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Solidarity economy and community development: emerging cases in three Massachusetts cities

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  • Penn Loh
  • Boone Shear

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Solidarity economy (SE) is a set of theories and practices that engenders ethical economic relationships and new possibilities for democratic and transformative community development. SE advances democratic community development by providing an alternative to capitalist ideology from which the core goals of solidarity and agency can be imagined, identified, and realized. Further, it advances a set of concrete economic practices that enact these goals while sustaining people and the planet. Politically, SE is a movement that can build power within and across scales and win supportive policy and public resources. Using the development of SE in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, Massachusetts as examples, the article discusses the possibilities and challenges for SE projects to negotiate across differing values and politics, racial and class divides, and the challenge of accessing startup capital and building finance. SE suggests trajectories of "scaling up," where local and regional efforts might be part of a strategy for deeper political-economic transformation. How SE expands depends on how actors in particular places and times take advantage of opportunities and overcome ideological, economic, and political challenges.

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  • Penn Loh & Boone Shear, 2015. "Solidarity economy and community development: emerging cases in three Massachusetts cities," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(3), pages 244-260, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:comdev:v:46:y:2015:i:3:p:244-260
    DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2015.1021362
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    1. Lucia Piani & Laura Pagani & Giulio Ellero & Maria Chiara Zanarotti, 2019. "Empirical Evaluation of Vocation to Solidarity Economy Using Composite Indicators," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(14), pages 1-15, July.
    2. Dev Narayan Sarkar & Kaushik Kundu, 2018. "The overlap spaces of alternative economy and subaltern businesses: a study of emigrant peddlers," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 7(1), pages 1-24, December.
    3. Dev Narayan Sarkar & Kaushik Kundu, 2020. "Conceptual Expansion and Approaches to the Concept of Alternative Economy," Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Emerging Markets Forum, vol. 12(3), pages 257-282, September.
    4. Danielle Annoni & Karine de Souza Silva & Gabriela Martini dos Santos, 2022. "Solidarity Economy and social inclusion: The Immigrant Fair in Florianópolis, Brazil," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 40(2), March.
    5. Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez & Bruno Boidin, 2019. "Community-based mutual health organisations in Senegal: a specific form of social and solidarity economy?," Post-Print hal-02400072, HAL.

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