Across Boundaries: european cooperative societies. Study cases
The aim to achieve �in 2003� the single market also for the European
cooperative societies was one of the major objectives of the EC Regulation
concerning the status of the Societas Cooperativa Europeae (SCE). Seven
years later there seems to be little practical experiences. This paper is focused
in the analysis of experiences in the Basque Country, especially on
Ethical Banking and the Project developed known as Fiare, which would be the first European scope credit cooperative. The study of this case has
just emerged some questions about the real difficulties for extending this
kind of European collaboration: some of them with legal basis but others
probably with cultural basis.
The Value of a Meta Perspective in Social Innovation
Collective Awareness Platforms (CAP) have been promoted as an enabler of social innovation. A CAP supports the collection of data (quantitative and qualitative, and using all the technical possibil ...
Coronial Practice, Indigeneity and Suicide
All available data suggest that, like many other Indigenous peoples, Australian Aborigines are significantly more likely to kill themselves than are non-Aboriginal Australians. This statistical disparity is normally positioned an objective, ontological and undeniable social fact, a fact best explained as a function of endemic community disadvantage and disenfranchisement. This research explores the possibility that higher-than-normal Aboriginal suicide rates may also be a function of coronial decision-making practices. Based upon in-depth interviews with 32 coroners from across Australia, the following conclusions emerged from the data. First, coroners have differing perceptions of Indigenous capacity, and are less likely to have concerns about intent when the suicide is committed by an Indigenous person. Second, coroners have identified divergent scripts of Indigenous suicide, particularly its spontaneity and public location, and this supports rather than challenges, a finding of suicide. Third, the coronial perception of Indigenous life is a factor which influences a suicide determination for Indigenous deaths. Finally, the low level of Indigenous engagement with the coronial system, and the unlikelihood of a challenge to the finding of suicide by Indigenous families, means that a coronial determination of suicide is more likely.