The Solidarity Economy in Search of the Common Good : Perspectives from Latin America

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25283010
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Area studies
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: Hataya Noriko 上智大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (00338435)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山本 純一 慶應義塾大学, 環境情報学部(藤沢), 名誉教授 (00276411) ; 小池 洋一 立命館大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40328018) ; 宇佐見 耕一 同志社大学, グローバル地域文化学部, 教授 (50450458) ; 重冨 惠子 都留文科大学, 文学部, 講師 (60405074) ; 新木 秀和 神奈川大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80276039)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 連帯経済 / ラテンアメリカ / コモン・グッド / 社会運動 / オルタナティブ / ブエンビビール / 民衆経済

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project focused on the activities and practices categorized as those of the “solidarity economy”, as defined in the local Latin American understanding, and analyzed their characteristics, the social movements which have led to them, and their political implications in comparison with conventional development policies.
Through a comparative analysis covering several cases in seven different countries, the study aimed to build a theory of how the institution of a solidarity economy, in itself and in coordination with the state and market, could function to realize the “common good”, which is understood to mean the benefit for most people in the country, which in turn establishes the social conditions from them to develop their lives with dignity.

Free Research Field

社会学、社会運動論