The articulation between the social and solidarity-based economy (SSE) and territory is not self-evident. For the contributions to this volume, the challenge was one of disentangling these interrelations by avoiding two pitfalls. The first, the idealist perspective, sees SSE as the magic answer to all neoliberalism-related ills. The demystifing perspective, by contrast, emphasizes the relentless routinization and isomorphism of SSE enterprises, which eventually end up resorting to market-oriented and/or public economy oriented models. Local case studies can extricate from this dilemma. Close observation of complex local configurations where public, private, associative and cooperative actors and issues are deeply entangled, enables to achieve a nuanced understanding of the territorial dynamics of the SSE. This book is the result of the International Ciriec working group on SSE and territory (ciriec.uliege.be/en/research/commission-es/themes-en-cours/theme-de-recherche-1-2). It emanates from an interdisciplinary dialogue conducted among researchers from nine countries and two continents, Europe and America. If contexts vary from one country to another, the contributions underline the capacity of SSE to elaborate original inputs to social, economic and sustainable local development. Based on original case studies, the contributions illustrate different strategies of SSE organisations in their respective territories. SSE provides an innovative answer to changes in socio-economic and political regulations, by promoting new forms of territorial cooperation. Despite the differences between the case studies, all the chapters of this book contribute towards a balanced approach to the territorial regimes of the SSE which interweaves socio-economic approaches to local and community development, analysis of SSE governance, social mobilizations and territorial policymaking.

Contents: Nadine Richez-Battesti: Introduction: Changing Social Economies in Changing Territories - Marie J. Bouchard/Tassadit Zerdani: Financing the Social and Solidarity Economy in Québec. At the Crossroads of Territorial Development and Solidarity-Based Investment - Nadine Richez-Battesti/Béatrice Chauvin: Cooperative Banks and Territories. When Anchorage Improves Performance - Xabier Itçaina/Marc Errotabehere: The Social Economy in Borderscapes. The Changing Cross-Border Dynamics of the Social Economy in the Basque Country - Andrea Bassi/Sara Fabbri: The "Farmers' Market" Phenomenon. A Survey on the Farmers' Market's Customers in the City of Cesena - Cristina Barna/Ancuta Vamesu: Social Economy and Territorial Development in Romania. The Challenge of Clustering Coops and New Social Enterprises in the Post-Communist Re-Construction of Rural Production and Trade Chains - Benito Díaz/Angel Higuerey/Mario Fagiolo/Leonardo Argüello/Fernando Aponte: Venezuela: An Outlook on SSE, Water for People and Related Public Policies - Nathalie Vallet/Simon De Nys-Ketels/Michelle Bylemans: Exploring the Conceptualization and Design of "IEP-Sites". SSE Initiatives Aiming for an Inclusive Economic Participation within Flemish Urban Cities - Susana Bernardino/Deolinda Meira/J. Freitas Santos: New Responses to (not so) Old Problems. Local Innovation in Portuguese Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) - Enekoitz Etxezarreta Etxarri/Eusebio Lasa Altuna/Anjel Mari Errasti Amozarrain/Juan Carlos Perez de Mendiguren: A Delphi Study on the Cooperativization of the Social Services in the Province of Gipuzkoa - Maurício Serva/Júlia Graeff: Social Economy and Sustainable Territorial Development. The Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Labor in Southern Brazil - Danièle Demoustier: Territorial Clusters of Economic Cooperation. New Levers for Local and Regional Regulation? - Alexandrine Lapoutte/Martine Vézina/Marie-Claire Malo: Territorial Legitimacy of Large Social Economy Enterprises. Analysis of a Speech by the President of a Cooperative Group - Xabier Itçaina: General Conclusion: Territorial Regimes and Changes in Sociopolitical and Socioeconomic Regulations.