ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the core values and key attributes of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) as a pluralistic and yet cohesive social movement, and explores its potential in building a sustained spatiotemporal utopianism. It introduces the Social Economy Action Research Project initiated in Hong Kong since the middle of 2010, with a brief analysis of early case findings that offers insights into the potency and practicability of the urban utopian vision it carries. It is apparent that Ethan Miller is paying attention to both space and process which are intermingled in his imaginary of a prospective solidarity economy movement, and it echoes the call made by Harvey in that the production of space and time be incorporated into the formulation of utopian visions. It would thus be interesting to survey the social, spatial, and processual dimensions of SSE as a unique movement of movements, in order that may better grasp its utopian vision.