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Social Economy as Antidote to Criminal Economy: How Social Cooperation is Reclaiming Commons in the Context of Campania's Environmental Conflicts

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dc.contributor.author Caggiano, Monica
dc.contributor.author De Rosa, Salvatore Paolo
dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-14T19:37:33Z
dc.date.available 2015-10-14T19:37:33Z
dc.date.issued 2015 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9897
dc.description.abstract "This article contributes to ongoing debates on how bottom-up social cooperation can halt and reverse processes of environmental and human degradation, dispossession and impoverishment, by proposing a synchronization of resistance and of commoning practices. The article moves from the empirical case of social and ecological conflicts currently unfolding in the so-called Land of Fires, an area in Southern Italy infamous for the socio-environmental impacts of two decades of waste disposal, mismanagement and contamination. Within this context, a coalition of grassroots movements is struggling to re-sist livelihoods degradation through an alliance with anti-Mafia social cooperatives. We provide an in-depth analysis of emerging social and economic networks that connect the strategies of grassroots movements for environmental justice with the work of social cooperatives that reclaim lands and assets confis-cated to Mafia. The interests of environmental activists meet the interests of social cooperatives at the crossroad of territory reclamation with the spheres of social and economic production and reproduction. Framing the case as a cultural and physical re-appropriation of territory, we provide an analysis of strategies and limits for a symbolic and practical project of social re-appropriation of the commons (De Angelis 2012)." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject commons en_US
dc.subject conflict en_US
dc.subject crime en_US
dc.subject social movements en_US
dc.title Social Economy as Antidote to Criminal Economy: How Social Cooperation is Reclaiming Commons in the Context of Campania's Environmental Conflicts en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Theory en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Italy en_US
dc.subject.sector Global Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Partecipazione e Conflitto en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 8 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 530-554 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 2 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth July en_US


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