“Politics without politics”: Affordances and limitations of the solidarity economy’s libertarian socialist grammar.

Frère, Bruno

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“Politics without politics”: Affordances and limitations of the solidarity economy’s libertarian socialist grammar.

Frère, Bruno

2019 • In The Everyday Resistance. French Activism at the Beginning of the 21th Century

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solidarity economy; democracy; libertarian socialism; micro public space; power; ordinary citizenship; politic; parties; trade unions; grammar

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[en] The “solidarity economy” is generally thought of as comprising four distinct classes of activity: community services consultancy, microfinance, Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS), community services and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Because they try to emphasise the citizen’s activism, these solidarity initiatives are thought to be deeply political in the philosophical sense of the term. But today an important question arises regarding the kind of formal political institution that might speak in the name of all these initiatives. Some commentators see solidarity initiatives as new economic models with the potential to solve the ethical impasse of advanced capitalism. They are eager for academic researchers and movement leaders to reach consensus about the kind of concrete political identity such initiatives may be expected to generate. My research examines the failure to move from micro-level initiatives to an overarching “macro” political entity. This chapter, using the insights of pragmatic sociology, aims to understand how the obstacles to this goal are rooted in the libertarian socialist grammar of the solidarity economy itself.

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Frère, Bruno ; Université de Liège > Faculté des sciences sociales > Sociologie des identités contemporaines

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“Politics without politics”: Affordances and limitations of the solidarity economy’s libertarian socialist grammar.

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2019

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The Everyday Resistance. French Activism at the Beginning of the 21th Century

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Palgrave, New York, United States

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Sociology

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