Solidarity Economy

Hamburg: Junius-Verlag, 2019.

Degrowth oder Postwachstum ist ein dynamisches Forschungsfeld und Bezugspunkt vielfältiger sozial-ökologischer Bewegungen. Postwachstum ist nicht nur eine grundlegende Kritik an der Hegemonie des Wirtschaftswachstums. Es ist auch eine Vision für eine andere Gesellschaft, die angesichts von Klimawandel und globaler Ungleichheit Pfade für grundlegende Gesellschaftsveränderung skizziert. Dieser Band macht erstmals den Versuch einer systematischen Einführung. Er diskutiert die Geschichte von Wachstum und Wirtschaftsstatistiken und rekonstruiert die zentralen Formen der Wachstumskritik: ökologische, soziale, kulturelle, Kapitalismus-, feministische, Industrialismus- sowie Süd-Nord-Kritik. Und er gibt einen Überblick zu den wichtigsten Vorschlägen, Konzepten und Praktiken, die er zugleich politisch einordnet.

»Souverän, aber bündig, breit gefächert, aber nuanciert – eine solche Einführung in das Postwachstumsdenken hat gefehlt! Konkrete Utopien haben ihre heimlichen Schlüsselwörter: Obergrenze und selektives Wachstum, Gemeinwohl und Solidarität, Commons und Konvivalität. Es ist an der Zeit, sie auszuprobieren und einzuüben, bevor sie unversehens in aller Munde sind!«
Wolfgang Sachs, Herausgeber des Development Dictionary. A Guide to Knowledge as Power

»Kompakt, sorgfältig, inspirierend. Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung bietet sowohl einen spannenden und differenzierten Einstieg für Anfänger_innen, als auch eine systematische, tiefgreifende und kritische Analyse der verschiedenen Strömungen, die auch Expert_innen überraschen wird. Von Kritik und Utopie bis hin zu aktivistischen Interventionen geben die Autor_innen einen umfassenden Überblick über die internationale Degrowth-Debatte in ihren Differenzen, Widersprüchen und Potentialen für eine radikale sozial-ökologische Transformation.«
Barbara Muraca, Autorin von Gut Leben: Eine Gesellschaft jenseits des Wachstums

The social and solidarity economy concept refers to enterprises, organizations, and innovations that combine production of goods, services, and knowledge with achieving economic and social goals as well as solidarity building.

M. Klimczuk-Kochańska, A. Klimczuk, Social and Solidarity Economy, [in:] M. Odekon (eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty, 2nd Edition, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks 2015, pp. 1413-1416.

"Table of Contents by Parts/Themes & Chapters 1-25

PART 1 POLICY AND REGULATIONS

1 The Rise and Fall of Intercountry Adoption in the 21st Century: Global Trends from 2001 to 2010 by Peter Selman
2 Social Policy Approaches and Social Work Dilemmas in Intercountry Adoption by Jonathan Dickens
3 Implications of the Hague Convention on the Humanitarian Evacuation and ‘Rescue’ of Children by Kathleen Ja Sook Bergquist
4 Human Rights Considerations in Intercountry Adoption: The Children and Families of Cambodia and Marshall Islands
by Jini Roby and Trish Maskew
5 Fraud in Intercountry Adoption: Child Sales and Abduction in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Guatemala by Karen Smith Rotabi
6 Perspectives on Child Welfare: Ways of Understanding Roles and Actions of Current USA Adoption Agencies Involved in Intercountry Adoptions by Mary Katherine O’Connor and Karen Smith Rotabi

PART 2 SENDING COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES
7 Child Welfare in Romania: Contexts and Processes
by Cristina Nedelcu and Victor Groza
8 Challenging the Discourse of Intercountry Adoption: Perspectives from Rural China by Kay Johnson
9 Intercountry Adoption and Child Welfare in Guatemala: Lessons Learned Pre and Post Ratification of the 1993 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption by Kelley McCreery Bunkers, and Victor Groza
10 Ethiopia at a Critical Juncture in Intercountry Adoption and Traditional Care Practices by Kelley McCreery Bunkers, Karen Smith Rotabi, and Benyam Dawit Mezmur
11 Maternal Thinking in the Context of Stratified Reproduction – Perspectives of Birth Mothers from South Africa by Riitti Hógbacka
12 Exiting or Going Forth? An Overview of U.S. Outgoing Adoptions by Dana Naughton

PART 3 OUTCOMES FOR INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTEES
13 Review of Meta-analytic Studies on the Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Outcomes of Intercountry Adoptees by Femmie Juffer and Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
14 Medical Status of Internationally Adopted Children
by Laurie C. Miller
15 Cognitive Competence, Academic Achievement, and Educational Attainment Among Intercountry Adoptees - Research Outcomes From the Nordic Countries by Monica Dalen
16 Families with Intercountry Adopted Children: Talking About Adoption and Birth Culture by Femmie Juffer and Wendy Tieman
17 Post-Racial Utopianism, White Color-Blindness and “the Elephant in the Room”: Racial Issues for Transnational Adoptees of Color by Tobias Hübinette

PART 4 THE DEBATE
18 The Debate by Elizabeth Bartholet and David Smolin

PART 5 PRAGMATISTS: IMPROVING THE PROCESS
19 Best Practices in Implementing the Hague Convention
by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi
20 Intercountry Adoptions and Home Study Assessments: The Need for Uniform Practices by Thomas M. Crea
21 Understanding and Preventing Intercountry Adoption Breakdown by Jesús Palacios
22 Openness and Intercountry Adoption in New Zealand
by Rhoda Scherman
23 All Grown Up: Rise of the Korean Adult Adoptee Movement and Implications for Practice by Hollee McGinnis
24 Truth, Reconciliation, and Searching for the Disappeared Children of Civil War: El Salvador’s Search and Reunion Model Defined by Carmen Mónico and Karen Smith Rotabi
25 Looking to the Future by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi"

On the basis of a review of the existing literature on popular and solidarity economy as well as an empirical study including structured and semi-structured interviews and partici- pant observation, the aim of the article is twofold. First, we present the four institutional paths that led to the political and legal recognition of solidarity economy (SE) and its enrollment in public policies in Ecuador. Second, we suggest a typology of SE initiatives that arises from those four institutional paths. In the light of the ideal-type proposed by EMES and the work of Coraggio et al. (2015), we identify the main distinctive features of the four models, regarding their legal forms, type of mission, governance structure, and resources, among other criteria. These models are then illustrated in different fields of activity, both established and emerging ones, in the Ecuadorian landscape.

This paper asks to what extent urban agriculture projects based on principles of Solidarity Economics are in a position to develop new economic forms based on solidarity—rather than competition—thereby posing an alternative model to neo-liberal capitalism. It seeks to understand how solidarity economies function concretely, what motivations, interests and goals move people to establish and participate in such initiatives, and what utopias they associate with such projects. It focuses on the Swiss gardening cooperative ortoloco, which can be defined as a peri-urban organic farm organised on principles that go beyond the supply of food to embrace explicit political aims and to realise an alternative economic model. For two years of existence, ortoloco has successfully applied these principles on its economic practice, but also constantly questioned them and developed them further. Extending the diversity of products and activities, and intensifying practical and theoretical cooperation with similar projects, the activists hope to apply the tested models on an ever-broader range of economic activities and spheres of living together in general. Whilst neo-liberal policies are presented almost worldwide as natural and without alternative, these projects are living proof that other ways of thinking and acting are possible.

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The purpose of this paper is to articulate a set of ethical standards for international volunteer tourism. The standards are focused on promoting fair trade learning principles in the management and operation of volunteer programmes. Because of the unique social mission, research, and evaluation capacities of higher education, we propose first applying these principles specifically to international volunteer programmes operating at the university-community nexus. These standards have emerged through a collaborative, in-person and online process during the last two years with input by numerous concerned global citizens, international education practitioners and researchers, nongovernmental organization representatives, and community members. The document shared below represents current ‘best practice’ for maximizing the benefits and minimizing the negative impacts of volunteer tourism programmes for both host communities and volunteers.

London: Zer0 Books, 2020. Edited with Corinna Burkhart and Nina Treu

Degrowth is an emerging social movement that overlaps with proposals for systemic change such as anti-globalization and climate justice, commons and transition towns, basic income and Buen Vivir. Degrowth in Movement(s) reflects on the current situation of social movements aiming at overcoming capitalism, industrialism and domination. The essays ask: What is the key idea of the respective movement? Who is active? What is the relation with the degrowth movement? What can the degrowth movement learn from these other movements and the other way around? Which common proposals, but also which contradictions, oppositions and tensions exist? And what alliances could be possible for broader systemic transformations?

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