1st Edition

Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation

Edited By Kees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt, Peter Knorringa Copyright 2016
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited collection examines the globally rising phenomenon of civic innovation. Combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, this book defines the dynamic and complex process of civic innovation as the multiple economic, political and social processes where peoples, organizations, movements and ideas are shaping struggles for global justice on the interface of capitalism.... Read more

Table of Contents







Chapter 1 Introduction: Giving meaning to Civic Innovation



Kees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter Knorringa





Chapter 2 The Institutional Foundations of Civic Innovation



Georgina Gomez and Holly Ritchie 





Chapter 3 Change actors and civic innovators: who triggers change? Systematizing the role of interlocutors in civic innovation processes



Alan Fowler





Chapter 4 Can Consultants be Civic Innovators? Exploring their Roles as Auditors and Allies



Sylvia I. Bergh and Kees Biekart





Chapter 5 Between State, Market and Civil Society: What constitutes the social in social entrepreneurship?



A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing





Chapter 6 Civic Innovation in Value Chains: Towards Workers as Agents in Non-governmental Labour Regulation



Karin Astrid Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa 





Chapter 7 Civic Innovation by Family Farmers in the Face of Global Value Chain Inclusion: Between Material Conditions and Imagined Futures



Lee Pegler and Wanessa Marques Silva



Chapter 8 Exploring embodiment and intersectionality in transnational feminist activist research



Wendy Harcourt, Rosalba Icaza and Virginia Vargas





Chapter 9 Towards new perspectives on labour precarity and decent work of sex workers



Silke Heumann, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Empower Foundation





Chapter 10 Resistance and Hope: youth responding to the economic crisis in Southern Europe



Paulina (Sat) Trejo-Mendez, Paula Sánchez de la Blanca, Laura Santamaría Buitrago, Emma Claire Sardoni and Guilia Simula with Wendy Harcourt





Chapter 11 Civic Activism and Social Accountability: a Quantitative Approach



Anderson Macedo de Jesus and Irene van Staveren 





Biography

Kees Biekart is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.



Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.



Peter Knorringa is Professor of Private Sector and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.