Category Archives: Research

Michael Crow, President, ASU

Posted on March 15, 2012 by hmeyer

Michael Crow, the 16th President of Arizona State University, speaks at TEDxAshoka on social change and justice in this video entitled The New U: New Solutions, New Futures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW5Q74tGj28

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Vanna Gonzales- Conceptualizing the Social Economy

Posted on June 29, 2011 by rkilman

Social Economy Arizona is a project spearheaded by Vanna Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation, an academic unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.  Dr. Gonzales … Continue reading →

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Jessica Gordon Nembhard Ph.D.

Posted on March 11, 2011 by ruviwije

Jessica Gordon Nembhard is is an associate professor of community justice and social economic development in the Department of African-American Studies at John Jay College, CUNY. She is also a consultant (formerly Research Director) to the Preamble Center, Washington, DC. … Continue reading →

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Globalization and Institutional Diversity

Posted on January 6, 2011 by ruviwije

In the current moment of economic crisis and increasing cultural fluidity, there is a need for research that seeks a better understanding of how globalization shapes and is shaped by the development of the social economy.  The articles posted below … Continue reading →

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Sustainability and Environmental Justice

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Jaime Roberts

Paired with environmental justice, discussions of sustainability begin with the assumption that the environment has become one of the most critical social and political issues of the 21st century.  In the midst of a rapidly changing global ecology, it is … Continue reading →

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Conceptualizing Social Enterprises and the Social Economy

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Jaime Roberts

The articles introduced below discuss conceptual dilemmas related to defining the social economy, and related concepts–in particular social enterprises, social entrepreneurship and community based organizations.  In addition to introducing a variety of analytical and conceptual models, a number of pieces … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Segal

Posted on January 4, 2011 by ruviwije

Dr. Elizabeth A. Segal is a social policy analyst with a background in professional social work. She currently holds the position of Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University. She has served on the faculties of … Continue reading →

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Sander van der Leeuw

Posted on December 16, 2010 by ruviwije

An archaeologist and historian by training, van der Leeuw’s personal research interests are in the study of long-term dynamics of socio-environmental systems, reconstruction of ancient technologies, (ancient and modern) regional man-land relationships, invention and innovation, urban dynamics, geographic information systems, … Continue reading →

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Ted De Barbieri

Posted on December 6, 2010 by ruviwije

Ted De Barbieri is an Equal Justice Works Fellow and Staff Attorney in the Urban Justice Center’s Community Development Project in New York City. The Community Development Project provides litigation and transactional support to community-based organizations throughout the five boroughs. … Continue reading →

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