Description 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.