RE-IMAGINING COOPERATIVE FUTURES: AFRICANA WOMEN COOPERATORS ON SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES FOR CANADA AND THE WORLD
DR. CAROLINE SHENAZ HOSSEIN, Associate Professor of Global Development (University of Toronto, Scarborough) is a CRC Tier 2 of Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy. She is interim-Director of the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods (U of T) and founder of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE) Collective. Her research navigates the solidarity economies movement which, started in the Global South, prioritizes social profitability over financial gain. Hossein has worked in economic development for global organizations and was awarded an Ontario Early Researcher Award and a SSHRC (2017-2020). She is on the board of the International Association of Feminist Economics, an advisor to Oxford University Press, and editorial board member for the U.N. Task Force for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Kerala University’s Journal ‘Polity & Society’. Hossein’s authored and edited publications include: a multi-award winning book ‘Politicized Microfinance’ (2016); ‘Critical Introduction to Business and Society’ (2017); ‘The Black Social Economy’ (2018) ‘Community Economies in the Global South’ (2022) and ‘Beyond Racial Capitalism: Cooperatives in the African Diaspora’ (2023). Forthcoming books are ‘Africana Feminist Economics’ (Cambridge) and ‘The Banker Ladies’ (U of T). Organized jointly by CASC and ANSER-ARES.
