The Flexible Institutionalization Process of Puma Currency in Seville, Spain
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | The Flexible Institutionalization Process of Puma Currency in Seville, Spain |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Georgina M. Gómez; Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Netherlands |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Cristina Medina Prado; Andalusian Studies Centre Foundation Department of the Presidency of the Andalusian Regional Government; Spain |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Complementary currencies; Spain; institutions; politics of caring; extension dilemma; social innovation |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | Grassroots groups depend on dynamic and fluid interactions with high trust to retain their identity. At the same time, a stable structure and division of labour with rules and hierarchies is necessary to sustain their organisation and social influence. The study explores this organisational dilemma by drawing on the category of flexible institutionalisation. It enquires how actors experience this balancing act between spontaneous solidarity and hierarchical structures in the life of the collective. The study focuses on the PUMA complementary currency in Seville, which was the brainchild of a neighbourhood association, a degrowth group and the local community. Puma functioned as a mutual credit system with a passbook and later as a digital wallet. The research presents primary data collected in 2014, 2017 and 2019 and concludes that the institutionalisation of social innovations is purposefully incomplete and regulates spaces of spontaneity and caring to preserve solidarity and identity. |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Coordinamento SIBA - Università del Salento |
| 6. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | Università del Salento - Coordinamento SIBA |
| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2020-04-21 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 8. | Type | Type | |
| 9. | Format | File format | |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/21999 |
| 10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1285/i20356609v13i1p514 |
| 11. | Source | Publication/conference title; vol., no. (year) | PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO; Vol. 13, No. 1 (2020). Special Issue on:“The Cultural Side of Populism” & “Rethinking Money, Rebuilding Community” |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
| 13. | Relation | Supp. Files | |
| 14. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | Lecce, Italy |
| 15. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Authors who publish with PACO agree to the Creative Commons Attribution-Non commercial-Share alike 3.0 Italian License Copyrights of each article are hold by the University of Salento. PACO allows author(s) to retain publishing rights under permission of the Editorial Staff. But Authors are requested to always indicate that the first version of the article has been published in "Partecipazione e conflitto". |