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Luiz Inácio Gaiger
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Last updated: 27/08/2024
Luiz Inácio Gaiger
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Rua Cônego Viana, 65, apto. 502
90.420-170 Porto Alegre RS
Porto Alegre
Rua Cônego Viana, 65502
90.420-170  Brazil
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  Professor and researcher on Social Sciences.
  Luiz Inácio Gaiger has been full professor at the Post-Graduation Program in Social Sciences at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, Brazil (1988-2024) and scholarship holder of the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (CNPq, Brazil - 2000-2024).
  GAIGER, Luiz; NYSSENS, Marthe; WANDERLEY, Fernanda (Eds.). Social enterprise in Latin America. New York: Routledge, 2019.

GAIGER, Luiz. From Informality to Popular Economy: distinguishing realities and connecting approaches. Revista Ciências Sociais Unisinos, v. 55, p. 97 - 110, 2019.

GAIGER, Luiz. Économie solidaire et capitalisme dans la perspective des transitions historiques In: Genre et économie solidaire: des croisements nécessaires.1ª ed.Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018, v.10, p. 71-93.

GAIGER, Luiz. Solidarity Economy in South and North America: converging experiences. Brazilian Political Science Review, v. 11, p.1 - 27, 2017.

GAIGER, Luiz; KUYVEN, Patrícia. Un portrait national de l'Économie Solidaire au Brésil. Alternatives Sud. , v. 22, p.45 - 61, 2015.
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  He holds a M. Sc. and a Ph. D. in Sociology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (1986 and 1991). Since 2000, he is a Researcher for the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq).
He has an academic experience and research interest on citizen participation, social movements, solidarity economy and social entrepreneurship.
He coordinates, with Prof. José Luis Coraggio (UNGS/Argentina), the Latin American Network of Researchers on Social and Solidarity Economy (RILESS), and is co-director of the Otra Economía Journal. Some of his recent publications are Dicionário Internacional da Outra Economia (edited with Antonio CATTANI, Jean-Louis LAVILLE and Pedro HESPANHA, 2009, Coimbra: Almedina) and A Economia Solidária no Brasil: uma análise de dados nacionais (edited in collaboration with the Ecosol Research Group, 2014, São Leopoldo: Oikos).