ABSTRACT
The Community Economies project is an ongoing effort to contribute to an emerging economic politics, one that is centred on the practice of economic self-determination, oriented by the vision that another world is possible' and committed to postcapitalist economic futures. The Community Economies project is one of many contemporary projects seeking to foster new worlds and innovative economies. This chapter attempts to open a conversation between Community Economies and another such project, a multiphase European-based research initiative on local social innovation. Both Community Economies and Local/Social Innovation suggest that social inclusion through innovative community initiatives can be understood as an ethical practice of locality. Both Local/Social Innovation and Community Economies are interested in projects concerned with building new communities in which innovative governance is a central feature. The chapter also highlights fundamental similarities and differences between the two projects that make them potentially fruitful contributors to each other and to the self-reflection of each.
