Thinking about convivality in the contemporary social economy[Concebir el convivialismo en la economía social contemporánea]

This article examines the social economy through the prism of a contemporary of Polanyi rarely cited in studies: Ivan Illich (1926-2002). The author applies the theory of the tools of conviviality developed by Illich to the social and solidarity economy to better identify the possible links and contributions of the conviviality movement, a social movement that envisages a different kind of civilisation, a civilisation of conviviality opposed to the inhumanity of the world. For the author, Ivan Illich could be included in the family of SSE thinkers and thus reinvent the SSE approach. The connections with conviviality could reinvigorate the political and theoretical foundations of a contemporary SSE freeing us from capitalism.