C2 Edited work
Enacting Community Economies Within a Welfare State (2020)

Eskelinen, T., Hirvilammi, T., & Venäläinen, J. (Eds.). (2020). Enacting Community Economies Within a Welfare State. MayFly. http://mayflybooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ECEWAWS_final_e-book.pdf

JYU authors or editors

Eskelinen, Teppo
Hirvilammi, Tuuli

Publication details

All authors or editors: Eskelinen, Teppo; Hirvilammi, Tuuli; Venäläinen, Juhana

ISBN: 978-1-906948-51-1

eISBN: 978-1-906948-53-5

Publication year: 2020

Number of pages in the book: 173

Publisher: MayFly

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

Persistent website address: http://mayflybooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ECEWAWS_final_e-book.pdf

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/68218

Abstract

The Nordic welfare states, despite their history of successful welfare generation, have recently experienced a penetration of capitalist market relations to ever new spheres of life. Also their failure to create ecologically sustainable welfare models has been undeniable.

Simultaneously, community economies have emerged as a source of ideas and practices on what ‘the economy’ fundamentally could signify. In their multiple manifestations, community economies are about enacting the economy differently, on a grassroots level.

Yet community economies have typically not been analysed as inspirations and challenges to the future of the welfare state. This is despite that, to some extent, they share the same ethos with Nordic welfare states, based on the values of universalism and decommodification.

This book presents a number of empirical case studies of community economies in the context of a Nordic welfare state to better understand the potential of community economies and the interaction and friction with state governance, and more generally the conditions in which community economies and Nordic welfare states can co-exist and cooperate.

Could a Nordic welfare state be an enabling platform for community economies to diffuse? And could community economies show the welfare states a future based on decommodification and respect of the ecological limits?

The authors of the book are Finnish academics with an activist leaning, representing a number of different academic disciplines.

Keywords: welfare state; sustainable development; ecological sustainability; social economy; sharing economy

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