The Jack Quarter Lectureship on Social Economy: "Solidarity Economies, Direct Democracy, and Lifelong Learning: Lessons from Argentina"
Abstract: My goal in this presentation is twofold, conceptual, and methodological. On the one hand, I intend to address the concepts of solidarity economies, direct democracies and lifelong processes for accessing social justice and human rights, as they relate to the Argentinean experience. In doing so, I will simultaneously present issues that need to be looked at both from a long-and-mid-historical perspective, as well as a perspective based in our current daily lives, for which our team works with an interdisciplinary perspective. Argentina has recently experienced a change of administration, which provides a point of observation that can inform our analyses as scholar-activists and as responsible workers in our communities. Since my hope is to provide enough background information, as well as analytic tools to open a dialogue with the audience, I will also present some details of our co-elaborative methodology, based on work conducted with organizations in the social solidarity economy and cooperative sector. Our perspective as a team positions our academic work as part of a larger network and coalition of ideas and actions, situated in transformational social justice and human rights.
The Jack Quarter Lectureship on the Social Economy is in memory of the late Professor Jack Quarter, who passed away in early 2019 as full professor in the Adult Education and Community Development program, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the 鶹ý of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT).
About the speaker
Ana Inés Heras
Ana Inés Heras is a National Researcher at the National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina and also a Professor at the National University of San Martín where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of her specialty and where she coordinates the Research Program entitled ”“. She earned her MA and PhD at the University of California, Santa Bárbara, on a Fulbright scholarship at the Graduate School of Education, with an emphasis on Ethnography and Sociolinguistics. She has been developing co-elaborative research processes with workers ́cooperatives, social solidarity economy groups and community organizations for the past twenty-five years. She is also the President of the Instituto para la Inclusión Social y el Desarrollo Humano, and acts as a Board Member in the . You can read her selected publications .
