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What does 'solidarity economy' mean ? : contours and feasibility of a theoretical and political project

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  • Pepita Ould Ahmed

    (CESSMA - Centre d'Etudes en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains, Américains et Asiatiques - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - IRD [Ile-de-France] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement)

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The market relationships are being contested. This can be seen in the increasing number of alternative social experiments in the 'North' and the 'South' which propose to think out the present market relationships in a different way, in particular in establishing exchange value and in facilitating access to trade. These practical alternatives are supported by trends in academic circles that over the past three decades have opposed neoliberal capitalism and individualism in today's commercialised society. Calling for greater solidarity and social justice in economic relationships, in particular, partisans of social and solidarity economics (SSE), identifying with these trends, demand new forms of exchange. The objective of this article is to re-examine these demands. What exactly do the SSE mean by 'solidarity' and 'solidarity-based economy'? We would like to trace the contours of this theoretical and political project and to assess the practicability of the proposed alternative to neoliberal capitalism.

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  • Pepita Ould Ahmed, 2015. "What does 'solidarity economy' mean ? : contours and feasibility of a theoretical and political project," Post-Print ird-01487182, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:ird-01487182
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    Cited by:

    1. Maria Kousis & Maria Paschou & Angelos Loukakis, 2021. "Transnational Solidarity Organisations and their Main Features, before and since 2008: Adaptive and/or Autonomous?," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 26(3), pages 672-694, September.
    2. John C. Boik, 2016. "Optimality of Social Choice Systems: Complexity, Wisdom, and Wellbeing Centrality," Working Paper 0005, Principled Societies Project, revised Mar 2017.
    3. Louis Larue, 2022. "The case against alternative currencies," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 21(1), pages 75-93, February.

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