1st Edition

People-Centered Social Innovation Global Perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm

Edited By Swati Banerjee, Stephen Carney, Lars Hulgard Copyright 2020
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

Social Innovation is emerging as an alternate interdisciplinary development pathway of knowledge and practice that aims to understand and address contemporary complexities and multi – dimensional social realities. BEPA (2011) defines social innovation as, ‘innovations that are social in both their ends and means’. However, though Social Innovation is a widely-used term; its conceptual... Read more

Introduction



Swati Banerjee, Stephen Carney and Lars Hulgard





Social Innovation Learning from Critical Social Entrepreneurship Studies: How Are They Critical and Why Do We Need Them?



Luise Li Langergaard





Arenas for Gendering Social Innovation and Marginalized Women’s Collectives



Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Swati Banerjee





Genealogy and Institutionalization of People-Centered Social Innovation in Kudumbashree, Kerala, India



P. K. Shajahan and Lars Hulgård





Ethos of Social Innovation: In Search of a Decolonizing Analysis



Adriane Vieira Ferrarini





Informal Entrepreneurship as Adaptive Innovation: Strategies Among Migrant Workers in Indian Cities



Sunil D. Santha and Devisha Sasidevan





Buen Vivir as an Innovative Development Model



Andres Morales, Roger Spear, Michael Ngoasong, and Silvia Sacchetti





Indian Diasporic Communities: Exploring Belonging, Marginality and Transnationalism



Rashmi Singla, P. K. Shajahan and Sujata Sriram





Innovations in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Fostering State-University-Community Nexus



Abdul Shaban and Prashant B Narnaware





Social Innovation in Africa: An Empirical and Conceptual Analysis



Jeremy Millard, Mohamed Wageih and Bev Meldrum





Social Innovations as Heretical Practices



Silla Marie Mørch Sievers





List of Contributors



Index

Biography

Swati Banerjee, PhD is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India and Co-ordinator of the Right Livelihood College (RLC) - TISS.



Stephen Carney, PhD is Associate Professor in Comparative Education Policy at Roskilde University in Denmark.



 Lars Hulgård, PhD is Professor of social entrepreneurship, Roskilde University, Denmark and visiting professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.