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Diverse Solidarity Economics
“The DISE Collective focuses excluded groups in the Global North and Global South who seek refuge in the solidarity and social economy ecosystem because of systemic racism, casteism and business exclusion.” (Read More)
News Articles and Written Stories
Hossein, C.S. Holmes, N. (2023, Sept 13th). ‘Susu’: Ghana’s Informal Economy is a Case Study in Post-capitalist Development. Radical Ecological Democracy. (Online).
Hossein, C. S., & Bonsu, S. K. (2023, March 22nd). Situating the West African system of collectivity: A study of Susu Institutions in Ghana’s urban centers. Rethinking Marxism, 35(1): 108-134. (Online). (PDF).
Hossein, C. S., & Pearson, M. (2023, Jan 17th). Black Feminists in the Third Sector: Here Is Why We Choose to use the term Solidarity Economy. The Review of Black Political Economy, 50(2). 222–248. (Online). (PDF).
Hossein, C.S., Pearson, M. (2021, August 25th). Canada’s Corporations Fail to Meet the BlackNorth Pledge, and We’re Not Surprised. The Conversation. (Online). Reproduced in The National Post Online.
Hossein, C.S., (2021, May 31st). No more Black suffering on display: expose racist banking to public scrutiny and bring in home-grown ROSCAs. The Hill Times. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S., (2021, March 9th). Banking Co-ops Run by Black Women Have a Longtime Legacy of Helping People. The National Post. (Online).
Hossein, C.S., (2021, March 8th). Banking Co-ops Run by Black Women Have a Longtime Legacy of Helping People. The Conversation. (Online)
Hossein, C.S. (2021). The legacy of cooperatives among the African diaspora: The cases of Haiti and Grenada. National Review of Black Politics (2021) 2 (3-4): 171–194. (Online) (Alt Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S., (2020, November 19th). It’s time to rethink how we fix racism in banking. The Globe & Mail, The Business Report. (Online) (No Paywall)
Hossein, C.S., (2020, July 23rd). Mutual Aid: Localizing Economic Cooperation in the Global South, Rural Areas, and Among the African Diaspora. Farmer’s Almanac.
Hossein, C.S., (2020, March 24th). Mutual aid and physical distancing are not new for Black and racialized minorities in the Americas. History of Philanthropy (HistPhil). (Online)
Sanchez, N. (February 27, 2020). Banking while Brown: Indigenous people and structural racism in Canada. Yellowhead Institute. (Online).
Hossein, C.S., (2019, October 21st). Spotlight on economic and social innovation marred by racial bias and exclusion. The Conversation. (Online)
Hossein, C.S. (2019). A Black epistemology for the social and solidarity economy: The Black social economy. Review of Black political economy. 1(21). (Sage). (PDF).
Hossein, C.S. (2018, May 8th). Banking while Black: The Business of Exclusion. The National Post. Reprint from The Conversation. May 7th, 2018. (Online)
Hossein, C.S. (2018, May 7th). Banking while Black: The Business of Exclusion. The Conversation. (Online)
Hossein, C.S. (2018, March 8th). Economic Collectives — Such As “Box Hand”, “Sadooq”, “Ayuto” And “Susu” — Are Important Cooperative Financial Tools In The African Canadian Community. Pride News Magazine. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2018, January 18). Examining Susu: An African Tradition in Canada's Social Economy. Share Magazine. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2017). A Black perspective on Canada’s third sector: Case studies on women leaders in the social economy. Journal of Canadian Studies, 51(3): 749-781.(PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2017). Living Garveyism in the social economies of the African diaspora in the Canada and in the West Indies. National Political Science Review, 19(1), 169-186. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2017). A case study of the influence of Garveyism on the African diaspora. Social Economic Studies Journal, 66(3/4), 151-174.
Hossein, C.S. (2016, July 25th). A trusted ancient African tradition of savings. Montreal Community Contact. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2016). Money pools in the Americas: The African diaspora’s legacy in the social economy. The Forum for Social Economics. XLV (4), 309-328. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2015). Black women in the marketplace: The everyday gendered risks encountered by Haiti’s madan saras (women traders). Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Special issue Intersectionality, Work and Globalization, 9(2), 36-50. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2015). Cultural bias in financial development programs: The Afro-Caribbean experience. Panoramas. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2015, March 23rd). Bank accounting: class and race and the 'right to bank'. Rabble.ca. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2014). The exclusion of Afro-Guyanese in micro-banking. The European Review of Latin America and Caribbean Studies, 96, 75-98. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2014). The politics of resistance: Informal banks in the Caribbean. The Review of Black Political Economy, 41(1), 85-100. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2013, April 23rd). Losing CIDA, Canadian International Development Agency. Straight Good News. (Online)
Hossein, C.S. (2013). Haiti’s caisses populaires: Home-grown solutions to bring economic democracy. International Journal of Social Economics, 41(1), 42-59. (PDF)
Videos and Creative
Vibrant Solidarity and Social Economies
One in a series of videos produced by the DISE.
An introduction to the historical and political importance of the often hidden plural economies of Black and Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
Revisionist histories of economics and modern case studies remain fixated on the role of government aid and charity, excluding the ways these groups have created their own plural economies.
By prioritizing the livelihoods of excluded people and pulling on African traditions, they have successfully built systems to lift up and facilitate the successes of historically oppressed and excluded people.
Book Chapters
Hossein, C. (2018). Daring to conceptualize the Black social economy. In Hossein, C. (Ed.), The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets. Palgrave Macmillan.
Hossein, C., Skerritt G. (2018). Drawing on the lived experience of African Canadians: Using money pools to combat social and business exclusion. In Hossein, C. (Ed.), The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community Based Markets. Palgrave Macmillan.
Hossein, C., (2018). Preface. In C., Hossein (Ed.), The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets. Palgrave Macmillan.
Hossein, C., (2017). Business and social exclusion. In Birch, K. et al., Business and Society: A Critical Introduction. London, UK: Zed Books.
Book Reviews
Hossein, C.,S. (2014). [Review of the book Collective courage: African American: A history of African American cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, by Nembhard, J.,G.] Journal of Cooperative Studies, 47(2): 50-53. (PDF)
Hossein, C.,S. (2014). [Review of the book Collective courage: African American: A history of African American cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, by Nembhard, J., G.] Black Canadian Studies. (Link)
Hossein, C.,S. (2016). [Review of the book Social purpose enterprises: Case studies for social change, by Quarter, J., Ryan, S., & Chan, A.] Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 27(4), 2001-2003. (PDF)
Journal Articles
Hossein, C.S. (2021). The legacy of cooperatives among the African diaspora: The cases of Haiti and Grenada. National Review of Black Politics (2021) 2 (3-4): 171–194. (Online) (Alt Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2020). Locating the contributions of the African diaspora in the Canadian co-operative sector. International Journal of Co-operative Accounting and Management. 3(3): 21-45. (St. Mary’s University PDF) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2019). A Black epistemology for the social and solidarity economy: The Black social economy. Review of Black political economy. 1(21). (Sage). (PDF).
Hossein, C.S. (2017). A Black perspective on Canada’s third sector: Case studies on women leaders in the social economy. Journal of Canadian Studies, 51(3): 749-781.(PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2017). Living Garveyism in the social economies of the African diaspora in the Canada and in the West Indies. National Political Science Review, 19(1), 169-186. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2017). A case study of the influence of Garveyism on the African diaspora. Social Economic Studies Journal, 66(3/4), 151-174.
Hossein, C.S. (2016). Money pools in the Americas: The African diaspora’s legacy in the social economy. The Forum for Social Economics. XLV (4), 309-328. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2016). ’Big man’ politics in the social economy: A case study of microfinance in Kingston, Jamaica. Review of Social Economy, 74(2): 148-171. [*Winner of the Helen Potter Award for best journal article, Association of Social Economics, conferred at Allied Social Science Conference, Chicago, 5-8 January 2017. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2015). Government-owned micro-banking and financial exclusion: A case study of small business people in east Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Canadian Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 40(3), 393-409. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2014). The exclusion of Afro-Guyanese in micro-banking. The European Review of Latin America and Caribbean Studies, 96, 75-98. (Online) (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2014). The politics of resistance: Informal banks in the Caribbean. The Review of Black Political Economy, 41(1), 85-100. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2013). Haiti’s caisses populaires: Home-grown solutions to bring economic democracy. International Journal of Social Economics, 41(1), 42-59. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2013). The Black social economy: Perseverance of banker ladies in the slums. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 84(4), 423-442. (PDF)
Hossein, C.S. (2013). Using a Black feminist framework: A comparative study of bias against female entrepreneurs in Caribbean Micro-banking. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Policy, and Practice, 2, 51-79. (PDF)
Official reports
Hossein, C.,S. (2013, Dec 23rd). Understanding gender- specific constraints for Haiti's women micro entrepreneurs in the northern corridor. U.S. Agency For International Development. (PDF)
Bashinge, C., Brenton, P., Hossein, C.,S., Nagaki, S., Ntagoma, J. (2011). Facilitating cross-border trade between the DRC and neighbors in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: Improving conditions for poor traders. The World Bank Group. Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Africa Region.
Hossein, C.,S. (2010). Perspectives inna di yard: Improving access to microfinance. Inter-American Development Bank.
Hossein, C.,S. (2010, September 19th). Risky Business? Poor Women Food Traders in the Borderlands of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Africa Region, World Bank Group. (PDF)
Hossein, C.,S. (2010). Risky Business: Poor Women Cross-Border Traders in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. World Bank Report. December. (PDF)
Hossein, C.,S. (2008). Understanding the Impact of Employment, Entrepreneurship and Training Programs on Youth in Jordan and Rwanda. U.S. Agency For International Development. September 29th. (PDF)
Books
Hossein C.S., (Eds). (2018). The Black Social Economy in The Americas, Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets. Palgrave MacMillan Publishers. (Springer) (Amazon)