Results 41 to 50 of about 8,219 (259)
Seeds of Trust. Italy's Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale (Solidarity Purchase Groups)
Journal of Political Ecology, 2014 This article presents a case study of the solidarity economy in Italy: the Italian G.A.S. – Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, which I translate as Solidarity Purchase Groups. GAS are often conceptualized as "alternative food networks".
Cristina Grasseni
doaj +1 more source
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Reflections on the Solidarity Economy: A review of the literature
Iztapalapa, 2016 This document is part of a compilation on the different concepts, definitions and theoretical frameworks that addresses solidarity economy. Within the concepts found we can observe that among the same authors there are different perspectives due to the ...
Naím Manríquez García +2 more
doaj
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley +1 more source
The Solidarity Economy in South and North America: Converging Experiences
Brazilian Political Science Review, 2017 This article explores elements that characterize and boost the Solidarity Economy, based on a comparative analysis of experiences in Latin America and North America.
Luiz Inácio Gaiger
doaj +1 more source
Creative Economy in Solidarity Economy: A Guide for New Policies [PDF]
, 2014 This article was prepared with the purpose of analyzing solidarity economy from the standpoint of its manifestations of creativity, thus fomenting a contribution to the study of the so-called creative economy. This contribution will be investigated in Brazil, Third World country where solidarity initiatives have gained strenght since the early 2000s ...
Diego Dias Rodrigues +4 more
openaire +2 more sources
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
wiley +1 more source
"Consumo, logo existo": os sentidos do consumo na economia solidária
Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 2011 The consumption in the current society has the function of moving the economy, reaffirming capitalism as an economy model. This results in an important and contradictory question to the solidarity economy developments.
Ana Paula Grando, Márcia Pit Dal Magro
doaj
Ciências Sociais Unisinos, 2018 This text brings results of a qualitative research, carried out from an approach of systematic review of the literature on academic production regarding plural economics, having as reference the use of the plural economy construct in national and ...
Suzana Melissa de Moura Mafra da Silva +2 more
doaj +1 more source
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents findings from an Australian study investigating the practices of middle leaders responsible for facilitating school development. Despite middle leaders being increasingly recognised as essential in the development of teaching and learning in schools, middle leadership remains under‐researched and comparatively overlooked ...
Peter Grootenboer +3 more
wiley +1 more source