MARIANNA
PAVLOVSKAYA, Professor
Department of Geography, Hunter College - CUNY
Ph. D. program in Geography (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
CUNY Graduate Center
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Prof. Pavlovskaya Wins NSF Grant to Study and Map the Solidarity Economy in the United States
Prof. Marianna Pavlovskaya of the Geography Department and CUNY Graduate Center won an NSF grant to study and map the solidarity economy in the United States.
Throughout the world, solidarity economies involve economic
practices that orient themselves toward social and environmental sustainability
rather than profit maximization and competition. In the United States they
include, for example, cooperative businesses, community land trusts, credit
unions, community supported agriculture, and other businesses that prioritize
cooperation, democratic participation, and social inclusion. The solidarity
economy has substantial but unrecognized positive impacts because it helps to
increase economic activity, employment, well-being, and overall
socio-environmental sustainability by putting first the interests of the
working people, consumers, and communities. It thus might be able to influence
the formation of new models of development as we begin looking for them in the
aftermath of the current financial and economic crises. Dr. Pavlovskaya, along
with colleagues from three universities, Haverford, Drew, and Worcester State
will map, analyze, and estimate the impact of such ethical forms of production
and consumption in the United States. In addition to the national scale, her
research will examine the solidarity economy in New York City. The research is
funded by the National Science Foundation.
Project webpage https://mappingthesolidarityeconomy.wordpress.com/.