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Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation: Expanding the international debate
International Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 34, Issue 4, October 2025.Abstract In a world experiencing profound environmental, technological, and demographic shifts, welfare systems are being fundamentally reshaped, highlighting social innovation (SI) as crucial for addressing emerging societal challenges. This research examines the distinctive Latin American approach to SI, exploring its role in transforming regional ...
Maurizio Busacca, Mario Coscarello
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Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the specific features of collectivization in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on Slovenia as one of its constituent republics. Through a bottom‐up approach, it examines selected cases from the countryside surrounding the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, between 1949 and 1953.
Lev Centrih
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A few drops of plurality: New cooperativism beyond categorisation [PDF]
, 2022 Christian Franklin Svensson
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, 2015 A majority of the world’s agricultural production takes place on small farms (less than 2 hectares). India has one of the smallest average farm sizes with over 68 per cent of its farms being marginal in size (below 1 hectare). Small farm production is constrained by challenges of accessing lumpy inputs of management and asset specific machinery ...
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Going back to go forwards? From multi-stakeholder cooperatives to Open Cooperatives in food and farming [PDF]
, 2017 Many authors have proposed cooperatives as one of the preferred governance structures for realising alternative food systems, being recommended both in farming and also downstream at consumer level.
Ajates Gonzalez, Raquel
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Left nationalism in the French Basque Country: From civic opposition to critical participation
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1035-1051, October 2025.Abstract Research on territories which have long been subjected to nationalist violence has tended to focus on the most radical manifestations of these struggles and their electoral and institutional consequences. In certain configurations, the involvement of nationalist entrepreneurs in socio‐economic initiatives, environmental causes or women's ...
Thomas Chevallier, Xabier Itçaina
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Survey and Assessment of Laws on the Informal Sector [PDF]
This study classifies the laws affecting the informal sector and assesses the extent of the empowerment of the sector based on the provisions in the laws that allow for organization, decision making mechanisms and transfer of power from the traditional ...
Macaranas, Bonifacio S. +2 more
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Las relaciones de género en cooperativas agropecuarias de Camagüey
Agrisost, 2016 RESUMEN Para alcanzar el empoderamiento de las mujeres en el sector rural de modo que estén presentes en las diferentes instancias y niveles de dirección, se hace necesaria su participación equitativa y sostenible en estos procesos.
Maribel Almaguer Rondón +3 more
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Social centres and the new cooperativism of the common [PDF]
, 2010 In recent years a network of self-managed social centres has been spreading across the UK and further afield. They take their inspiration from an array of previous experiments in autonomous space, including the centri sociali in Italy and the Autonome ...
Pusey, A
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Rereading Ujamaa, Rethinking Freedom
Development and Change, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 572-594, May 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the compatibility of Ujamaa's conceptualization of freedom with the limits of the sovereign state. This is done by examining popular enactments of Ujamaa in Tanzania in the 1960s, which resulted in what, for a moment, was a quasi‐utopian realization of post‐colonial freedom.
Stephanie Wanga
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