Social Economics and the Solidarity City

Social Economics and the Solidarity City explores the impact and potential of the social economy as a site of urban struggle, political mobilization and community organization. The search for alternatives to the neoliberal logic governing contemporary cities has often focused on broad and ill-defined political, social and environmental movements. These alternatives sometimes fail to connect with the lived realities of the city or to change the lives of those exploited in neoliberal restructuring.

This book seeks to understand the capacity of the social economy to revitalize urban ethics, local practices and tangible political alterity. Providing a critical account of the social economy and its place in urban and state restructuring, this book draws on a range of international cases to argue that the social economy can be made a transformative space. Evaluating community enterprises, social finance, and solidarity economics, author Brendan Murtagh maps the possibilities, contradictions and tactics of moving the rhetoric of the just city into local and global action.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The rules of the game 3. Urban politics and alternative economics 4. Social and solidarity economics 5. Enterprises, legitimace and pursuit of the social 6. Actually existing solidarity economies 7. Scale, replication and money 8. Conclusions

About the author

Brendan Murtagh is a Reader in Urban Planning at Queen’s University Belfast, and has been involved in numerous research projects and books.

Summary

Social Economics and the Solidarity City explores the potential of the social economy as a site of urban struggle, political mobilization and community organization.

Product details

• Authors: Brendan Murtagh, Brendan (Queens University Belfast Murtagh, Murtagh Brendan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367665357
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66535-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, Business and Management, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, Urban & municipal planning, Interdisciplinary studies, urban economics, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Regional / urban economics