Social Innovations in the Urban Context / edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers, Annette Zimmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandsen, Taco, Editor.

Contributor:

Brandsen, Taco, Editor.

Cattacin, Sandro., Editor.

Evers, Adalbert, Editor.

Zimmer, Annette., Editor.

Series:

Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies, An International Multidisciplinary Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Social policy.

Political science.

Social Policy.

Political Theory.

Local Subjects:

Sociology.

Social Policy.

Political Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has significantly progressed, thanks to an abundance of studies on social innovation both general and sector-specific. However, despite the valuable research conducted over the past years, the systematic analysis of social innovation is still contested and incomplete. The questions asked in the book are the following: 1. What is the nature of social innovations? 2.What patterns can be identified in social innovations emerging at the local level? 3.How is the emergence and spreadof social innovations related to urban governance? More precisely, which conditions and arrangements facilitate and hinders social innovation? We explore these questions using different types of data and methods, and studying different contexts. In particular, we focus on innovations that aim at solving problems of the young unemployed, single parents and migrants. The analysis is based on original research carried out in the period 2010-2014 in the framework of the European project WILCO.

Contents:

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Social Innovation: A Sympathetic and Critical Interpretation

Part II: Urban contexts for local innovations

Chapter 3: “Everybody on Board? Opportunity Structures for Social Innovations in Münster”

Chapter 4: Inertia, Clearings, and Innovations in Malmö

Chapter 5: Birmingham, Priority to Economics, Social Innovation at the Margins

Chapter 6: Social Policies and Governance in Geneva: What about Social Innovation?

Chapter 7: Milan, a City Lost in the Transition from the Growth Machine Paradigm Towards a Social Innovation Approach

Chapter 8: Poor but Sexy? Berlin as a Context for Social Innovation

Part III: Local Social Innovations

Chapter 9: Social Innovations as Messages: Democratic Experimentation in Local Welfare Systems

Chapter 10: Warsaw: Paving new ways for participation of mothers, fathers and children in local public and social life - The MaMa Foundation

Chapter 11: Zagreb: Parents in Action – Innovative ways of support and policies for children, women and families.-Chapter 12: Amsterdam: Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research, and Talent Development – the BOOT project

Chapter 13: Lille: Co-production of housing in a major urban renewal district

Chapter 14: Pamplona: Neighbourhood Children services – a grassroots and local council initiative

Chapter 15: Berlin: Kreuzberg acts – entrepreneurship in the district

Chapter 16: Milan: “We help you to help yourself”. The project of the Fondazione Welfare Ambrosiano

Chapter 17: Stockholm: Innovative ways of supporting children of single (lone) mothers

Chapter 18: NijmEGEN: Work corporations - for the unemployed, by the unemployed

Chapter 19: Birmingham: The Youth Employment and Enterprise Rehearsal project

Chapter 20: Birmingham: A “locality approach” to combating worklessness

Chapter 21: Münster: How PreventionVisits Improve Local Child Protection

Chapter 22: BARCELONA: A citizen´s agreement for an inclusive CITY

Chapter 23: Bern: Integration guidelines

Part IV: Conclusions

Chapter 24: The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research: Embracing the Dark Side

Chapter 25: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Social Innovation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

948834919