CLCF is glad to share that the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies is now out in Internet Policy Review, and we invite you to read it (editors: Belen Albornoz, Ricard Espelt, Rafael Grohmann, and Denise Kasparian).
This special issue situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership. In response to the concentration of power within platform capitalisms, DSE highlight grassroots and institutional initiatives that democratize digital infrastructures and governance. Drawing on traditions of the social and solidarity economy, free and open-source cultures, and feminist and decolonial technoscience, the special issue explores how communities across the world build technological sovereignty from below. The contributions collectively advance a plural understanding of digital solidarity economies by addressing infrastructural arrangements, situated practices, and institutional experimentation as key sites through which digital economies oriented toward the reproduction of life are being built.
Table of Contents
Belén Albornoz, Faculty of Public Politics, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Ecuador
Ricard Espelt, Faculty of Economics and Business, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Rafael Grohmann, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Toronto, Canada
Denise Kasparian, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dwayne Ansah, Utrecht University
Mai Ishikawa Sutton, Commons Network
Sophie Bloemen, Commons Network
Bonno Pel, Utrecht University
Laura Eccher, Gran Sasso Science Institute
Alejandro Fortuny-Sicart, University of Vigo
Arthur Guichoux, University of Liège
Celso Alexandre Souza de Alvear, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Marcelo Alves de Souza, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Camilla de Godoi, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Flávio Chedid Henriques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Tara Merk, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)/University of Paris II
Laura Lotti, Independent researcher
Nick Houde, Independent researcher
Morshed Mannan, University of Edinburgh
Nuria Vega-Rodríguez, Open University of Catalonia
Leonardo Foletto, University of São Paulo
Daniel Santini, University of São Paulo
Mònica Garriga Miret, femProcomuns
David Gómez Fontanills, femProcomuns
Xavier Martínez Serrano, femProcomuns
Enric Senabre Hidalgo, University of Barcelona
Hiu-Fung Chung, University of Toronto
Ho Lam (Roland) Cheng, University of Toronto
Alexandra Belén Gualavisí, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Daniel Vizuete-Sandoval, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Jeongone Seo, Rutgers University
Tawfiq Ammari, Rutgers University
Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat, University of Toronto
Priyank Chandra, University of Toronto
Fibin Filal, Independent researcher
Anne-Pauline de Cler, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM-CNRS)
CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor
Rafael Grohmann is a Co-lead and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. Rafael is the leader of the DigiLabour initiative and founding editor of the Platforms & Society journal.
