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The international handbook on social innovation : collective action, social learning and transdisciplinary research

This enriching Handbook covers many aspects of the scientific and socio-political debates on social innovation today. The contributors provide an overview of theoretical perspectives, methodologies and instructive experiences from all continents, as well as implications for collective action and policy. They argue strongly for social innovation as a key to human development. The Handbook defines social innovation as innovation in social relations within both micro and macro spheres, with the purpose of satisfying unmet or new human needs across different layers of society. It connects social i
eBook, English, 2013
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013
1 online resource
9781849809993, 1849809992
850408481
PART I: SOCIAL INNOVATION: FROM CONCEPT TO THEORY AND PRACTICE
Introduction: Social Innovation at the Crossroads between Science, Economy and Society / Juan-Luis Klein
1. Social Innovation: Intuition, Precept, Concept, Theory and Practice / Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum and Jean Hillier
2. Social Innovation in Governance and Public Management Systems: Toward a New Paradigm? / Benoit Levesque
3. Social Innovation, Social Economy and Social Enterprise: What Can the European Debate Tell Us? / Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens
4. Social Innovation in an Unsustainable World / Abid Mehmood and Constanza Parra
5. Social Innovation through Arts and Creativity / Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Thomas Pilati. 6. Microcredit as a Social Innovation / Arvind Ashta [and others]
7. Social Innovation for People-Centred Development / Lars Hulgard and P.K. Shajahan
PART II: SOCIAL INNOVATION THEORY: ITS ROLE IN KNOWLEDGE BUILDING
Introduction: Social Innovation
An Idea Longing for Theory / Stijn Oosterlynck
8. Social Innovation Research: A New Stage in Innovation Analysis? / Bob Jessop [and others]
9. Social Innovation: A Territorial Process / Barbara Van Dyck and Pieter Van den Broeck
10. Social Sustainability: A Competing Concept to Social Innovation? / Constanza Parra
11. Theorizing Multi-level Governance in Social Innovation Dynamics / Marc Pradel Miquel, Marisol Garcia Cabeza and Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada. 12. Towards a Deleuzean-inspired Methodology for Social Innovation Research and Practice / Jean Hillier
PART III: INSTRUCTIVE CASE STUDIES IN SOCIAL INNOVATION ANALYSIS
Introduction: Social Innovation Experience and Action as a Lead for Research / Stuart Cameron
13. Just Another Roll of the Dice: A Socially Creative Initiative to Assure Roma Housing in North Western Italy / Tommaso Vitale and Andrea Membretti
14. From 'Book Container' to Community Centre / John Andersen, Kristian Delica and Martin Severin Frandsen
15. Venturing Off the Beaten Path: Social Innovation and Settlement Upgrading in Voi, Kenya / Emmanuel Midheme
16. Knowledge Building and Organizational Behavior: The Mondragon Case from a Social Innovation Perspective / Igor Calzada. 17. Going Beyond Physical Urban Planning Interventions: Fostering Social Innovation through Urban Renewal in Brugse Poort, Ghent / Stijn Oosterlynck and Pascal Debruyne
18. Social Innovation through the Arts in Rural Areas: The Case of Montemor-o-Novo / Isabel Andre, Alexandre Abreu and Andre Carmo
PART IV: SOCIAL INNOVATION ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGIES
Introduction: 'Reality' as a Guide for SI Research Methods? / Abdelillah Hamdouch
19. A Transversal Reading of Social Innovation in European Cities / Serena Vicari Haddock and Chiara Tornaghi
20. Qualitative Approaches for the Study of Socially Innovation Initiatives / Haris Konstantatos, Dimitra Siatitsa, Dina Vaiou
21. Research Strategies for Assets and Strengths Based Community Development / Nola Kunnen, Diana MacCallum and Susan Young. 22. Technological Incubators of Solidarity Economy Initiatives: A Methodology for Promoting Social Innovation in Brazil / Ana Dubeux
23. Partnership-based Research: Coproduction of Knowledge and Contribution to Social Innovation / Jean-Marc Fontan, Denis Harrisson and Juan-Luis Klein
24. Social Innovation in Public Elder Care: The Role of Action Research / John Andersen and Annette Bilfeldt
25. Reflections on the Form and Content of Participatory Action Research and Implications for Social Innovation Research / Len Arthur
PART V: COLLECTIVE ACTION, INSTITUTIONAL LEVERAGE AND PUBLIC POLICY
Introduction: The Institutional Space for Social Innovation / Diana MacCallum. 26. Learning from Case Studies of Social Innovation in the Field of Social Services: Creatively Balancing Top-down Universalism with Bottom-up Democracy / Flavia Martinelli
27. The Social and Solidarity-based Economy as a New Field of Public Action: A Policy and Method for Promoting Social Innovation / Laurent Fraisse
28. The Quebec Model: A Social Innovation System Founded on Cooperation and Consensus Building / Juan-Luis Klein [and others]
29. The Linkages between Popular Education and Solidarity Economy in Brazil: An Historical Perspective / Ana Cristina Fernandes, Andreas Novy and Paul Singer
30. Local Associations in Chile: Social Innovation in a Mature Neoliberal Society / Vicente Espinoza
31. Gender and Social Innovation: The Role of EU Policies / Isabel Andre. PART VI: FRONTIERS IN SOCIAL INNOVATION RESEARCH
Introduction: The Pillars of Social Innovation Research and Practice / Serena Vicari Haddock
32. Innovative Forms of Knowledge Production: Transdisciplinarity and Knowledge Alliances / Andreas Novy, Sarah Habersack and Barbara Schaller
33. Holistic Research Methodology and Pragmatic Collective Action / Frank Moulaert and Abid Mehmood
34. Social Innovation for Community Economies: How Action Research Creates 'Other Worlds' / J.K. Gibson-Graham and Gerda Roelvink
35. Framing Social Innovation Research: A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective Frank Moulaert and Barbara Van Dyck