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Social Movements and Solidarity Economy: New Confluences in Research and Action
Social Movements and Solidarity Economy: New Confluences in Research and Action
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)
Language: English, French and Spanish
Session Type: Oral
And if practices were ahead of theories? Indeed, in the field there are multiple links between social movements and solidarity economy, but dialogues between specialists in both areas remains too rare. This mutual ignorance is no longer sustainable. Like the social actors, researchers in social and solidarity economy have a lot to learn from those who dedicate themselves to social movements studies and vice versa. The separation between these two areas of study is due to an historical Western-centrism installed in social sciences. It is possible to emancipate from it by a sociology of emergences and by an epistemology of the south. A first step to go in this direction is to revisit the conceptions of solidarity, economy and movement. Rethinking these categories also highlights the importance of institutionalization processes whose complexity has to be studied beyond the simplifying schemes through which they have often been interpreted. Therefore, this panel seeks to explore new hybridizations encouraging a creative research program involving case studies from different continents as well as theoretical proposals.
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