Social justice: a democratic issue
Themes : Social justice, peace and solidarity
The market mechanism excludes the most disadvantaged members of society, young people, the elderly, people with foreign origins, women, etc. It leaves very little place for social justice mechanisms which would allow all those excluded to assert their rights and benefit from an equitable distribution of wealth. The right to housing, access to land, food and healthcare, finding or returning to work, social cohesion; the democratic issues thrown up by these questions – and many others depending on whether you are in the North or South – cannot be the prerogative of a single authority imposing its solutions from above or a predatory market mechanism. The challenge, as laid out in the ADELS manifesto, is to “reinvent democracy rooted in real citizen participation in formulating collective choices and assessing public policies, with the focus on the principles of cooperation, pooling, solidarity and the construction of social compromises.”
Grouped and cooperative housing, collective land acquisition solutions, social grocery stores, short circuits, childcare and homecare services, integration through work, and savings and consumer cooperatives are all social justice solutions rooted in the mechanisms of reciprocity, cooperation and solidarity. Based on democratic, or even participatory, governance practices, they empower people and can give them the capacity to question elected representatives and co-construct public policies. However, social justice is only meaningful when tied to economic justice as well as environmental justice, which seeks to solve the environmental conflicts that affect the same vulnerable people.
Law | 6 publications | 3 Videos | 2 pedagogical tools | 9 case studies | 18 Analyses/working papers/articles | One charter/manifesto | One public contribution | A thesis | 10 articles
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6 publications
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The Informal Economy Revisited Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future
Martha Chen, Françoise Carré, Routledge, London, UK, July 2020
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Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing: The Case of the Atkinson Housing Co-operative
Jorge Sousa, University of Toronto Press, Canada, 2013
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To cook a continent. Destructive extraction and the climate crisis in Africa
Nnimmo Bassey, Pambazuka Press;several African countries, January 2012
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Cultivating Food Justice. Race, Class, and Sustainability.
Alison Hope Alkon, Julian Agyeman, The MIT Press, October 2011
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Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices and Vision from Latin America
Luisa Antolin, Bénédicte Allaert, Martina Nuti, August 2011
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La Via Campesina position paper: Small Scale Sustainable Farmers Are Cooling Down The Earth
2009
3 Videos
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Building The Solidarity Economy In The Context of COVID & Black Lives Matter
Virtual WSFTE 2020
June 2020
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November 2018
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November 2018
2 pedagogical tools
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Diagramme : Segmentation of Informal Employment : the Pyramid of Risk
WIEGO
2015
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Social and Solidarity Economy: Our common road towards Decent Work
Reader for the ILO Academy on Social And Solidarity Academy 2011
Nancy Néamtan, Mathieu de Poorter, Leandro Pereira Morais, Bénédicte Fonteneau, Fredrick Wanyama, Carlo Borzaga, Giulia Galera, Tom Fox, Nathaneal Ojong, October 2011
9 case studies
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[ASEC SSE Academy] : 4P Model in Urban Sanitation. Building Public-Private-People(s Partnerships
May 2020
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Participation of People in Developing Sustainable, Social & Solidarity Economy: ASSEFA, India
Kumar Loganathan, November 2019
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Waste Management Innovations for Food Security, Climate Change Mitigation and Clean Habitat
Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias
Dajopen Waste Management, 2018
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Campaign for housing, community organising and hope (MTST)
Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST), 2018
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Harnessing the role of rural organizations in social protection. An inventory of prActices.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
Directed by Igor Vinci, 2017
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The Association Terre de Liens: An example in Echausses, France of multi-purpose property
Martine Theveniaut, May 2010
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Leaf-Business by Aged Women in Rural Village
Asian Dialogue on Oeconomy Case Study Series No. 2010- 05
Tadaaki Ooe, 2010
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Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz. Research brief #12, Spring 2008
Christopher M. Bacon,, V. Ernesto Mendez, Maria Eugênia Flores, Martha Brown,, 2008
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How the indigenous communities recovered their land in the Highlands after independence, and organized themselves to manage their land in a sustainable way, recovered ancestral techniques and developed a local economy in Zimbabwe.
Laura ARNALTE, October 2006
18 Analyses/working papers/articles
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Informal Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis: A global picture of sudden impact and long-term risk
WIEGO, July 2020
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The impact of COVID-19 on Social Economy Enterprises
2020 SSE Report
June 2020
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A UN framework for the immediate socio-economic response to COVID-19
May 2020
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Accelerating progress: An empowered, inclusive and equal asia and the pacific
UNESCAP, March 2019
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Labour rights in the gig economy - an explainer
Research Note n°7 - Parliament of Victoria
Igor Dosen, Michael Graham, June 2018
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Public policies for food sovereignty
Think piece series Food for Thought No.1
Sylvia Kay, Emily Mattheisen, Nora McKeon, Paola De Meo, Ana Moragues Faus, March 2018
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Yvon Poirier, January 2016
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Redefining and combating poverty Human rights, democracy and common goods in today’s Europe
Trends in social cohesion, No. 25 Council of Europe Publishing
AA.VV., 2015
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Social and Solidarity Economy as a Tool for Social Justice
Policy brief Issue n°4
ESCWA United Nations, 2014
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Fabian Society review, Volume 126—No. 2
Steve Bendle, Patrick Conaty, 2014
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4th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy University of Antwerp, 24-26 October 2013
Leandro Pereira Morais, Miguel Juan Bacic, October 2013
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Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013
Emery Igiraneza, May 2013
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Social and Solidarity Economy Academy, 8-12 April 2013, Agadir, Morocco
Leandro Pereira Morais, Youssef Alaoui Solaimani, Nancy Néamtan, Roberto Di Meglio, Fredrick Wanyama, April 2013
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Enough for everyone’s need. Reflections on a Non-violent Economy
Papers of the International Conference Held in Bhopal
Edited by Paul Schwartzentruber, 2010
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International Labour Office. – Dar es Salaam: ILO, 2009 1 v. (CoopAfrica working paper ; no.6)
Faustine K. Bee, September 2009
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Towards an Integrated Concept of Sustainability
Background paper for the Conference Sustainable Development Planning, Goethe Institute, Riga, November 2007
Joachim H. Dr. Spangenberg, November 2007
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Income security: why unions should campaign for a basic income
Guy Standing, 2004
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Solidarity economy: challenges of cooperative agrarian reform in Brazil
Journal of Rural Cooperation, CIRCOM, Paris, França, v.29, n.2, p.141-152, 2001
Farid Eid, 2001
One charter/manifesto
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COVID-19: Globalising solidarity is the response we need now!
Ripess Intercontinental statement
April 2020
One public contribution
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[ASEC SSE Academy] Jagran Jan Vikas Samiti Promoting Complementary Health Care Practices through SSE
June 2020
A thesis
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Master’s Thesis in International Development Studies Graduate School of Social Sciences University of Amsterdam
Fernando Cesar Pires Baptista, January 2011
10 articles
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Pandemic speeds largest test yet of universal basic income
Article of Narure.com, 10 July 2020
July 2020
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Michel Bauwens, April 2020
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ASEC Partners & COVID-19 Crisis
Denison Jayasooria, April 2020
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The Women Who Welcomed Immigrants
Article of Yes! Magazine, 27 mars 2020
Kate Schatz, March 2020
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Why Co-ops and Community Farms Can’t Close the Racial Wealth Gap
Article of Yes! Mafazine, Nov 09, 2018
Zenobia Jeffries, November 2018
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Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the Grassroots
Article of Dissent Magazine, Fall 2018
H. Jacob Carlson, Marnie Brady, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, November 2018
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4963, November 2018
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Food & Solidarity: Leveling Up the Fight Against Hunger
Article in Medium, August 2018
Marcus Hill, August 2018
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In Lavrio, a self-governed camp of Kurdish exiles
Article of Kedistan, March 7; 2018
March 2018
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Tilos, Greece: the first island in the Med to run entirely on wind and solar power
article of The Guardian, 15/06/2017
Rachel Howard, June 2017