Cristián Alarcón collaborated with UNRISD for the project Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy (2012-2013). For the project he wrote a think piece, entitled "Worker Solidarity Confronting the Crises of Capitalism: Bottom-up Solidarity Economy and Political Ecology in South America".
Cristián Alarcón is a PhD researcher at the Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and CEFO associate, Uppsala University
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