The Cooperative Trilemma: Co-operatives between Market, State and Civil Society

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Gijselinckx ◽  
Patrick Develtere
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Market State

A Brexit from neoliberalism?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryn Jones ◽  
Michael O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Housing Finance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market State

This conclusion brings together key points from the alternative macro-paradigms in Part I, the institutional parameters and reforms to these, discussed in Part II– and the political and economic re-structuring advocated in Part III. It argues that a new social democracy is needed to achieve the rebalancing of the market-state-civil society relationship distorted by neoliberalism. This shift, should be based on democratization and accountability in the social and economic spheres as well as in conventional politics. A paradigm and practice drawn from and substantially driven by a social base rooted in recent social movements and more progressive NGOs. Applied to ‘fictitious commodity’ fields such as housing, finance and employment, its discourse would emphasis gender and practical environmental issues to ground a post-neoliberal politics in more relevant and popular concern than the stagnant, tendentious and often obscure abstractions of economic discourse. It is argued that the related ideas and policies could, at the least, achieve a regime change within contemporary capitalism. A change comparable to the social democracy which successfully displaced the market hegemony of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

scholarly journals Voices of the Governed: towards a theory of the translocal

Organization ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Political ◽  
Market State ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Development State ◽  
Political Economic

In this article I want to interrogate the political, economic, and social conditions that enable the extraction of natural and mineral resources from Indigenous and rural communities in Africa, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific. The end of direct colonialism and the emergence of the development state did not necessarily translate into forms of local sovereignty for these communities who bore the brunt of development. I describe the emergence of resource wars in the postcolonial era and how organizational technologies of extraction, exclusion and expulsion lead to dispossession and death. I conclude by discussing possibilities of resistance and develop the notion of translocal resistance where local actors most affected by development are able to forge a series of temporary coalitions with international and national groups in an attempt to promote some form of participatory democracy. The article advance debates on postcolonialism by developing theoretical insights from translocal modes of resistance that open up new analytical spaces marked by particular configurations of market, state and civil society actors.

scholarly journals Metagoverning Aquaculture Standards: A Comparison of the GSSI, the ASEAN GAP, and the ISEAL

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phatra Samerwong ◽  
Simon R. Bush ◽  
Peter Oosterveer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Sustainable Aquaculture ◽  
Governance Arrangement ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Sustainable Seafood ◽  
Certification Standards ◽  
Market State ◽  
International Social ◽  
Aquaculture Production

The presence of multiple eco-certification standards for sustainable aquaculture is thought to create confusion and add cost for producers and consumers alike. To ensure their quality and consistency, a range of so-called metagovernance arrangements have emerged that seek to provide harmonized quality assurance over these standards. This article aims to answer the question of how these metagovernance arrangements differ and whether they actually reduce confusion, with a focus on aquaculture in Southeast Asia. We compare three metagovernance arrangements, the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative, the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Good Aquaculture Practices, with respect to differences in their goals, their levels of inclusiveness, and their internal governance arrangement. The findings indicate that these metagovernance arrangements differ with respect to their goals and approaches and do not seem to directly reduce confusion. More critically, they represent a new arena for competition among market, state, and civil society actors in controlling the means of regulation when aiming for more sustainable aquaculture production.

scholarly journals A Igreja e as CEBs: velhas realidades, novas abordagens

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (258) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Jomar Ricardo da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market State

As alternativas ao modelo sócio-econômico de matizes neoliberais, imposto à sociedade brasileira como único caminho possível, têm sido um dos aspectos ausentes no que se refere às perspectivas das organizações da sociedade civil. Trata-se, neste artigo, de compreender as dimensões de força existentes em organizações sociais, revisitadas com novos paradigmas e possuidoras de potencialidades inexploradas de mudanças e resistências. Este trabalho, a partir das contribuições apresentadas por filósofos modernos de vertente contratualista sobre conceitos como mercado, Estado e comunidade, analisa a recorrência do princípio regulatório concernente a esta última, por pesquisadores contemporâneos, na atual fase do capitalismo, denominada de pós-modernidade, na tentativa de superar graves problemas sociais. Reavalia como as experiências das CEBs forneceram à sociedade um significativo impulso a esse desiderato emancipatório. Termina por considerar que as iniciativas econômicas, ao conjugar o mercado com os interesses comunitários, favorece o advento da inclusão e justiça social.Abstract: The alternatives in the social economic system, embedded in neoliberal features and imposed on the brazilian society as the only viable proposition, has been one of the absent aspects concerning the perspectives for the organizations of the civil society. Hence, this paper aims to investigate the force dimensions existing in the social organizations through new paradigms to find out unexplored potentialities of resistences and changes. Also, based on contributions on market, State, and community provided by contratualist philosophers from the modern Age, this study analyzes the recurrence to regulatory principles related to community in by contemporary researches in thecurrentphaseofcapitalism,calledpost-modernity,ontheattempttoovercome serious social problems. It reviews the experiences the CEBs provide to the society as a significative thrive to an emancipating goal. Finally, it considers that the economic initiatives combining with communitarian interests have contributed to inclusion upcoming and social justice.

scholarly journals Civil society and social order: demarcating and combining market, state and community

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Offe
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Market State ◽  
Economic Globalisation

Social change is currently occurring in three directions: political democratisation, economic globalisation, and the spread of postmodern culture. The consequent problems cannot be treated by any of the three known methods of macrosocial regulation: the state, the market, the community. ‘Civil society’ has been assigned the role of synthetic and pluralistic rationalisation.

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