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Towards a global history of consumer co-operation

Mary Hilson, UCL Silke Neunsinger, ARAB http://www.arbark.se/forskning/projekt/co-op/ coop@arbark.se. Towards a global history of consumer co-operation. Regions covered by expert Geographical scope of the project. Nikola Balnave Patrizia Battilani Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens

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Towards a global history of consumer co-operation

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  1. Mary Hilson, UCL Silke Neunsinger, ARAB http://www.arbark.se/forskning/projekt/co-op/ coop@arbark.se Towards a global history of consumer co-operation

  2. Regions covered by expert Geographical scope of the project

  3. Nikola Balnave • Patrizia Battilani • Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens • Bhaswati Bhattacharya • Natalia Burnasheva • Eric Calderwood • María Eugenia Castelao Caruana • Suleman Chambo • Kay Wah Chan • Keri Davies • Bernard Degen • Espen Ekberg • Dulce Freire • Katarina Friberg • Rekha Ramesh Gaonkar • Esther Gicheru • Geert van Goethem • Mary Ip • Florian Jagschitz • Hyungmi Kim • Akira Kurimoto • Simon Lambersens • Catherine LeGrand • Marcel van der Linden • Ian MacPherson • Francisco José Medina-Albaladejo • Alain Mélo • Tito Menzani • Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Sigismundo Bialoskorski Neto • Tony O’Rourke • Greg Patmore • Joana Dias Pereira • Michael Prinz • Rita Rhodes • Robert Schediwy • Linda Shaw • Suroto • Griselda Verbeke • Rachael Vorberg-Rugh • Mirta Vuotto Participants (Stockholm, May 2012)

  4. 1) Why do people form co-operatives? 2) Co-operation as a global phenomenon: connections and entanglements 3) Diversity in time and space Main questions

  5. Elanto bee, Helsinki 1) What is consumer co-operation?

  6. Beyond Rochdale

  7. “several individuals or households pay into a joint fund, used to purchase goods for subsequent distribution among these individuals or households” (van der Linden 2008: 133) Consumer co-operation as budget-pooling

  8. The co-operative grocery store Picture: Finnish Labour Archives, Helsinki

  9. Late C19th spread of co-operative ideas • 1930s-1960s state involvement • 1970s-1990s liberalisation and increased competition • 2000- co-operative renaissance? 2) Co-operative history in relation to global history

  10. 3) Entanglements and connections: transnational co-operative exchange

  11. Charles Gide, 1847-1932 Toyohiko Kagawa, 1888-1960 Emmy Freundlich, 1878-1948 (picture Austrian National Library) 1) Migration of people...

  12. 2) ... and movement of goods

  13. Legacies of co-operative history: tools of the state or sites of resistance? • Neo-colonial influences, e.g. churches, overseas aid? 3) States and empires

  14. 4) International organisations

  15. Methodological nationalism • Euro-centrism The challenges of global history

  16. “a post-capitalist, post-liberal (and post-state-socialist) understanding of democracy, production, rights and knowledges, a liberated cyberspace and a new global solidarity.” Peter Waterman, “ An emancipatory global labour studies is necessary! On rethinking the global labour movement in the hour of furnaces”, International Institute of Social History research Paper 49 (2012), pp. 18-19. An emancipatory global co-operative studies?

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