You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This book explores the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Latin America. It highlights the challenges and possibilities for the countries of this region, and analyzes the evolution of the Social Economy’s processes in order to ascertain its implications and social dimensions. The text also deals with solidarity alternatives in the capital market and the emergencies that occur in order to humanize the capitalist system.
Décadas de reflexão filosófica e de elaborações em várias ciências particulares sobre a libertação, tomada como objeto de investigação e ação, foram sistematizadas na obra "Filosofia da libertação: histórico, vertentes, crÃticas e perspectivas", escrita por Euclides Mance e editada pela EAB Editora. O livro é fruto de uma minuciosa pesquisa que mergulhou durante anos nas fontes originais de abordagens diversas sobre libertação. Sua leitura permite situar os diferentes aspectos dos processos de libertação e acompanhar o desenvolvimento e as rupturas de vários autores no tratamento desse objeto teórico-prático, a transformação de suas categorias analÃticas e estratÃ...
Animating this book is a twofold question: In what ways are adult and popular educators responding to various harsh economic, political, cultural and environmental conditions? In doing so, are they planting seeds of hope for and imaginings of alternative futures which can connect individuals and communities locally and globally to achieve economic, ecological and social justice? The book illustrates how transformative politics of solidarity often involve actors across vastly different backgrounds. Solidarity is therefore a political relationship that is forged through particular struggles situated in place and time across power differentials. The authors put popular education to work by desc...
Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Based on a detailed 'insider' ethnography, this study interprets the principles behind these movements and key themes such as collective buying, relationships with local producers and cons...