TY - JOUR
AU - Ailenei, Oana
AB - This paper attempts to provide a clear perspective on defining the social economy today. It addresses the question of the relevance of a unifying concept with its need to embrace the existing diversity of approaches and concepts. To this end, it surveys both historical and contemporary academic literature, as well as practice-rooted conceptualisations of the social economy. The first section outlines the analytical challenges to a reconstruction of the social economy concept. The second enhances the historical and space-bound diversity in theorising and institutionalising social economy practices. Section 3 focuses on contemporary reconceptualisations of the social economy in Francophone and Anglo-Saxon literature, while section 4 then suggests improvements to current 'social economy' concepts, by linking them to both the lessons of history and the views of social economy practitioners today.
TI - Social Economy, Third Sector and Solidarity Relations: A Conceptual Synthesis from History to Present
JF - Urban Studies: An International Journal of Research in Urban Studies
DO - 10.1080/00420980500279794
DA - 2005-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/social-economy-third-sector-and-solidarity-relations-a-conceptual-C0Vrg2zC1f
SP - 2037
EP - 2053
VL - 42
IS - 11
DP - DeepDyve
ER -