5 options
Social Innovation for Real-World Transformation : Roadmaps for Changing the World.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chateauvert, Julie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social problems.
- Social change--Citizen participation.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book explores the concept and practice of social innovation, emphasizing systemic change and social justice. It details the development of the Élisabeth Bruyère School of Social Innovation, the first of its kind in Canada, which focuses on addressing injustices, reducing poverty, and fostering equity through innovative solutions. Written collaboratively by a team of experts, the book examines strategic challenges, methodologies, and tools for promoting grassroots initiatives, cooperatives, and social enterprises. Targeting activists, community leaders, and scholars, it serves as both a reflective narrative and a practical guide for driving transformative change in the face of global crises, including social inequality and environmental challenges. Generated by AI.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Social Innovation For Real-World Transformation: Roadmaps for Changing the World
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Introduction: Learning to change the world
- A world in crisis
- Between entrepreneurship and emancipation
- How to change the world
- Social transformation in a post-.pandemic world
- 1 Innovation beyond buzzwords
- A short history of a word
- A response to neoliberalism
- The emergence of social neoliberalism
- Social economy and social democracy
- Liberatory model
- 2 The battlefield of social innovation: strategic challenges and paradoxes
- Polanyi and the double movement
- Fraser and the emancipation movement
- The notion of social effect
- The organizational paradoxes of social innovation
- Strategic drift
- What is a field?
- Strategic action fields
- Fields: resonance and interdependence
- The social innovation field
- 3 Understanding the world to change it
- What is social justice?
- Environmental justice
- The art of prefiguration
- 4 The past as possibilities
- Resurgence and regeneration
- Restaging hope
- From what could have been (hoped for) to what could be
- 5 Centering intersectionality and equity
- Understanding structures of oppression
- Intersectionality
- Intersectionality and praxis: antiracism and anti-.oppression
- Decolonization
- Transformative justice
- 6 Acting collectively
- Reasons for collective action
- The art of mobilizing
- Between social movements and innovations
- 7 Driving change
- Symbolic construction of the social
- A matter of framing
- Public relations: the tools of framing
- Social movements and discursive strategies
- 8 Transforming the economy
- A brief definition of capitalism
- Different spheres of the economy
- Moving beyond the capitalist economy.
- Toward an entirely democratized economy
- The wealth of the commons
- Building postgrowth societies
- 9 Doing business differently
- Portrait of an entrepreneur
- The entrepreneur as a social change actor
- SSE case example: the cooperative model
- How to start a social organization
- Measuring social impact
- 10 Organizing democratically
- Deconstructing the myth of efficient verticality
- A short history of self-management
- Learning to self-manage
- 11 Community involvement
- Popular education and community organization
- Broadening grassroots participation
- Transforming municipal policy
- 12 Culture as resistance
- What is culture and why is it important?
- Authority and disempowerment: a culture of oppression
- Community empowerment: taking back our culture
- Culture: a catalyst for a better future?
- 13 Where do we stand? Unsettling the neoliberal university through engaged pedagogy
- Engaged research as a response to the neoliberalization of the university
- Rethinking pedagogy in our daily life
- Freire
- Mohanty
- hooks
- How we rethink pedagogy at the Élisabeth-.Bruyère School of Social Innovation
- Conclusion: Changing the scale
- From impact to social transformation
- Three forms of scaling
- The four Rs to change the system
- Reflexivity, narratives, resonance
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-7475-4
- OCLC:
- 1526229849
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.