Sustainable Community Movement Organizations - 9780367342234

Taylor & Francis

Sustainable Community Movement OrganizationsSolidarity Economies and Rhizomatic Practices\nAuthor(s): Francesca Forno, Richard R. Weiner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367342234, 978-0367342234\nSynopsis\nThis volume shines a light on Sustainable Community Movement Organizations (SCMOs), an emergent wave of non-hierarchical, community-based socio-economic movements, with alternative forms of consumption and production very much at their core.\n\nExtending beyond traditional ideas of cooperatives and mutualities, the essays in this collection explore new geographies of solidarity practices ranging from forms of horizontal democracy to interurban and transnational networks. The authors uniquely frame these movements within the Deleuzian concept of the rhizome, as a meshwork of alternative spaces, paths and trajectories. This connectivity is illustrated in case studies from around the world, ranging from protest m.