The Diversity of Solidarity Economies: A View from Danish Minority Gangs
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The Diversity of Solidarity Economies: A View from Danish Minority Gangs. / Jerne , Christina .
In: Journal of Business Anthropology, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2023, p. 6-36.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Diversity of Solidarity Economies:
T2 - A View from Danish Minority Gangs
AU - Jerne , Christina
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The term “solidarity economy” is most commonly deployed to describe altruistic and socially beneficial ways of doing business, often in opposition to ones that are less so. Drawing on a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork among Danish minority gangs, this article seeks to open the discussion on solidarity economies beyond these traditional understandings by adding the perspective of gangs. It explores the more exclusive and violent aspects of solidarity economies, drawing on the analytical lenses of reciprocity and pooling. These dimensions afford the tracing of the conditions of solidarity within that group, rather than the mere verification of its absence or presence. I conclude that (A) solidarity economies are empirically multiple, operating on different and (a)synchronous planes as well as expressing themselves in different types; (B) solidarity is analytically beneficial for reading for economic difference; and lastly that (C) in this context, solidarity economies are inhabited as sites of struggle between two opposite, but specular forms of cultural fundamentalism.
AB - The term “solidarity economy” is most commonly deployed to describe altruistic and socially beneficial ways of doing business, often in opposition to ones that are less so. Drawing on a year and a half of ethnographic fieldwork among Danish minority gangs, this article seeks to open the discussion on solidarity economies beyond these traditional understandings by adding the perspective of gangs. It explores the more exclusive and violent aspects of solidarity economies, drawing on the analytical lenses of reciprocity and pooling. These dimensions afford the tracing of the conditions of solidarity within that group, rather than the mere verification of its absence or presence. I conclude that (A) solidarity economies are empirically multiple, operating on different and (a)synchronous planes as well as expressing themselves in different types; (B) solidarity is analytically beneficial for reading for economic difference; and lastly that (C) in this context, solidarity economies are inhabited as sites of struggle between two opposite, but specular forms of cultural fundamentalism.
U2 - 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6917
DO - 10.22439/jba.v12i1.6917
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 6
EP - 36
JO - Journal of Business Anthropology
JF - Journal of Business Anthropology
SN - 2245-4217
IS - 1
ER -
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