engleski

Solidarity economy from rural periphery

The sprawl of solidary economy throughout globe comprises the plethora of initiatives in a myriad of fields, from agriculture and food provision to design and IT sector ; from community supported agriculture and artisanal beer social enterprise to programmers’ or designers’ cooperatives. Endeavour of mapping solidary economy actors and pioneers in Croatia, we established the importance of social entrepreneurship o. In the last decade, there is an emergence of different kinds of social entrepreneurships over the country. In this paper we will present the example of social entrepreneurship emerged from deep rural periphery of Zadar County. Non-governmental organization (NGO) which founded social entrepreneurship in Gračac, employing several low employable workers addresses a salient however in many aspects invisible issue of interlocked social setting of class, gender, and social environment. Through the case of NGO Prospero and its social entrepreneurship we will analyse how rural women employment in hand with socially responsible production in rural periphery changes the perspective of otherwise socially excluded women severely exposed to overall lack of perspective other than outmigration. We conducted the qualitative research and collected data using the semi-structured interview with the social entrepreneurship’s head and employees. The field research was conducted in autumn 2021. in the Lika region and its outskirts. The results show that the key proponent of local initiatives is an enthusiastic individual who often experiences more barriers then support from local institutions. However, recognizing the substantial obstacles for unemployed women and building the conditions for some of them to develop the manufacture in solidary and cooperative manner shows the significant indicator of the ways how solidary economy can unlock the perspective of socially excluded social strata in rural periphery.

solidarity economy ; rural periphery

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