Social and Solidarity Economy

Peter Utting is international coordinator of the Center for Social Economy (Centro para la Economía Social or CES), based in Nicaragua, and a senior research associate of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). Until August 2014 he was the deputy director of UNRISD, where he coordinated international research projects on social and solidarity economy and corporate social responsibility. He was instrumental in establishing the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy in 2013. Recent publications include Business Regulation and Non-State Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development? (co-edited with Darryl Reed and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, 2012), The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change (co-edited with Shahra Razavi and Rebecca Varghese Buchholz, 2012) and Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance (co-edited with José Carlos Marques, 2010).

By examining the conditions for scaling up social and solidarity economy, this book brings the politics of emancipation into the sustainable, inclusive and right-based development agenda. It does so in a reflexive and inspiring manner, pointing to spaces and strategies for capacity building, institutional innovation and social change, without neglecting either the internal constraints or the oppositional forces.

• Introduction: The challenge of scaling up social and solidarity economy - Peter UttingPart I History, theory and strategy1. Social and solidarity economy in historical perspective - Jean-Louis Laville2. Prometheus, Trojan horse or Frankenstein? Appraising the social and solidarity economy - John-Justin McMurtry3. Beyond the business case: a community economies approach to gender, development and social economy - Suzanne Bergeron and Stephen Healy4. Can social and solidarity economy organisations complement or replace publicly traded companies? - Carina Millstone5. Scaling the social and solidarity economy: opportunities and limitations of Fairtrade practice - Darryl Reed6. The potential and limits of farmers' marketing groups as catalysts for rural development - Roldan Muradian7. Institutionalising the social and solidarity economy in Latin America - José Luis Coraggio8. Rebuilding solidarity-driven economies after neoliberalism: the role of cooperatives and local developmental states in Latin America - Milford Bateman9. Enabling the social and solidarity economy through the co-construction of public policy - Marguerite Mendell and Béatrice AlainPart II Collective action and solidarity in practice10. Beyond alternative food networks: Italy's solidarity purchase groups and the United States' community economies - Cristina Grasseni, Francesca Forno and Silvana Signori11. Social and solidarity investment in microfinance - Paul Nelson12. Balancing growth and solidarity in community currency systems: the case of the Trueque in Argentina - Georgina M. Gómez13. State and SSE partnerships in social policy and welfare regimes: the case of Uruguay - Cecilia Rossel14. Extending social protection in health through SSE: possibilities and challenges in West Africa - Bénédicte Fonteneau15. Enabling agricultural cooperatives in Uganda: the role of public policy and the state - Justine Nannyonjo16. Embeddedness and the dynamics of growth: the case of the AMUL cooperative, India - Abhijit Ghosh17. Taking solidarity seriously: analysing Kerala's Kudumbashree as a women's SSE experiment - Ananya Mukherjee-Reed18. Demonstrating the power of numbers: gender, solidarity and group dynamics in community forestry institutions - Bina Agarwal