1st Edition

Cooperatives and Community Development

Edited By Vanna Gonzales, Rhonda Phillips Copyright 2013
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

In celebration of cooperatives’ contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Year of the Cooperative. Today, as in the past, cooperatives have proved effective in bringing people and organizations together to accomplish a broad array of goals related to fostering social and economic innovation, protecting communities against... Read more

1. Introduction and Preface Rhonda Phillips and Vanna Gonzales  2. Cooperatives in Non-agricultural Sectors: Examining a Potential Community Development Tool  Sanjib Bhuyan and F. Larry Leistritz  3. Cooperatives in Rural Community Development: A New Framework for Analysis  Kimberly Zeuli, David Freshwater, Deborah Markley and David Barkley  4. A different kind of social enterprise: social cooperatives and the development of civic capital in Italy  Vanna A. Gonzales  5. So Happy Together or Better Off Alone? Women's Economic Activities, Cooperative Work, and Employment in Rural Paraguay  Patricia J. Cohn, Matthew S. Carroll and Jo Ellen Force  6. Are worker-owned cooperatives the brewing pots for social capital?  Wilson Majee and Ann Hoyt  7. Collaboration, New Generation Cooperatives and Local Development  Norman Walzer and Christopher D. Merrett  8. Cooperative Community Development: A Comparative Case Study of Locality-Based Impacts of New Generation Cooperatives  Curtis W. Stofferahn

Biography

Vanna Gonzales (Ph.D. Political Science) is an Assistant Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation and a faculty affiliate of the Schools of Public Affairs and Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Her research and teaching interests include social policy and reform, governance and organization theory, and the development of the social economy in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on economic justice and social and cultural innovation. She is founder and coordinator of Social Economy Arizona and currently directs ASU’s Certificate in Economic Justice.

Rhonda G. Phillips, Ph.D., AICP, CEcD is a professor, a planner and community economic developer focused on fostering innovative development approaches. Her research and service outreach includes assessing community well-being and quality-of-life outcomes, and balanced approaches to planning and development.