routledge focus on environment and sustainability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--Environmental aspects.

Community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 131 pages).

Edition:

1 Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organisations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core. Extending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives and mutualities, the essays in this collection explore new geographies of solidarity practices ranging from forms of horizontal democracy to interurban and transnational networks. The authors uniquely frame these movements within the Deleuzian concept of the 'rhizome', as a meshwork of alternative spaces, paths and trajectories. This connectivity is illustrated in case studies from around the world, ranging from protest movements in response to austerity measures in Southern Europe, to the Buen Vivir movement in the Andes, and Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in the Caribbean and Canada. Positioning these cases in relation to current theoretical debates on Social Solidarity Economy, the authors specifically address the question of the persistence and the durability of the organizing practices in community economies. This book will be a valuable tool for academics and students of sustainable consumption, environmental policy, social policy, environmental economics, environmental management and sustainability studies more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

3.1 Map of Solidarity Economy in Spain

3.2 Map of SUSY Initiatives in Spain

5.1 Growth Trend of Solidarity Purchase Groups in Italy, 1994-2013: from 1 to 1,000 GAS Self-Registered on www.retegas.org

5.2 Main Objectives and Results of GAS Groups (%)

5.3 Reasons for Joining GAS

7.1 Meeting of Rondas Campesinas commemorating the victory over the mining project in the town of Unión Las Minas, district of Tabaconas, San Ignacio province in the foothills of the Andes in Peru

List of Tables

2.1 Types of SCMOs

6.1 Interviewed Black Women in Informal cooperative Banks in the Caribbean and Canada

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Glossary

1 Introduction: Sustainable Solidarity Economies: Rhizomatic Practices for another World

2 Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs): Reinvigorating Cooperatives and Mutualités via Post-Capitalistic Practices

3 Operationalizing SCMO as a Social-Economic Concept: The Case of Post-2008 Spain

4 The Making of New Commons in Southern Europe: Afterlives of the Movement of the Squares

5 Shopping for a Sustainable Future: the Promises of Collectively Planned Consumption

6 Black Diaspora Women Lead Cooperative Banks

7 Rondas Campesinas and Defense Fronts: The Environmental Justice Movement Confronting Extractivist Policies in Peru

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-32455-3

1-000-05588-4

9780429324550

OCLC:

1134461601