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Esteves, A., Quintão, F & Hausmann, R (2022). Ripess-Europe and Its Political Advocacy Strategy Vis-à-Vis the EU from a ‘Social Provisioning Process’ Perspective. Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control.

A. M. Esteves et al.,  "Ripess-Europe and Its Political Advocacy Strategy Vis-à-Vis the EU from a ‘Social Provisioning Process’ Perspective", in Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control, Amsterdam, 2022

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	author = "Esteves, A. and Quintão, F and Hausmann, R",
	title = "Ripess-Europe and Its Political Advocacy Strategy Vis-à-Vis the EU from a ‘Social Provisioning Process’ Perspective",
	year = "2022",
	howpublished = "Ambos (impresso e digital)",
	url = "https://sase.org/event/2022-amsterdam/"
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AB  - This paper explores the political strategy of the European node of the Intercontinental Network for thePromotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS-Europe) as an actor in the European policy arena. It tracesand analyses the network’s attempts in mobilising, lobbying and communicating SSE claims vis-à-visincumbent policy institutions at the European Union level, with the aim to foster a more favorable institutionalenvironment for their initiatives to promote regional regenerative development. In particular, it investigates therole of institutional communication, relationship building, and policy advocacy. The analysis is based onqualitative data, collected through archival research and document analysis, interviews with key actors,network-wide surveys, participant observation at meetings and events.
Founded in 1997, RIPESS-Europe forms an international platform for SSE initiatives, to exchange know-howand support among its members, and as a common political voice to represent the interests of its members inthe public and policy sphere. As collective actions aiming to promote a ‘regenerative culture’ based on post-capitalist principles, ‘social solidarity economy’ (SSE) initiatives are part of emerging local and regionalmovements aiming to organise community-based economic projects through mutual recognition and support(Esteves 2021). A central common feature among this wide range of activities is their prioritisation ofaddressing social needs over mere financial profitability (Utting 2015). As such, SSE challenges conventionalcapitalist modes of provisioning and experiments with radical alternatives on the ground. Examples of SSEinitiatives include community-based currencies, production and consumption cooperatives, and socialenterprises (Kalogeraki et al. 2018).
As a theoretical framework, the paper uses the heterodox economic perspective of ‘social provisioningprocesses’ (SPP) (Jo and Todorova 2017; Gruchy 1987; Dugger 1996; Jo 2011; Lee 2008; Power 2004). TheSPP framework proposes to study the economy as the social process of the production, distribution, andconsumption of goods and services with the aim to meet the needs of those participating in it (Gruchy 1987).These processes are inherently social and political and are deeply shaped by contested power relations.Furthermore, SPP is based on the assumption that both structures and (social) agency shape the form ofprovisioning processes and their social and ecological outcomes (Jo 2011). The structural basis, consisting ofmaterial and non-material features, concurrently enables and constrains a space within which (social) agencycan take place. In this paper, the SPP framework is used to analyse the (counter-hegemonic) practices ofSSE as inherently political, organising in a network (RIPESS) to mobilise their social agency with the aim tocreate a structural basis that is more favourable for their alternative modes of provisioning.
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