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(2010). Editorial for guest-edited issue of Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, 4 (1), pp. 1-11.
Cooperative practices and values that challenge the status quo while, at the same time, creating alternative modes of... more
Cooperative practices and values that challenge the status quo while, at the same time, creating alternative modes of economic, cultural, social, and political life have emerged with dynamism in recent years. The 15 articles in this issue of _Affinities_--written by activists, coop practitioners, theorists, historians, and researchers--begin to make visible some of the myriad modes of cooperation existing today around the world that both directly respond to new enclosures and crises and show pathways beyond them. Prefiguring other possibilities for organizing life and provisioning for our needs and desires, we call these cooperative experiments "the new cooperativism."
Table of Contents for the Affinities issue on 'The New Cooperativism' (Guest edited by Marcelo Vieta)
Editorial
The New Cooperativism HTML PDF
Marcelo Vieta
Historicizing and Theorizing the New Cooperativism
The Cooperative Movement in Century 21
John Curl
Commons and Cooperatives
Greig de Peuter, Nick Dyer-Witheford
Sisyphus and the Labour of Imagination: Autonomy, Cultural Production, and the Antinomies of Worker Self-Management
Stevphen Shukaitis
A Buzz between Rural Cooperation and the Online Swarm
Andrew Gryf Paterson
The Sangham Strategy: Lessons for a Cooperative Mode of
Production
Sourayan Mookerjea
Practicing the New Cooperativism
Decomposition and Suburban Space
Conor Cash
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative
Dara Greenwald
Solidarity Food Economies?
J Howard
Cooperatives and the 'Bolivarian Revolution' in Venezuela
Tom Malleson
Social Centres and the New Cooperativism of the Common
Andre Pusey
The New University Cooperative: Reclaiming Higher Education: Prioritizing Social Justice and Ecological Sustainability
E. Wilma van der Veen
Researching the New Cooperativism
Recycling Technologies and Cooperativism: Waste-for-Life
Caroline Baillie, Eric Feinblatt
Italian Social Cooperatives and the Development of Civic Capacity: A Case of Cooperative Renewal?
Vanna Gonzales
The Universe of Worker-Recovered Companies in Argentina (2002-2008): Continuity and Changes Inside the Movement
Héctor Palomino, Ivanna Bleynat, Silvia Garro, Carla Giacomuzzi
Praxis, Learning, and New Cooperativism in Venezuela: An Initial Look at Venezuela's Socialist Production Units
Manuel Larrabure
