Social Economy in China and the World

Preface Part I: Rethinking Economy 1. Social Economics and Economic Anthropology: Challenging Conventional Economic Thinking and Practice John Clammer 2. Mapping Social and Solidarity Economy: The Local and Translocal Evolution of a Concept Craig Borowiak 3. Rethinking the Politics of the Mainstream Co-op Movement Carl Ratner Part II: Social Economy in the World 4. Workers' Cooperative Movement in Argentina Andres Ruggeri 5. La Alameda: "Guerrilla" Struggles to Make the Argentine Economy Social Doris Lee 6. Democratizing Capital: Social and Solidarity Finance in Quebec Marguerite Mendell 7. The Struggle for Public Power in the United States Richard H. Rudolph 8.Workers' Cooperatives in Italy - Between Solidarity and Autocratic Centralism Devi Sacchetto and Marco Semenzin 9. Developing Solidarity Economy in Asia: Innovations in Policy and Practice Denison Jayasooria Part III: Social Economy in Chinese Societies 10. Zhoujiazhuang Village: A Study of the Heritage of the People's Commune Pun Ngai, Lu Huilin and Li Changjiang 11. Debating the Rural Cooperative Movement in China, the Past and the Present Yan Hairong and Chen Yiyuen 12. "Yingxiu Mother" as Agent of Community Development: Case Study of a Practice of Community Economy in Sichuan Post-disaster Rebuilding in China Hok Bun Ku and Yuna Ma 13. Local Economy Growing at a Steady Pace: The Case of the Peasant Farming Project by The Taiwan Rural Front Pei-hui Tsai and Chi-wei Liu 14. In the Struggle over Urban Space: The Solidarity Economy Movement and Urban Utopianism in Hong Kong Terence Yuen and Pauline Chan