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This paper explores emerging community development and planning practices in three Massachusetts cities through a social and solidarity economy (SSE) framework. More established in Canada (Quebec), Europe, and Latin America, SSE is a set of theories and practices promoting democratic, just, and sustainable development. SSE has emerged as an explicit alternative to neoliberal capitalism, which often ... read moreconstrains imagining and realizing more democratic, just, and sustainable possibilities for society. SSE is closely aligned with the more transformative approaches to community development and is about planning for and creating the possible. Cases of emerging SSE work in Springfield (Wellspring), Worcester (Solidarity and Green Economy Alliance), and Boston (emerging local food economy), Massachusetts demonstrate the potential and challenges for planning for the possible using the SSE framework.read less
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