Solidarity Cities - Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, Craig Borowiak

Solidarity Cities

Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2025
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-1601-5 (ISBN)
124,70 inkl. MwSt
Mapping the transformative effects of America’s urban solidarity economies

Solidarity economies, characterized by diverse practices of cooperation and mutual support, have long played pivotal but largely invisible roles in fostering shared survival and envisioning alternatives to racial capitalism globally and in the United States. This book maps the thriving existence of these cooperative networks in three differently sized American cities, highlighting their commitment to cooperation, democracy, and inclusion and demonstrating the desire—and the pressing need—to establish alternative foundations for social and economic justice.

 

Collectively authored by four social scientists, Solidarity Cities analyzes the deeply entrenched racial and economic divides from which cooperative networks emerge as they work to provide unmet basic needs, including food security, affordable housing, access to fair credit, and employment opportunities. Examining entities such as community gardens, credit unions, cooperatives, and other forms of economic solidarity, the authors highlight how relatively small yet vital interventions into public life can expand into broader movements that help bolster the overall well-being of their surrounding communities.

 

Bringing together insights from geography, political economy, and political science with mapping and spatial analysis methodologies, surveys, and in-depth interviews, Solidarity Cities illuminates the extensive footprints of solidarity economies and the roles they play in communities. The authors show how these initiatives act as bulwarks against gentrification, exploitation, and economic exclusion, helping readers see them as part of the past, present, and future of more livable and just cities.

 

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Maliha Safri is professor of economics at Drew University and has written for publications such as Antipode, Signs, and Environmental Policy and Governance. Marianna Pavlovskaya is professor of geography at Hunter College and coeditor of Rethinking Neoliberalism: Resisting the Disciplinary Regime. Stephen Healy is associate professor of geography at Western Sydney University and coauthor of Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities. Craig Borowiak is professor of political science at Haverford College and author of Accountability and Democracy: The Pitfalls and Promise of Popular Control.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
Zusatzinfo 2 b&w illustrations, 5 tables, 29 color plates
Verlagsort Minnesota
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5179-1601-1 / 1517916011
ISBN-13 978-1-5179-1601-5 / 9781517916015
Zustand Neuware
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