Co-construction or prefiguration? The problem of the ‘translation’ of social and solidarity economy practices into policy

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Abstract

By engaging with the recent experience of Latin American SSE movements, this chapter discusses three ideas. First, that SSE practices by social movements can be seen as tools for the anticipation of alternative reality/ practices, relationships and horizons—in the present. Second, that the integration of SSE practices into state policy requires the institutionalisation of SSE which renders invisible everything that does not fit in the the ‘parameters of legibility’ of the state’s policy territory. As the state seeks to achieve order and stability, policy reforms are the crystallisation in time of ongoing conflicts. Third, an adequate ‘translation’ of SSE into policy begs for a type of co-construction of policy that engages with the emancipatory call of SSE movements, thus constituting a prefigurative translation. By escaping the contours of the given reality prefigurative translation allows to venture with the SSE movements, this ‘prefigurative translation’ is part of the process of ‘organising hope’ by SSSE movements.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTowards Just and Sustainable Economies
Subtitle of host publicationThe Social and Solidarity Economy North and South
EditorsPeter North, Molly Scott Cato
Place of PublicationBristol, U. K.
PublisherPolicy Press
Pages57-71
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9781447327226
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2017

Bibliographical note

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath, UK. She is a critical sociologist, and writes about radical subjectivity; labour, social, rural and indigenous movements; Argentine and Latin American politics; autonomy; the uses of Ernst Bloch’s concept of hope; contemporary forms of utopia. She is a research partner of the 'New Politics Project' (2016-2020) at the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam; and creator and convenor of two international research networks: ‘Labour in Transition’ and ‘Women on the Verge’. Her publications include The Labour Debate (Ashgate 2002; Otonom 2006; Herramienta 2009); The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and Social Sciences for an other Politics: Women Theorising Without Parachutes (editor & author)(Palgrave Macmillan 2017).

Keywords

  • Co-construction of policy, ,
  • ‘translation’
  • hope
  • Latin America
  • organising
  • prefiguration
  • territory
  • SSE movements
  • the state policy

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