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Anthropological perspectives of Založila/Published by
solidarity and reciprocity Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakul-
tete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana
Uredil/Edited by University Press, Faculty of Arts)
Peter Simonič
Izdal/Issued by
Recenzenta/Reviewers Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno
Olivier Givre antropologijo (Department of
Ljupčo Risteski Ethnology and Cultural
Anthropology)
Zbirka/Book series
Zupaničeva knjižnica, št. 47/ Za založbo/For the publisher
Zupanič's collection no. 47 Roman Kuhar, dekan Filozofske
ISSN 1855-671X fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani/The
e-ISSN 2630-3922 dean of the Faculty of Arts, University
of Ljubljana
Lektorica/Proofreading
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Odgovorni urednik zbirke/ Naklada/Number of copies printed
Editor in chief 300 izvodov
Boštjan Kravanja
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Editorial board Vasja Cenčič
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Peter Simonič
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DOI: 10.4312/9789610601463
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Anthropological
perspectives of solidarity
and reciprocity
Edited by Peter Simonič
Ljubljana 2019
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Table of Content
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Peter Simonič Alter Political Economy 9
Jadran Kale Komunjsko, Skupno, and 19
Seljansko - Legacy of Eastern
Adriatic Commons
Peter Simonič Communitarian Institutions 31
in Trenta Valley
Silvia Contessi, Co-Producing Participatory 45
Cristina Grasseni Guarantee Systems –
Limits and Potentials
HOSARALMO Cooperative Practices: Survival 57
Collective Strategies, “Aternative” Movements
or Capitalism Re-Embedding?
Valentina New Transition: Community 69
Gulin Zrnić, Gardens and Civic Engagement
Tihana Rubić in the City of Zagreb
Irene Sabaté Reciprocity and Solidarity 83
in the Face of the Spanish Home
Repossessions Crisis
Cirila Toplak For a New Social Order. 95
A Genealogy of Self-Management
in SFRY
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Nina Vodopivec Solidarity and the Feelings of 113
Belonging: Textile Industrial
Workers in the Socialist and
Post socialist Slovenia
Gorazd Kovačič Trade Unions Fragmentation 131
in Slovenia. Causes and Lessons
Tanja Ahlin 'Repaying the Suffering' 145
in Transnational Families
from Kerala, South India
Eugene Richard Looking for a City with 159
Sensenig Foundations: Intentional
Urban Communities as
a Christian Response to Justice
and Power
Boštjan Kravanja The Spirit of Social Cohesion 173
and Sharing in Relation to
Dance Consumption Practices
in Contemporary Swing Dance
Communities
Dan Podjed, Orgunity as a New Form of 189
Daša Ličen Cooperation: Case Studies of Two
Environmental NGOs
Name Index 209
Summaries 215
About the Authors 221
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Alter Political Economy
Peter Simonič
Sociologists such as Simmel, Tönnies, Durkheim, or Weber defined
various kinds of solidarity: national, religious, guild, and kinship. In
the 19th and 20th century, their ideas and identifications competed
in the political arenas across Europe and USA (Stjernø 2004). In their
theories, the economy as social process was identified with the econom-
ics as (socially conditioned) theory (Hopkins 1957), and their habitus
was nation-state (Graeber 2004; comp. Smith 2010 [1876]). Taking
into account the diversity of human natural and cultural environ-
ments, and historical shifts in the political and economic conditions,
we realize that the phenomenon of stress and group forming, belong-
ing and sharing must be much older and more diverse than the idea of
solidarity, the promise of the French Revolution.
The concept of solidarity is ambiguous: it includes mecha-
nisms of taxes and redistribution, charity, altruistic contributions
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