ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses exactly how the formation of a rural social enterprise network in Denmark started with a deep understanding of the material life in the particular community. It demonstrates how and why the two main versions of social enterprise—focused on the new capitalism and the social economy—both fail to allow for an understanding of how social enterprise emerges in the grassroots context in which communities in the South aim to address social challenges. The book explains the need to “repoliticize the depoliticized space of the present discourses around social enterprise”. It addresses how an important part of the solidarity economy, namely the popular and informal economy, is made invisible in mainstream economic and institutions discourses. The book explores social enterprises from a multi-actor perspective that distinguishes among four “institutional logics”: state, market, community and the non-profit sector.
