People-Centered Social Innovation Global Perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation Series

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 understanding and the specific relation to social change remains under explored.

People Centered Social Innovation: Global perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm attempts to revisit and extend the existing understanding of Social Innovation in practice by focusing upon the lived realities of marginalized groups and communities. The emerging field of people-centered development is placed in dialogue with theory and concepts from the more established field of social innovation to create a new approach; one that adopts a global perspective, engaging with very different experiences of marginality across the global north and south. Theoretically, ?People Centered Social Innovation: Global Perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm? draws upon ?northern? understandings of change and improvement as well as ?southern? theory concerns for epistemological diversity and meaning making. The result is an experiment aimed at reimagining research and practice that seriously needs to center the actor in processes of social transformation.

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

Swati Banerjee, PhDis 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.