The new cooperativism

(EN) This study aims to analyze cooperative option for solving current problems in Turkeys' tea production, by discussing traditional cooperatives, new cooperatives, private companies, and state-owned enterprise comparatively. Another aim of this study is to discuss the possibility of an alternative model of production-consumption, beyond free-market. Findings of this study obtained from face-to-face semi-structured in-depth interviews made with managers (also producers) of cooperatives, and state-owned enterprise.

Cooperative practices and values that challenge the status quo while, at the same time, creating alternative modes of economic, cultural, social, and political life have emerged with dynamism in recent years. The 15 articles in this issue of _Affinities_--written by activists, coop practitioners, theorists, historians, and researchers--begin to make visible some of the myriad modes of cooperation existing today around the world that both directly respond to new enclosures and crises and show pathways beyond them. Prefiguring other possibilities for organizing life and provisioning for our needs and desires, we call these cooperative experiments "the new cooperativism."

Table of Contents for the Affinities issue on 'The New Cooperativism' (Guest edited by Marcelo Vieta)

Editorial

The New Cooperativism HTML PDF
Marcelo Vieta

Historicizing and Theorizing the New Cooperativism

The Cooperative Movement in Century 21
John Curl

Commons and Cooperatives
Greig de Peuter, Nick Dyer-Witheford

Sisyphus and the Labour of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production, and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management
Stevphen Shukaitis

A Buzz between Rural Cooperation and the Online Swarm
Andrew Gryf Paterson

The Sangham Strategy: Lessons for a Cooperative Mode of
Production
Sourayan Mookerjea

Practicing the New Cooperativism

Decomposition and Suburban Space
Conor Cash
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Dara Greenwald

Solidarity Food Economies?
J Howard

Cooperatives and the 'Bolivarian Revolution' in Venezuela
Tom Malleson

Social Centres and the New Cooperativism of the Common
Andre Pusey

The New University Cooperative: Reclaiming Higher Education: Prioritizing Social Justice and Ecological Sustainability
E. Wilma van der Veen

Researching the New Cooperativism
Recycling Technologies and Cooperativism: Waste-for-Life
Caroline Baillie, Eric Feinblatt

Italian Social Cooperatives and the Development of Civic Capacity: A Case of Cooperative Renewal?
Vanna Gonzales

The Universe of Worker-Recovered Companies in Argentina (2002-2008): Continuity and Changes Inside the Movement
Héctor Palomino, Ivanna Bleynat, Silvia Garro, Carla Giacomuzzi

Praxis, Learning, and New Cooperativism in Venezuela: An Initial Look at Venezuela's Socialist Production Units
Manuel Larrabure