Chair: Catherine Alexander
09:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00 – 12:00 Panel 1: Locating the Third Sector Economy?
David Lewis (LSE Social Policy)
Elusive spaces and organisational forms: a partial recovery of the history of the 'third sector idea'
Abstract (pdf)
Full paper (pdf)
Graham Haughton (Geography, University of Hull)
Discovering how (not) to evaluate community economic development
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Discussion led by Catherine Alexander (Goldsmiths, London)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Panel 2: From trade unions to community unions
Tom Wilson/ Carl Roper (TUC)
Community Unionism in the TUC
Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, Anthropology)
The return of the moral economy in trade union studies. A critique from anthropology
Abstract (Word)
Full paper (pdf)
Discussion led by Jane Wills (Geography, QMW)
15:30-16:00 Tea
16:00-18:00 Panel 3: Ethnographies of the Social Economy
Tom Hall (Cardiff University, Sociology)
Contesting economies: an ethnography of Cardiff City centre (provisional title)
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Nicola Frost (City University London, Cultural Policy and Management)
Grant culture and the business of community: Indonesian organisations in Sydney
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Full paper (pdf)
Discussion led by Ben Campbell (Anthropology Department, Durham University)