Présentation de Blanca MIEDES UGARTE, Celia SANCHEZ LOPEZ (Univ. de Huelva), "Beyond social economy : distinctive characteristics of social-ecological production and exchange initiatives", dans l'Atelier 2 "L’impact social, approches polydisciplinaires" de la XVe conférence INTI XVe Conférence Annuelle Internationale INTI « Économie Sociale et Solidaire dans les territoires », 22-25 novembre 2016, Charleroi et Liège, Belgique.

1. May 10, 2016
Beyond social economy: distinctive
characteristics of socio-ecological
production and exchange initiatives
Blanca Miedes Ugarte
Celia Sánchez lópez
miedes@uhu.es

2. Summary
• About this work
• Multidisciplinary focus: the ”Doughnut" problem
• SE initiatives as a new concept of innovation
• Main features of SE initiatives that distinguish them from
both the capitalist economy and the various forms of
conventional social economy.
• Conclusions
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3. Creative (creativa) and Useful
(útil) Ecónomy
FAIR, respectful TO PEOPLE
AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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Action-Research project developed by a group of students from
the course of Expert of Solidarity Economy and social
entrepreneurship of the UHU in collaboration with the C3IT.
Participatory mapping

4. 6
The ”Doughnut" problem
Kate
Raworth
Economic growth (GDP increase) is not the real problem, but
scarcity, degradation and inequality
Multidimensionalité

5. 7
9 planetary
boundaries
Johan Rockström
and 28 other
scientists published in
the journal
"Nature"(2009)
Source: Kate Raworth

6. 9
11 social
priorities Rio
+20 summit:
water, food, health, energy,
employment, voice
(democracy), resilience,
education, economic income,
gender equality, equality social.
Source: Kate Raworth

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How to keep our
place in the safe
and just area?
Kate Raworth

8. A lot of decisions to take in all scales!
• Production (useful, creative, circular economy)
• Energy (removable, clean)
• Time policies (paid-unpaid work distribution, life cycle approach)
•Income policies (wages, basic income)
• Tax reforms (against evasion and fraud)
• Financial reforms (limits)
• Territorial model (internal & external cohesion)
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9. A new concept of innovation
• Current people, in current places,
facing common problems (food, energy,
transport, business, employment...).
• social currencies, time banks, social-urban gardens, co-
working spaces , ethical finance, consumer cooperatives for
ecological and fair trade, innovative cultural activities, new
cooperatives for the production of renewable energy ...
• Most of them are gathered in short
circuits integrating in the best
possible way social markets (Hernandez,
2012).
Film by Cyril Dion
People solutions to “Doughnut” problems

10. A framework for evaluate/ making
decisions together…
Source: Kate Raworth

11. 3
What are main features of SE initiatives
that distinguish them from both the
capitalist economy and the various forms
of conventional social economy?

12. Characteristics SE inititatives
• The principle of social justice joins the
principle of environmental justice.
• Life styles and values are mayor
concerns.
• Consciousness of place arises.
• Design and execution in the very same
process: ”prosumers”, networking.
• Knowledge (ICT) as a factor of economic
and political empowerment.

13. Life stiles and values
•SE initiatives arise in an attempt
to answer the question how to
make a living? in a broader
framework of the old question
about how to live?
@Norismo

14. Life stiles and values
•External changes to be enough
disruptive should be guided by
an internal change in the
systems of beliefs, preferences
and worldviews informing
lifestyles (Crompton & Kasser, 2009;
Rokeach, 1973; Schwartz, 1992; Emmons,
1989).
@Norismo

15. “Place” as the space in which people
resolve their needs, coexist, co-
construct their identity, share
projects and design a common
future.
Getting back to the
"consciousness of place"
Place, understood as a collective
heritage guaranteeing biological and
social reproduction of the community
(Alberto Magnaghi, 2010)

16. Multiscale networks for socioecological transition
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• Towns in transition (Hopkins, 2011)
• Degrowth Networks (Fournier,
2008)
• “Slow” movements (Geof, 2008)
• Other….
Local cosmopolitism

17. DIVERSITY as key factor: local markets, complementary
alternative production, consumption, financial, cultural circuits...
Jordi García: Picture taken at the seminar Commons, FUHEM-ecosocial, 17/11/12
Avoiding any kind of
”monoculture” fostering
local resilience.
Complementarity
Complexity (fuzzy borders)
Resilience

18. Good news: MAKING and SHARING
develop intelligence!
Meaning
Connection
Learning
Design and execution in the same
process

19. How we think we think => How we believe societies should
decided
Hierarchy
(Brain gives orders
to the rest of the body)
Neural network
(The whole body “thinks”)
Neurosciences
=>
A new brain metaphor

20. "Smart cities”
need intelligent citizenship
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Source: http://www.qtorb.com
Building a new meaning
meaning of
“togetherness”
•Spaces:
• For interaction.
• For tools.
• For training.
Knowledge= Empowerment

21. Political empowerment
@Norismo
• Perceived self-efficacy: people's beliefs
about their capabilities to produce
designated levels of performance that
exercise influence over events that
affect their lives.
• It determine how people feel, think,
motivate themselves and behave
(Bandura, 1998).
Main source of empowerment:
Sense of self-efficacy

22. Conclusion
• Big transformative potential.
• But still has a limited scope and deficient
organizational and technological operating
modes.
• One of main challenges knowledge
institutions face in the coming decades is to
support the development of these new socio-
ecological activities:
• Legal, economic, social and political framework
(valorisation, impact assessment)
• Tools (technological, organizational, emotional)
• Core concerns of the territorial intelligence
projects.

23. May 10, 2016
Beyond social economy: distinctive
characteristics of socio-ecological
production and exchange initiatives
Blanca Miedes Ugarte
Celia Sánchez lópez
miedes@uhu.es