Head of the initiative de recherche "Démocratie et économie plurielles"
Economist and sociologist, after having been a researcher at the CNRS and having directed a laboratory, Jean-Louis Laville is currently professor of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam) where he holds the chair of solidarity economy. He is also a researcher at the Lise (CNAM - CNRS) at the Institut Francililien de Recherche on Social Innovation (Ifris).
He is a publisher and director of collections at the Éditions Desclée de Brouwer and Erès.
Translated into various languages (Arabic, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese), this work led him to cooperate regularly with several foreign universities (Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Louvain-la-Neuve, Montreal, Quito, Salvador of Bahia, Tokyo, etc.) and to be a founding member of the EMES (European Network on the Emergence of Social Enterprise) research network and RILESS (Red de Investigadores Latinoamericanos de Economia Social and Solidaria). He is also a member of the board of directors of the Polanyi Institute of Political Economy and head of the Economic Sociology Research Committee of the International Association of French-Speaking Sociologists (AISLF).
He is also a member of the Scientific Committee and the Policy Committee of several journals, including the Revue française de socioeconomique, the MAUSS journal, Sociologie du travail, and the Nouvelle journal de psychosociologie.
Research Project
Its analyzes are characterized by a rejection of the compartmentalization between political and economic spheres. They also highlight the relations between the social sciences and political philosophy in order to propose an original approach to the entities of civil society. More broadly, they provide a reflection on the role of these through a re-reading of their history and an international perspective. They lead in particular to an explanation of what associationism is like the social and solidarity economy.
Research notebooks
http://www.emes.net/
https://www.facebook.com/riless.org/
http://www.ifris.org/
http://www.concordia.ca/research/polanyi.html
Selected recent books
Avec Geoffrey. Pleyers, E. lisabetta Buccolo, José-Luis Corragio (dir.), Mouvements sociaux et économie solidaire, Desclée de Brouwer et Editions de la MSH, 2017
Reinventing the Commons in the 21st century - Alter-Economy, Alter - Democracy,2017, Tokyo
L'économie sociale et solidaire. Pratiques, théories, débats, Seuil, 2016, Paris
La economia solidaria, Desde Abajo, 2016, Bogota
Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise, Routledge, 2015, Londres et New-York
Asociarse para el bien comùn, Icaria, 2015, Barcelone
Les gauches du XXIe siècle. Un dialogue Nord-Sud, Le Bord de l'eau, 2015, Lormont
Associations et action publique, DDB, 2015, Paris
L'innovation sociale, Erès, 2014, Paris
Reinventar la izquierda. Hacia un dialogo Norte-Sur, 2014, IAEN - UNGS, Quito, Buenos Aires
Socio économie et démocratie. L'actualité de Karl Polanyi, Erès, 2013, Toulouse
L'association. Sociologie et économie, Fayard-Pluriel, 2013, Paris
L'économie solidaire, une perspective internationale, réédition, Fayard - Pluriel, 2013, Paris
La gouvernance des associations, Erès-Poche, 2013, Toulouse
Diccionario de la otra economia, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, réédition, 2013, Buenos Aires
Entreprise sociale et insertion, DDB, 2012, Paris
The Human Economy, Polity Press, 2010, Cambridge
Dictionnaire de l'autre économie, Gallimard - Folio, réédition, 2010, Paris
Research topics
democracy
ecology
economy
globalisation
public action
Social movements
solidarity
Plural democracy and economy
Studying the interweaving of the history of ideas and social practices, for a better understanding of contemporary theory and the choice of the social economy as model
