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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Définir et comprendre l’ESS sur les territoires frontaliers franco-suisses :l’observatoire ESSpace

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The four Franco-Swiss chambers of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) (Franche-Comté, Vaud, Rhône-Alpes and Genève) collaborated from 2012 to 2014 in an Interreg IV project, the purpose of which was to conduct "a collective reflection to support the development, enhance the value of good practices and social and solidarity initiatives from one region to another" (Project Summary Document, 2015). This reflection aims to understand together how the SSE is experienced in these territories, to explore the similarities, nuances and differences.A corpus of the various definitions of the actors themselves, and selected by these actors, was constituted and analysed according to the method of Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CDA) articulating Factorial Correspondence Analysis (FCA) and Hierarchical Descending Classification (HDC). This approach makes it possible to obtain a cartography of the forms present in these definitions, and to understand their articulation, including territorial.Three remarkable isotopies emerge from the analyses, structuring an underlying narrative summarising a cross-border approach to the SSE in the expression of its definitions. This Franco-Swiss cooperation experience explores a territorial informational and communicational process in which actors play, meanings are created, data are formatted into information, and interpretations and communications are derived.