On 19 November 2026, Daniela Mora-Vera will defend her PhD thesis investigating how the Solidarity Economy Ecosystem (SEE) contributes to sustainable post-extractive transitions by fostering self-organization, collective resource management and social innovation, while identifying the structural factors that constrain its transformative capacity.
- PhD student
- Date
- Thursday 19 Nov 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B and livestream
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Mora-Vera focuses on two critical attributes: degree of alterity or 'otherness' and social-institutional embedding of the SEE.
Her findings are based on case studies, analysis of policy and other documents, surveys and in-depth interviews with stakeholders such as cooperatives, community organizations and policymakers.
Mora-Vera argues that SEE represents an interactive space where diverse actors converge, negotiating power and resources to foster alternative socioeconomic systems. Yet its transformative capacity remains limited by structural contradictions and insufficient institutional support.
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisors
Professor Irene van Staveren, International Institute of Social Studies
Professor María Cristina Vallejo, FLACSO Ecuador
Dr Georgina Gomez, International Institute of Social Studies
Full Doctoral Committee
Professor Ivette Vallejo Real, FLACSO Ecuador
Professor Myriam Paredes Chauca, FLACSO Ecuador
Professor Wilson Perez Oviedo, FLACSO Ecuador
Professor Benjamin Huybrechts, IÉSEG School of Management
Professor Geske Dijkstra, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Professor Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies
Professor Wendy Harcourt,
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The ceremony will begin promptly at 16:00 hrs in the Aula of the ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague. The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
Children under 7 years old are not allowed in the Aula during the first part of the ceremony.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
- Related links
- ISS PhD programme
