Green Citizenship and the Social Economy

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ABSTRACT Contemporary green political theory has paid little attention to the role that economic organisations can play in the cultivation and expression of green citizenship. This paper argues that the ethos and structure of organisations within the social economy – for example, cooperatives, mutuals and voluntary associations – appear particularly well suited for the development of relevant dispositions, skills and capacities. The associative reform of both the welfare state and the for-private-profit economy therefore offers a challenging and creative strategy for enhancing green citizenship. Citizenship has only recently become the subject of systematic attention within green political theory (Smith, 1998; Barry, 1999; Dobson, 2003). This is surprising given the significance placed on themes such as individual responsibility, empowerment, participation and communal politics within green academic and activist literature. One of the key questions facing theorists is the extent to which our political, social and economic institutions need to be restructured in order to support the cultivation and expression of green citizenship – understood here as the recognition of duties in relation to the

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