TY - JOUR
T1 - Institutionalizing Experimental Places for Inclusive Social Innovation: From Utopias to Heterotopias
AU - Sancino, Alessandro
AU - Scognamiglio, Fulvio
AU - Corvo, Luigi
AU - Imperiale, Francesca
AU - Pasi, Giulio
PY - 2023/6/12
Y1 - 2023/6/12
N2 - This essay embraces a notion of critical scholarship concerned with proposing normative and actionable alternatives that can create more inclusive societies and focuses on the role of institutionalizing experimental places for inclusive social innovation as a bottom-up strategic response to welfare state reforms. By mobilizing the notions of utopias and heterotopias in Foucault, the paper sheds light on the opportunity to move from policy utopias to democratic heterotopias, discussing the politics embedded in this cognitive shift and the democratic nature of social innovation changing social and governance relations by interacting with politico-administrative systems. Some obstacles to institutionalizing social innovation are highlighted, as well as some key governance mechanisms that can be activated either by public and/or social purpose organizations to try to overcome those obstacles. Finally, we discuss the importance of linking inclusive social innovation with democratic, rather than market logics.
AB - This essay embraces a notion of critical scholarship concerned with proposing normative and actionable alternatives that can create more inclusive societies and focuses on the role of institutionalizing experimental places for inclusive social innovation as a bottom-up strategic response to welfare state reforms. By mobilizing the notions of utopias and heterotopias in Foucault, the paper sheds light on the opportunity to move from policy utopias to democratic heterotopias, discussing the politics embedded in this cognitive shift and the democratic nature of social innovation changing social and governance relations by interacting with politico-administrative systems. Some obstacles to institutionalizing social innovation are highlighted, as well as some key governance mechanisms that can be activated either by public and/or social purpose organizations to try to overcome those obstacles. Finally, we discuss the importance of linking inclusive social innovation with democratic, rather than market logics.
U2 - 10.1007/s11266-023-00584-w
DO - 10.1007/s11266-023-00584-w
M3 - Article
SN - 0957-8765
VL - 35
SP - 240
EP - 252
JO - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
JF - VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
IS - 2
ER -