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The SESRN is a team of community and university-based people who
collaborated to do research on the social economy, focusing
primarily on Atlantic Canada. Students contributed extensively
too, as research assistants and through their own thesis
research. To find out more about our team and our network, visit
About Us.
From September 2005 to June 2011, the
SESRN conducted and disseminated research that reflected the
interests and concerns of community partners in the social
economy. This also advanced knowledge in the field of
social economy research. Working in 6
research clusters and a Node office at Mount Saint Vincent
University, and across 65 projects, the SESRN pursued the goals
of contributing to:
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The theory and
practice of the social economy in Atlantic Canada;
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Internal
bridging, bonding, and capacity building within the Social
Economy and the academy;
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The use of the
term “social economy” as a policy-relevant framing concept
in the region;
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Linking
Atlantic partners (community and university-based) with
others in Canada & the world
On this site, look for photos, power point
presentations, discussion of individual topics, audio and video
files and much more! We hope that this site will continue to be
a resource for everyone interested in the social economy. We
will not be adding materials after June 2011 but we will
continue to add to
Social Economy Space (SE Space).
There, you will be able to download materials resulting both
from the work of the network, and from other social economy
researchers and practitioners.
Our research has shown that there can be
no doubt that the social economy is a vital contributor to the
economic and social well-being of individuals, families, and
communities in this region. The social economy is oriented to
different values, preferring more participatory and inclusive
governance and management structures, and employing distinctive
criteria for success. The rich space that is social economy
deserves recognition for its economic, social, and
(increasingly) environmental contributions to the fabric of our
society. There is still much to learn and we hope that our work
plays a part in encouraging further explorations and debates
about the social economy in Atlantic Canada and beyond. Among
other avenues,
the Social Economy of Atlantic Canada Blog
is a forum for discussion – Go ahead, start talking!
We thank the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for funding us
over this period and we acknowledge with gratitude and awe the
incredible commitment of time, in-kind resources, and money from
the community and academic partners. Government folk also
contributed to the work and took an active interest in what we
were doing. Over the past 6 years, in each of the Atlantic
Provinces, we have seen policy and/or program
initiatives informed by work done by this network.
- Leslie Brown,
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Mount Saint Vincent
University.
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