By looking critically at racial asymmetries in economics and drawing attention to the agency of black women, Caroline Houssein has sought to contribute to two relevant fields: Feminist Political Economy and Black Political Economy. Hossein has also discussed the role of Black Social Economy when looking at co-operatives. In this text written with Megan Pearson – “Black Feminists in the Third Sector: Here Is Why We Choose to use the term Solidarity Economy” - Hossein raises a number of questions. Based on these, we intend to: 1. problematise the question of agency in the Social and Solidarity Economies; 2. discuss the relationship between the solidarity economy and the concept of community-based economies; 3. reflect on how a Black Political Economy can densify the critical reflection currently taking place in the context of the Solidarity Economy.

To participate in this workshop, you must read the article Hossein, C. S., & Pearson, M. (2023, Jan 17th). Black Feminists in the Third Sector: Here Is Why We Choose to use the term Solidarity Economy. The Review of Black Political Economy, 50(2). 222–248

Activity organised by the Study Group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL/CES) as part of the Series of Reading Workshops Rethinking the Economy Beyond Capitalism.

Luciane Lucas dos Santos is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, in the thematic line “Democracy, Justice and Human Rights”. From 2018 to March 2021, she co-coordinated the “Democracy, Citizenship and Human Rights” Research Centre. She is currently coordinator of the curricular unit and lecturer on the doctoral programme “Human Rights in Contemporary Societies” (CES/IIIUC) and guest lecturer on the doctoral programme “Democracy in the 21st Century”. (CES/FEUC). She is the local PI for the project “BioTraCes - Biodiversity and Transformative Change for Plural and Nature-Positive Societies” (HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-09/Grant 101081923), led by Wageningen University. She also participates in two other projects as part of the team (one from FCT and the other from the European Commission). She co-coordinated the Study Group on Solidarity Economy (ECOSOL-CES) from October 2019 to October 2023, and is now co-coordinator of POLICREDOS, a Working Group that interweaves the themes of gender, religion and politics.
 

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