Summary

This work, based on research within the framework of the international ICSEM project on social enterprise models, presents an analysis of the different organisational forms of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Chile. The analysis addresses the main concepts used, the historical trajectory and the main laws that regulate them, to reach a definition of the main models of SSE organisations in Chile.

Bio note

Michela Giovannini is a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow at the CES, integrating the research group POSTRADE (Social Policies, Labour and Inequalities) and its sub-group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL). She holds a PhD in Local Development and Global Dynamics at the University of Trento, Italy (2014) and a Laurea (equivalent to an MA) in Political Science (University of Padova, 2001). Her main studies focused on social and solidarity economy organizations in Latin America, such as indigenous grassroots initiatives in Mexico and their contribution to buen vivir, and recyclers' organizations in Chile. Her current research project is devoted to analysing the political dimension of social and solidarity economy organizations connected to anti-austerity social movements in Spain and Portugal. Her research interests focus on social and solidarity economy in Latin America and Europe, indigenous socioeconomic initiatives, community development, anti-austerity social movements.y.