📗 Libro en inglés SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY-BASED ECONOMY AND TERRITORY

The articulation between the social and solidarity based economy SSE and territory is not self evident For the contributions to this volume the challenge was one of disentangling these interrelations by avoiding two pitfalls The first the idealist perspective sees SSE as the magic answer to all neoliberalism related ills The demystifing perspective by contrast emphasizes the relentless routinization and isomorphism of SSE enterprises which eventually end up resorting to market oriented and or public economy oriented models Local case studies can extricate from this dilemma Close observation of complex local configurations where public private associative and cooperative actors and issues are deeply entangled enables to achieve a nuanced understanding of the territorial dynamics of the SSE This book is the result of the International Ciriec working group on SSE and territory http www ciriec uliege be en research commission es themes en cours theme de recherche 1 2 It emanates from an interdisciplinary dialogue conducted among researchers from nine countries and two continents Europe and America If contexts vary from one country to another the contributions underline the capacity of SSE to elaborate original inputs to social economic and sustain