1st Edition

Social Regeneration and Local Development Cooperation, Social Economy and Public Participation

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

Social regeneration is about the transformative processes that, through institutional choices that embody cooperation and inclusion, develop opportunities and capabilities for weak categories, and transversally for society. The challenge of social regeneration can be addressed, in part, through organisational solutions increasingly identified with social economy organisations, since they are... Read more

Introduction



Silvia Sacchetti, Asimina Christoforou, Michele Mosca





Part 1: Social Regeneration



1. Social Regeneration and Cooperative Institutions



Silvia Sacchetti and Carlo Borzaga





2. The Transformations of Welfare: From Solidarity to Individualism, and Back



Luca Fazzi





Part 2: Inclusive and cooperative organisations



3. Social Enterprise and Regeneration: A Participatory Approach 



Asimina Christoforou





4. Regenerating the Commons: Policy Design Models beyond CSR



Francesca Battistoni, Paolo Cottino and Flaviano Zandonai





5. Co-operative Leadership: Social and Spatial Regeneration in Rural Western Canada



Darcy Overland





6. The Social Regeneration of Mafias Assets: The Role of Social Cooperatives in Italy



Michele Mosca





7. Territorial Governance and the Social Economy in Migrants’ Reception. The Case of Romagna Faentina in Central Italy



Massimo Caroli and Ermanno Tortia





Part 3: Contextual Elements for Social Regeneration



8. Deliberative Participation: Bringing the Citizens Back In



Rudolf Lewanski





9. City Leadership and Social Regeneration: The Potential of Civic Leadership and the New Roles for Public Managers and Politicians



Alessandro Sancino and Leslie Budd





10. Digital Technology as a Tool for Social Regeneration: Web 2.0’s Intended and Unintended Outcomes Within a Society



Andres Morales and Sara Calvo





11. Immigration Policies, Public Decision-making Processes and Urban Regeneration: The Italian Case.



Luigi Ferrara and Salvatore Villani





12. Spatial Injustice and Social Capital: The Wall between East J

Biography



  • Dr Silvia Sacchetti is an  Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Italy.




  • Dr Asimina Christoforou is at the Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece






  • Michele Mosca is an associate professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Political Science, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy