Cooperatives offer great potential in providing for common needs and aspirations. In the vast available literature on their experiential practices, they provide for systemic paths for development trajectories and address ‘intersecting inequalities’. Yet, being at the same time association and enterprise, they face collective action challenges that need special attention. In the first part, the document discusses the place that the Post 2015 Millennium Development Framework (MDGs and pre- SDGs) could give to cooperatives. Selected cases are brought in to highlight what cooperatives offer in terms of approach to sustainable, peaceful and inclusive development. A discussion on cooperatives’ potential and challenges for the Post 2015 Development goals (SDGs) follows. Document presented at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Expert Group Meeting on Cooperatives in 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Slides presentation at the ILO - ICA Joint Conference 2019 presenting the book 'Cooperatives and the future of work', Geneva. Observe carefully the archival photos taken at the ILO Archive, in slides 12 and 13. Cooperatives had equal status than trade unions and other businesses. They even had more personnel. This took place during Albert Thomas' presidency and was the original tripartite structure. The slides and the book chapter shows the evolution of the concepts of 'work' and of 'cooperative' along the 100 Years of the International Labour Organization.
This conference paper is an step in the ongoing effort to link theory to real life experience, practice and cases, providing solutions to the migrant crisis. In theory, Ulrich Beck's world risk society, cosmopolitan solidarity and new reflexivity about late modernity, together with other approaches argued and built by interviewees themselves, provide the basis to focus on real examples of collective action in both developed and developing countries. The goal is to contribute to the theory of agency and of geographies of care, to build the concept of "reflexive agency". Paper presented at the EADI ISS 2021 Conference, Seed Panel 89 "Migrant struggles for social justice".
"While the Mercosur states have remained attached to a Westphalian image (Mittelman, 1996: 197), regional networks may provide the necessary information and coordination in policy-making that the former cannot. Business actors' participation has taken place to the extent described in this paper partly because of the lack of mechanisms for representation and participation in policy-making, whether a supra-national bureaucracy or a regional parliament. The question that lies ahead is whether Mercosur's "open regionalism" should limit its "openness" to the economic sphere, or whether extend it to involve the regional population at large. This question bears a systemic implication, for Mercosur's long-term sustainability rests on its legitimacy and the broader support and involvement of society."
Presentation to the SEPS, Ecuador, Superintendencia de Economia Popular y Solidaria, on inclusive value chains, comparing various cases in the coffee sector in Guatemala. Research was originally done with Bruno Silvestre in 2014, presented at CASC in 2014 and published in Spanish in 2016. After which I continue working on coffee, cooperatives and inclusive development.