Under France’s SELS: a plebeian public sphere rises. Sociological interpretation essay over the Systéme d'Exchange Local (SELs)

Authors

  • Maria Neyâra de Oliveira Araújo Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Abstract

The author presented a description of the French local exchange system (local exchange and excluding money) - SELs. Referring to notion of "public funds" (Francisco de Oliveira) and "plebian public sphere" (Habermas), examined the hypothesis that such a system revealed a new mode of conflict regulation, and could constitute an aspect that was denominated as a "society of welfare" (Pierre Rosauvallon). The more general hypothesis is that, having the XIX century produced a finished "bourgeois public sphere" which became well consolidated as the sociocultural form of the commodity, in the dawn of the XXI century, the SELs emerge as a "plebian public sphere" with its sociocultural essence as a “public fund”.

Author Biography

Maria Neyâra de Oliveira Araújo, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Doutora em Sociologia, professora do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal do Ceará.

Published

2018-09-18

How to Cite

Araújo, M. N. de O. (2018). Under France’s SELS: a plebeian public sphere rises. Sociological interpretation essay over the Systéme d’Exchange Local (SELs). Revista De Ciências Sociais (Social Sciences’ Journal), 35(1), 31–44. Retrieved from http://periodicos.ufc.br/revcienso/article/view/33596