Autonomy should be our keyword: Feminisms from the South and subaltern cosmopolitism in Social and Solidarity Economies

(…) microlevel may be tremendously political and matters since it may foster different logics of belonging and producing social meanings – something very important when we think of the circulation and consumption of goods. I thus end up with a short story: in a peripheral exchange fair organised “for and with” users of mental health service, the history of a schizophrenic young boy called my attention. He was used to being kept apart from the living room. One day he demonstrated his satisfaction in acquiring social currencies. He said: “Now I can buy the pasta for our Sunday’s lunch”. That is it: social and solidarity economies are not just about facing structural unemployment or economic vulnerability. They may be about something usually taken as minor detail, lesser things: from a safeguarding network to make you know you are not alone to the possibility of social recognition within one’s own family. That is why I say: autonomy should be our keyword.