Les régimes territoriaux de l'économie sociale et solidaire : le cas du Pays Basque français

When focusing on the « territorial regime » of the social and solidarity-based economy, this article puts under scrutiny the building of trust between the local actors, territorial political regulations and the definition of territorial public issues. This perspective will be exemplified by a case-study conducted on the social economy in the French Basque Country. This mobilisation was initiated by the workers’ cooperative movement in the mid-1970s, then extended to new dynamics. The article goes back to the process of trust-building, before analysing the role of social economy in the political construction of local development. It ends with a focus on the role played by social economy in the new governance networks emerging from the new institutionalization of the French Basque Country since the mid’1990s.