Solidarity Economy: Alternative Spaces, Power and Politics (Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation)

Solidarity economy-based alternative spaces result from an interface among structural factors, institutional regimes and forms of collective action that mobilise narratives of change, collective identities and non-capitalist economic practices.

This book analyses how solidarity economy initiatives develop alternative spatialities as counterpower to mainstream economy. Based on case studies in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, it elaborates on how different scales of solidarity economy-based alternative spaces result from an interface among structural factors, institutional regimes and forms of collective action that mobilise narratives of change, collective identities and non-capitalist economic practices.

Ana Margarida Esteves is an Integrated Researcher at the Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-IUL) and Guest Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy/ECSH, School of Social Sciences, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal.

Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems in Bristol (UK) and Research Collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Change (Ce3C) in the Faculty of Sciences at Lisbon University, Portugal.

Leonardo Leal is Senior Lecturer at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) in Maceió, Brazil.

Luciane Lucas dos Santos is an Associate Researcher at Centre for Social Studies (CES), and Collaborator and Senior Lecturer in the Ph.D. Programme in Democracy in the 21st Century at CES/FEUC - Faculty of Economics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal.