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Challenges in strategies for socioeconomic democratization. Assessing solidarity economy policies in Barcelona

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  • Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada

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To understand how policies for the social and solidarity economy can contribute to economic democratization and identify the challenges linked to this, we examined the impetus plan which Barcelona city council implemented between 2016 and 2019. Based on semi-structured interviews with policy actors, social entrepreneurs and engaged activists, and on participative observation of two city council assessment workshops, we explore the limitations of the social and solidarity sector from a political economy perspective. Barcelona's approach has previously been acknowledged as an outstanding and innovative strategy that confronts the lack of transversality across public administrations and the complexities around co-construction within the social sector itself. In this examination, we observe how sector actors address issues of cultural tensions around economic thinking and stress the need for a plural and transformative approach towards economic activity. We conclude that, to couple social and solidarity economy policies with economic democratization goals and enable tracking of changes in cities’ socioeconomic governance, it is necessary to work with an integrative perspective that takes into account other policy fields besides social entrepreneurship, and other types of actors, while also considering the connections between public bodies and the social and solidarity economy sector.

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  • Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada, 2021. "Challenges in strategies for socioeconomic democratization. Assessing solidarity economy policies in Barcelona," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(11), pages 2145-2163, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:29:y:2021:i:11:p:2145-2163
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2021.1937950
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