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How useful is research on cooperatives? Reflection based on 3 double-cap situations
[Quelle utilité de la recherche sur les coopératives? Réflexions à partir de 3 situations à double casquette]

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  • Marius Chevallier

    (GEOLAB - Laboratoire de Géographie Physique et Environnementale - UBP - Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 - IR SHS UNILIM - Institut Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société - UNILIM - Université de Limoges - UCA [2017-2020] - Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne, GEOLAB-CE - Capital Environnemental - GEOLAB - Laboratoire de Géographie Physique et Environnementale - UBP - Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 - IR SHS UNILIM - Institut Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société - UNILIM - Université de Limoges - UCA [2017-2020] - Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA - Université Clermont Auvergne)

  • Camille Noûs

    (Laboratoire Cogitamus = Cogitamus Laboratory)

Abstract

Although I am highly motivated by collaborative action research in which the problems, the surveys (definition and administration) and the analyses can be carried out with the participation of the people concerned by the survey, I often have an aftertaste of incompleteness. In my experience, the dialogue between respondents and interviewers has often seemed to me to be approximate and not very thorough, despite the energy that is put into it and the trust that is created between the people. Being both a researcher on cooperatives and an active member in cooperatives for the past fifteen years, I had the opportunity to experience for myself how research can feed practice: on the one hand I have a broad enough knowledge of the literature to know where to identify relevant issues and, on the other hand, I hear and share some of the questions and tensions experienced in cooperatives. I would like to share my experience in three cooperatives in which I have been particularly involved in France : Coop Atlantique, a veteran consumer cooperative (northern New Aquitaine), Railcoop, the first railway cooperative, which was born in 2019 but already has 8000 members and Le Temps de Vivre, a small cooperative with 40 members (café-library, third place, small town near Limoges). This work allows me to identify examples of research results that have been used for action and to see in what form this use has been made, distinguishing between the main contributions of the scientific method and the contributions of research results, which happens to be secondary in my practice. So, having analysed this experience of a practitioner who uses research myself, I think that this will help me to better find out how to deepen collaborative action research with structures of which I am not myself a member, by better targeting the facets of collaborative action research that are the most relevant.

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  • Marius Chevallier & Camille Noûs, 2021. "How useful is research on cooperatives? Reflection based on 3 double-cap situations [Quelle utilité de la recherche sur les coopératives? Réflexions à partir de 3 situations à double casquette]," Post-Print hal-03288618, HAL.
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