Abstract
This paper employs the concept of 'social economy' to reflect on the authors' experiences in rural reconstruction efforts in Mainland China, including work on peasant cooperatives and community-supported agriculture. In practice, the social and the economic can never be clearly separated. Economic problems, which may superficially appear to be independent, are in fact over-determined by all kinds of social and cultural factors, so a holistic perspective of 'social economy' is needed to re-embed the economic into its social context. Such a perspective can help expand the space of our practice and reflection thereon, in particular helping practitioners to understand the difficulties encountered in rural reconstruction.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 271-282 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | China Journal of Social Work |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |
Keywords
- new rural reconstruction
- perspective
- social economy