Book
Practicing cooperation: mutual aid beyond capitalism
02 Nov 2021
Abstract
Providing a new conceptual framework for cooperation as a form of social practice, Practicing Cooperation describes and critiques three U.S.-based cooperatives: a pair of co-op grocers in Philadelphia, each adjusting to recent growth and renewal; a federation of two hundred low-cost community acupuncture clinics throughout the United States, banded together as a cooperative of practitioners and patients; and a collectively managed Philadelphia experimental dance company, founded in the early 1990s and still going strong. Through these case studies, Andrew Zitcer illuminates the range of activities that make contemporary cooperatives successful: dedicated practitioners, a commitment to inclusion, and ongoing critical reflection. In so doing he asserts that economic and social cooperation must be examined, critiqued, and implemented on multiple scales if it is to combat the pervasiveness of competitive individualism.
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Details
- Title
- Practicing cooperation
- Creators
- Andrew Zitcer - Drexel University
- Series
- Diverse economies and livable worlds
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press; Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Number of pages
- 246
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Architecture, Design, and Urbanism
- Other Identifier
- 9781517909802; 1517909805; 1517909791; 9781517909796; 991019295312304721