Podcasts
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Adapting to British Columbia’s New Era & Moving Beyond: Relationship-Building, Funding, and the Non Profit SectorYou require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Adapting to British Columbia’s New Era & Moving Beyond: Relationship-Building, Funding, and the Non Profit Sector | Download this podcast | Dr. Evert Lindquist | 2013-01-17 |
| Resistance, Survival, Persistence: Canadian Nation building, Anti-Asian Racism and Cooperatives Dr. Jo-Anne Lee, Dr. Lee is an Associate Professor for the department of Women’s Studies at the University of Victoria You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Resistance, Survival, Persistence: Canadian Nation building, Anti-Asian Racism and Cooperatives | Download this podcast | JoAnne Lee | 2012-11-22 |
| Nsnukw’nukw’7a: We need friends, family, ancestors and land for life Dr. Lorna Williams, Lil’wat is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledge and Learning and an Associate Professor in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Victoria. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Nsnukw’nukw’7a: We need friends, family, ancestors and land for life | Download this podcast | Lorna Williams | 2012-10-18 |
| Carbon Democracy: Energy and Democratic Politics Professor Timothy Mitchell is a renowned scholar on political economy. His work has examined the creation of economic knowledge and the making of “the economy” and “the market” as objects of twentieth-century politics; the problems with explaining contemporary politics in terms of globalization or the development of capitalism. Dr. Mitchell, Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, recently published Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Prof. Mitchell’s presentation will address the principal themes of Carbon Democracy. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Carbon Democracy: Energy and Democratic Politics | Download this podcast | Timothy Mitchell | 2012-10-04 |
| "Getting Back to Maybe" New thoughts on social Innovation Dr. Frances Westly, Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISER) shares new insights into social innovation You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
| Dr. Frances Westley | 2012-09-18 |
| CCCBE Speaker Series - Changing the game: Vancity's journey to redefine wealth Changing the game: Vancity's journey to redefine wealth You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about CCCBE Speaker Series - Changing the game: Vancity's journey to redefine wealth | Download this podcast | Tamara Vrooman | 2012-09-18 |
| Globalization & Small Communities: An Economic History Perspective This talk examines the community impacts of national and increasingly global economics and the power associated with them, using examples mostly, but not exclusively, from Newfoundland’s coastal communities. It provides a brief overview of the development of transnational capitalism globally, considers Canadian development of resources, including just a brief mention of the Newfoundland fishery, and then through the lens of ideology and its discontents asks where we go now. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Globalization & Small Communities: An Economic History Perspective | Download this podcast | Dr. Rosemary Ommer | 2012-03-15 |
| Commodity Chain Initiatives, Power and the Democratic Promise/presentation/podcast In this lecture Dr. James Lawson explores what the democratic promise means in specific relation to transnational “commodity chains”. Recent experiments in social justice and ecological integrity (such as brand busting, boycotts, and certification schemes) have operated through existing commodity chains, in order to transform them and their effects. We need to build on what these experiments have taught us about these “corridors of power”. But we also need to ask when such effects are democratizing (whatever else they do). When do their stated intentions subvert the democratic promise, whether along the chain, or within states and cooperative institutions? And what are the implications for the very concept of democracy itself? You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Commodity Chain Initiatives, Power and the Democratic Promise/presentation/podcast | Download this podcast | James Lawson | 2012-02-23 |
| Occupy Victoria: Seeing Like a City In his presentation, Dr. Warren Magnusson discusses the occupy movement as well as his latest book, "Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City." What does it mean for people to make the city their own, and how does this relate to community-based economic initiatives? You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Occupy Victoria: Seeing Like a City | Download this podcast | Warren Magnusson | 2011-11-17 |
| Cooperatives, Peace and Security in the Sudan Samer Abdelnour, PhD candidate in Management at the London School of Economics, examines whether co-operative enterprises are an effective intervention for postwar peace building, security, and development, and if so, under what conditions might they emerge or be considered successful. Based upon fieldwork and sociological frames of analysis, Abdelnour's seminar examined the Blue Nile co-operative interventions. In 2007, the North Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commission launched 30 agricultural co-operatives for former combatants in the Blue Nile region of Sudan. A key framework of the 2005 Sudan Comprehension Peace Agreement, the co-operative approach for reintegration was selected over conventional individual-oriented reintegration programming. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Cooperatives, Peace and Security in the Sudan | Download this podcast | Samer Abdelnour | 2011-10-13 |
| Cooperatives, Peace and Security in the Sudan - Q&A Samer Abdelnour, PhD candidate in Management at the London School of Economics, examines whether co-operative enterprises are an effective intervention for postwar peace building, security, and development, and if so, under what conditions might they emerge or be considered successful. Based upon fieldwork and sociological frames of analysis, Abdelnour's seminar examined the Blue Nile co-operative interventions. In 2007, the North Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commission launched 30 agricultural co-operatives for former combatants in the Blue Nile region of Sudan. A key framework of the 2005 Sudan Comprehension Peace Agreement, the co-operative approach for reintegration was selected over conventional individual-oriented reintegration programming. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Cooperatives, Peace and Security in the Sudan - Q&A | Download this podcast | Samer Abdelnour | 2011-10-13 |
| What Does Progress Mean for our Society and Communities? Dr. Marilyn Waring is a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She received her PhD in Political Economy from the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is an author, feminist scholar, environmentalist, and social justice activist. Elected as an MP in the New Zealand Parliament at the age of twenty three, she served as Chair of the Public Expenditures Committee, Senior Government Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and on the Disarmament and Arms Control Committee. She has been a consultant for Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Yukon Territorial Government, the Ford Foundation, and the Ontario Provincial Government. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about What Does Progress Mean for our Society and Communities? | Download this podcast | Marilyn Waring | 2011-04-14 |
| Alternative Policy Groups and Transnational Counter-Hegemonic Struggle This presentation focuses on an emergent component of global civil society: alternative policy groups (APGs) that research and promote democratic alternatives to neoliberal globalization. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Alternative Policy Groups and Transnational Counter-Hegemonic Struggle | Download this podcast | William Carroll | 2011-03-17 |
| Profits vs. Purpose: Lessons from US L3C Experience From privatization to joint ventures, the lines among for-profit, non-profit, and government organizations have become increasingly blurred. Several countries have recently experimented with a new corporate form, a hybrid non-profit/for-profit corporation. Reform advocates are attracted to the hybrid form for its promised flexibility, efficiency in governance, and route to new sources of capital. Professor Horwitz will analyze the L3C experience and how it demonstrates why we might want to retain the for-profit vs. non-profit divide. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Profits vs. Purpose: Lessons from US L3C Experience | Download this podcast | Jill Horwitz | 2011-02-17 |
| Promises of Hegemony: Reflections on the Social Economy and Co-operativism Dr. Ian MacPherson's lecture is a historical analysis of the social economy and the co-operative movement. He suggests that many of the significant, sometimes intentional and some less deliberate, contributors to democratic economic theory have shaped very divergent models of co-operation in society. Additionally, historic, cultural, and geographic conditions and traditions have also played an important role in shaping co-op models. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Promises of Hegemony: Reflections on the Social Economy and Co-operativism | Download this podcast | Ian MacPherson | 2011-01-21 |
| Corporate Social Responsibility: Preserving Neoliberal Capitalism or Prefiguring Alternatives? How can we explain the upsurge in corporate social responsibility discourse (CSR) over the last decade? What can this upsurge in CSR discourse tell us about contemporary capitalism? Most importantly, what openings does CSR provide—if any—for rendering our economies genuinely just and sustainable? You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Corporate Social Responsibility: Preserving Neoliberal Capitalism or Prefiguring Alternatives? | Download this podcast | James Rowe | 2011-01-13 |
| From Rights to Responsibilities: Indigenous Nation Regeneration and Sustainable Self Determination Dr. Jeff Corntassels suggest that the pursuit of Indigenous self-determination should be repositioned away from then narrow constructs of a state-driven rights discourse toward community-centered, responsibility-based movements that focus on regenerating land- and water-based cultural practices. Sustainable self-determination offers a new global benchmark for the resurgence of Indigenous livelihoods, food security, community governance and relationships to the natural world and ceremonial life that enables the transmission of these cultural practices to future generations. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about From Rights to Responsibilities: Indigenous Nation Regeneration and Sustainable Self Determination | Download this podcast | Jeff Corntassel | 2010-11-18 |
| Time for Contrarian Thoughts: Small is Beautiful Bob Williams' presentation: "Time for Contrarian Thoughts: Small is Beautiful - Look to Italy - Empowering the Ecoregions in BC." Bob is a member of the Vancity Board of Directors. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Time for Contrarian Thoughts: Small is Beautiful | Download this podcast | Bob Williams | 2010-10-28 |
| Time for Contrarian Thoughts: Small is Beautiful - Q&A period Bob Williams answers questions following his lecture, "Time for Contrarian Thoughts: Small is Beautiful - Look to Italy - Empowering the Ecoregions in BC." Bob is a member of the Vancity Board of Directors. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Time for Contrarian Thoughts: Small is Beautiful - Q&A period | Download this podcast | Bob Williams | 2010-10-28 |
| Financial Co-operatives in the Financial Crisis: The European Experience Dr. Panu Kalmi presents "Financial Co-operatives in the Financial Crisis: The European Experience" as part of our Speaker Series. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Financial Co-operatives in the Financial Crisis: The European Experience | Download this podcast | Panu Kalmi | 2010-10-28 |
| In the Best Interests of the Corporation: Interrogating the Economic Imaginary in Business and Law A discussion of connections between judicial dissent, legal and economic discourses about corporate social responsibility, and Edward Said's work on culture and imperialism. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about In the Best Interests of the Corporation: Interrogating the Economic Imaginary in Business and Law | Download this podcast | Rebecca Johnson | 2010-09-16 |
| In the Best Interests of the Corporation: Interrogating the Economic Imaginary in Business and Law - Introduction A discussion of connections between judicial dissent, legal and economic discourses about corporate social responsibility, and Edward Said's work on culture and imperialism. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about In the Best Interests of the Corporation: Interrogating the Economic Imaginary in Business and Law - Introduction | Download this podcast | Rebecca Johnson | 2010-09-16 |
| In the Best Interests of the Corporation: Interrogating the Economic Imaginary in Business and Law - Q&A A discussion of connections between judicial dissent, legal and economic discourses about corporate social responsibility, and Edward Said's work on culture and imperialism. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about In the Best Interests of the Corporation: Interrogating the Economic Imaginary in Business and Law - Q&A | Download this podcast | Rebecca Johnson | 2010-09-16 |
| Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization - Introduction In his presentation, Dr. Stefano Zamagni, Professor of International Economics at the University of Bologna, focuses on the issue of sustainability in its purest definition: ensuring the security of human life. Widely recognized for his depth of understanding of the co-operative economy, Zamagni reasons that the seriously flawed objectivistic movement of self-interest has shaped our social and monetary policies. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization - Introduction | Download this podcast | Stefano Zamagni | 2010-06-16 |
| Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization - Part 1 In his presentation, Dr. Stefano Zamagni, Professor of International Economics at the University of Bologna, focuses on the issue of sustainability in its purest definition: ensuring the security of human life. Widely recognized for his depth of understanding of the co-operative economy, Zamagni reasons that the seriously flawed objectivistic movement of self-interest has shaped our social and monetary policies. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization - Part 1 | Download this podcast | Stefano Zamagni | 2010-06-16 |
| Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization - Part 2 In his presentation, Dr. Stefano Zamagni, Professor of International Economics at the University of Bologna, focuses on the issue of sustainability in its purest definition: ensuring the security of human life. Widely recognized for his depth of understanding of the co-operative economy, Zamagni reasons that the seriously flawed objectivistic movement of self-interest has shaped our social and monetary policies. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization - Part 2 | Download this podcast | Stefano Zamagni | 2010-06-16 |
| Global Local Movement: An international overview of the policy development to strengthen the role of Social Enterprises Rupert Downing, Co-Director of Canadian Social Economy Hub, presents as part of the Facilitating Social Enterprise seminar. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Global Local Movement: An international overview of the policy development to strengthen the role of Social Enterprises | Download this podcast | Rupert Downing | 2010-04-19 |
| The Roots of the Informal Economy in Western Society - Part 1 In this lecture, Dr. Rosemary Ommer examines the roots of the informal economy in Europe and the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest. She then turns to the impact of the first (UK) Industrial Revolution on rural society and economy and thereafter identifies modern expressions of the informal economy in BC and Newfoundland. Rosemary demonstrates that the informal economy still exists, albeit in limited form, in these places, and that it is at the heart of small-scale community flexibility and environmental sustainability. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about The Roots of the Informal Economy in Western Society - Part 1 | Download this podcast | Rosemary Ommer | 2010-04-13 |
| The Roots of the Informal Economy in Western Society - Part 2 In this lecture, Dr. Rosemary Ommer examines the roots of the informal economy in Europe and the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest. She then turns to the impact of the first (UK) Industrial Revolution on rural society and economy and thereafter identifies modern expressions of the informal economy in BC and Newfoundland. Rosemary demonstrates that the informal economy still exists, albeit in limited form, in these places, and that it is at the heart of small-scale community flexibility and environmental sustainability. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about The Roots of the Informal Economy in Western Society - Part 2 | Download this podcast | Rosemary Ommer | 2010-04-13 |
| Co-designing community and social enterprise: an experience from the North of England, UK Dr. James A. Powell shares his experience in forging innovative approaches to improve partnerships and working relationships between academics, community, and civic leaders. This strategic collaborative engagement has resulted in a significant increase in returns in sustainable third sectors or social economy streams. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Co-designing community and social enterprise: an experience from the North of England, UK | Download this podcast | James Powell | 2010-04-09 |
| Co-designing community and social enterprise: an experience from the North of England, UK - Q&A period Dr. James A. Powell shares his experience in forging innovative approaches to improve partnerships and working relationships between academics, community, and civic leaders. This strategic collaborative engagement has resulted in a significant increase in returns in sustainable third sectors or social economy streams. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Co-designing community and social enterprise: an experience from the North of England, UK - Q&A period | Download this podcast | James Powell | 2010-04-09 |
| Fostering Social Enterprise and Innovation in Canada As part of the Facilitating Social Enterprise seminar, Ana Maria Peredo (CCCBE director) and Michael Litchfield (MA law student) presented "Fostering Social Enterprise and Innovation in Canada." This presentation highlighted the linkages between social enterprise and social innovation as well as the contributions of social economy, current policy, and policy directions. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Fostering Social Enterprise and Innovation in Canada | Download this podcast | Ana María Peredo and Michael Litchfield | 2010-04-09 |
Look Back to Galilee: What can a century of kibbutz life teach Canadians about cooperation and community? - Part 1You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Look Back to Galilee: What can a century of kibbutz life teach Canadians about cooperation and community? - Part 1 | Download this podcast | David Leach | 2010-03-18 |
Look Back to Galilee: What can a century of kibbutz life teach Canadians about cooperation and community? - Part 2You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Look Back to Galilee: What can a century of kibbutz life teach Canadians about cooperation and community? - Part 2 | Download this podcast | David Leach | 2010-03-18 |
| Insurgents, Activists and Entrepreneurs: Strategies for Making Positive Social Change - Part 1 Dr. Charlene Zietsma discusses three different and often complementary pathways to responsible business: the critical, institution-destroying outsider strategies often used by activists; the institution-building strategies of insider change agents; and the different-path strategies used by entrepreneurs. She provides examples of each and discusses the challenges, contingencies, and rewards associated with each style of change. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Insurgents, Activists and Entrepreneurs: Strategies for Making Positive Social Change - Part 1 | Download this podcast | Charlene Zietsma | 2010-02-25 |
| Insurgents, Activists and Entrepreneurs: Strategies for Making Positive Social Change - Part 2 Dr. Charlene Zietsma discusses three different and often complementary pathways to responsible business: the critical, institution-destroying outsider strategies often used by activists; the institution-building strategies of insider change agents; and the different-path strategies used by entrepreneurs. She provides examples of each and discusses the challenges, contingencies, and rewards associated with each style of change. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Insurgents, Activists and Entrepreneurs: Strategies for Making Positive Social Change - Part 2 | Download this podcast | Charlene Zietsma | 2010-02-25 |
| Transforming and preserving traditional Peruvian Mountain Cultures - Closing Ashley and Rolando share the Indigenous traditions and lifestyles of Quechua communities in the Sacred Valley of Peru, as well as the perpetual challenges the communities face while trying to keep their culture alive. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Transforming and preserving traditional Peruvian Mountain Cultures - Closing | Download this podcast | Ashley Akins and Rolando Iturriaga | 2010-02-05 |
| Transforming and preserving traditional Peruvian Mountain Cultures - Part 1 Ashley and Rolando share the Indigenous traditions and lifestyles of Quechua communities in the Sacred Valley of Peru, as well as the perpetual challenges the communities face while trying to keep their culture alive. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Transforming and preserving traditional Peruvian Mountain Cultures - Part 1 | Download this podcast | Ashley Akins and Rolando Iturriaga | 2010-02-05 |
| Transforming and preserving traditional Peruvian Mountain Cultures - Part 2 Ashley and Rolando share the Indigenous traditions and lifestyles of Quechua communities in the Sacred Valley of Peru, as well as the perpetual challenges the communities face while trying to keep their culture alive. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Transforming and preserving traditional Peruvian Mountain Cultures - Part 2 | Download this podcast | Ashley Akins and Rolando Iturriaga | 2010-02-05 |
| Sustainability Through the Co-operative Economy Forum Ana Maria Peredo, CCCBE Director, presents as part of the 2009 Sustainability Through the Co-operative Economy Forum. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Sustainability Through the Co-operative Economy Forum | Download this podcast | Ana Maria Peredo | 2009-10-16 |
| Campus Urban Agriculture Collaborative Miranda Cross, UVic environmental biology student, presented as part of the 2009 Sustainability Through the Co-operative Economy Forum. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Campus Urban Agriculture Collaborative | Download this podcast | Miranda Cross | 2009-10-16 |
| A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere Dr. Noel Keough Presents A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere | Download this podcast | Noel Keough | 2009-10-15 |
| A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere - Part 2 Dr. Noel Keough Presents A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere - Part 2 | Download this podcast | Noel Keough | 2009-10-15 |
| A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere - Q&A Dr. Noel Keough Presents A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about A Culture of Sustainability: Re-embedding the Economy in Social Life and The Ecosphere - Q&A | Download this podcast | Noel Keough | 2009-10-15 |
| See Change: Navigating the Troubled Water Ahead - Part 1 Individual change and global change are important, but what about our communities and regions, how do we reweave and reorganize our economic life into a more self-reliant and co-operative framework? There are no simple answers. But there are strategic pathways and signposts. This talk will illustrate ideas and innovations critical to meeting our basic needs—finance, fuel, food and shelter. It can be done. But will it? That may depend on whether we can change the way we see the world, our solidarity in seeking realistic solutions and our capacity to secure the changes we make as we struggle to build pathways to a very different future. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about See Change: Navigating the Troubled Water Ahead - Part 1 | Download this podcast | Mike Lewis | 2009-09-17 |
| See Change: Navigating the Troubled Water Ahead - Part 2 Individual change and global change are important, but what about our communities and regions, how do we reweave and reorganize our economic life into a more self-reliant and co-operative framework? There are no simple answers. But there are strategic pathways and signposts. This talk will illustrate ideas and innovations critical to meeting our basic needs—finance, fuel, food and shelter. It can be done. But will it? That may depend on whether we can change the way we see the world, our solidarity in seeking realistic solutions and our capacity to secure the changes we make as we struggle to build pathways to a very different future. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about See Change: Navigating the Troubled Water Ahead - Part 2 | Download this podcast | Mike Lewis | 2009-09-17 |
| People, Place and Participation: Community-based Governance in Coastal BC - Part 1 Building on an earlier paper on community-based resource management (Devolution and Discretion: Building Community-Based Resource Management into Contemporary Governance), this informal presentation will update discussion of a number of themes in place-based governance, including reference to the tensions (contradictions) inherent in building institutions for regional oceans governance and integrated oceans management, as well as the challenge of building norms shared across cultural boundaries in a Web 2.0 world. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about People, Place and Participation: Community-based Governance in Coastal BC - Part 1 | Download this podcast | Rod Dobell | 2009-04-15 |
| People, Place and Participation: Community-based Governance in Coastal BC - Part 2 Building on an earlier paper on community-based resource management (Devolution and Discretion: Building Community-Based Resource Management into Contemporary Governance), this informal presentation will update discussion of a number of themes in place-based governance, including reference to the tensions (contradictions) inherent in building institutions for regional oceans governance and integrated oceans management, as well as the challenge of building norms shared across cultural boundaries in a Web 2.0 world. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about People, Place and Participation: Community-based Governance in Coastal BC - Part 2 | Download this podcast | Rod Dobell | 2009-04-15 |
| An Indigenous Critique of Aboriginal Economic Development Cliff Atleo, Jr. is Nuu-chah-nulth and Tsimshian and a student in the Indigenous Governance program at UVic. He has an undergraduate degree in political science and previous work experience with the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group, Lyackson First Nation and the Canadian Social Economy Hub. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about An Indigenous Critique of Aboriginal Economic Development | Download this podcast | Cliff Atleo Jr. | 2009-03-07 |
| The Big Picture: The Politics of An Economy Dr. James Tully is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about The Big Picture: The Politics of An Economy | Download this podcast | James Tully | 2009-03-07 |
| Community Capital: A Sustainable Approach to Community Development Dr. Mark Roseland's keynote presentation was part of a one-day Provincial Forum that gathered 200 people from diverse community organizations, faculty members, and students to discuss the possibilities and opportunities arisen from the economic crisis. The forum was a collective effort with The Community Economic Development Network and other organizations. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Community Capital: A Sustainable Approach to Community Development | Download this podcast | Mark Roseland | 2009-03-07 |
| Advances, Risks and Vulnerabilities of Co-op Recycling Participatory sustainable waste management takes a community-based and action oriented approach, working with leaders from organized recycling groups and local government agents. The proposed research hopes to contribute to the explanation of a social economy model for recycling cooperatives. A network of 30 recycling groups in the metropolitan area of São Paulo has become engaged in collective commercialization and micro-finance in order to avoid dependency on middlemen. Could this become an approach to break the cycle of poverty, advance human development and improve environmental health? You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Advances, Risks and Vulnerabilities of Co-op Recycling | Download this podcast | Jutta Gutberlet | 2009-03-05 |
| Getting the Message Out: Successful Models for Co-operative Enterprise Development What resources are needed to support the growth of co-operative enterprises? How do you create synergy and cohesion among local co-ops? Many different models for supporting co-operative enterprise development have been used over the years, with varying degrees of success. The federation model, co-operative development councils and co-op development centres are three such models. This presentation will introduce the various models and highlight the factors that have contributed to success. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Getting the Message Out: Successful Models for Co-operative Enterprise Development | Download this podcast | Ana María Peredo, Ali Dastmalchian, and Lou Hammond Ketilson | 2009-01-08 |
| Getting the Message Out: Successful Models for Co-operative Enterprise Development What resources are needed to support the growth of co-operative enterprises? How do you create synergy and cohesion among local co-ops? Many different models for supporting co-operative enterprise development have been used over the years, with varying degrees of success. The federation model, co-operative development councils and co-op development centres are three such models. This presentation will introduce the various models and highlight the factors that have contributed to success. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Getting the Message Out: Successful Models for Co-operative Enterprise Development | Download this podcast | Ana María Peredo and Lou Hammond Ketilson | 2009-01-08 |
| Co-operatives, a Model for Community Based Health The Victoria Community Health Co-operative began as everything does—as a dream. In 2005, three friends met in a clinic waiting room one evening to brainstorm a vision of a Community Integrative Health Center that addressed health in its broadest contexts: physical, emotional, spiritual, social, environmental. Today, the 70 co-op members are working with the community towards expanding health care services and programs such as a virtual health resource center, integrative health services, and working towards establishing a community health centre. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Co-operatives, a Model for Community Based Health | Download this podcast | Mark Sherman | 2008-12-04 |
| Community as Social Entrepreneurs In this presentation Ana Maria Peredo develops the concept of community-based enterprise (CBE) and argues that it provides a potential strategy for sustainable local development in poor populations. Traditional models of entrepreneurship tend to view entrepreneurship as an individual undertaking, with profit-making as a prominent motivation. Ana Maria argues that in this emerging form of entrepreneurship we find communities acting collectively as entrepreneurs, with the goal of achieving community well-being. Movements are typically rooted in community culture. Natural and social capital are integral and inseparable from economic considerations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and multilevel approaches, Ana Maria proposes a theoretical model of the determinants, characteristics, and consequences of CBEs. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Community as Social Entrepreneurs | Download this podcast | Ana Maria Peredo | 2008-11-20 |
| Food Security through Co-operation With the growing interest in food security; local food; and sustainable production and distribution practices, perhaps it is time to revive the co-op model to help develop and secure our local food system. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Food Security through Co-operation | Download this podcast | Lee Fuge | 2008-11-06 |
| Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in Victoria Solutions to homelessness in British Columbia's Capital Region already exist-–in innovative and diverse social economy organizations that today house more than 7,000 Greater Victoria residents. This study demonstrates how forward-looking action by non-profit societies and co-operatives, in partnership with supportive governments, has succeeded in providing reliable and safe non-market housing options for people in need. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Housing for All: The Social Economy and Homelessness in Victoria | Download this podcast | Benjamin Isitt | 2008-10-16 |
| Is it the End of Utopia? The Israeli Kibbutz after one hundred years of existence Dr. Uriel Leviatan discusses the "good society" and argues that adherence to kibbutz basic social values of equality, solidarity, partnership, and an emphasis on service to society brought kibbutzim closer than other societies to emulating the "good society". How and why did kibbutzim experience what is coined as "the crisis"? It began as an economic crisis in the mid-eighties and soon became a major social and ideological crisis. Reactions to this crisis varied but many kibbutzim decided to give up their unique values and emulate the norms, mores, and social structure of the world around them. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Is it the End of Utopia? The Israeli Kibbutz after one hundred years of existence | Download this podcast | Uriel Leviatan | 2008-09-18 |
| Working with Nomadic Women in Mongolia Through small felt-making co-operatives, nomadic women in Mongolia's Gobi desert are finding a means to economic security and cultural survival for themselves and future generations. Vanessa Hammond has spent four month-long assignments in Mongolia helping to provide development and marketing assistance to women's co-operatives on behalf of the Co-operative Development Foundation. Vanessa shares her knowledge of the development and operating of these co-ops, and her stories and slides of the wonderful people and stunning landscape of this high desert and mountainous central Asian republic. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Working with Nomadic Women in Mongolia | Download this podcast | Vanessa Hammond | 2008-03-19 |
| Sharing the Challenges and the Rewards of Converting to Co-operative Ownership Dr. Jorge Sousa discusses the challenges and rewards of co-operative housing development by using examples of conversion processes and new developments. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Sharing the Challenges and the Rewards of Converting to Co-operative Ownership | Download this podcast | Jorge Sousa | 2008-02-07 |
| Co-operating for Local Food Security: The Story of Saanich Organics Southern Vancouver Island is blessed with a rich resource of agricultural land; however, farming is a threatened activity due to increased demands of a growing population and inadequate support through public policy. Nevertheless, there is an enthusiastic mix of small and organic farmers in the region whose efforts to steward the land have been welcomed by local residents and promoted through culinary tourism. The story of Saanich Organics provides a look at the cooperative efforts of three female farmers as they work to establish a thriving, small-scale agricultural enterprise. You require the Flash plugin to see this video.
Read more about Co-operating for Local Food Security: The Story of Saanich Organics | Download this podcast | Robin Tunnicliffe | 2008-01-24 |
