Tackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective
This paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach offers a number of conceptual and evaluative benefits for understanding social innovation and—in particular, its capacity to tackle marginalisation. Focusing on the substantive freedoms and achieved functionings of individuals introduces a multi...
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| description | This paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach offers a number of conceptual and evaluative benefits for understanding social innovation and—in particular, its capacity to tackle marginalisation. Focusing on the substantive freedoms and achieved functionings of individuals introduces a multidimensional, plural appreciation of disadvantage, but also of the strategies to overcome it. In light of this, and the institutional embeddedness of marginalisation, effective social innovation capable of tackling marginalisation depends on (a) the participation of marginalised individuals in (b) a process that addresses the social structuration of their disadvantage. In spite of the high-level ideals endorsed by the European Union (EU), social innovation tends to be supported through EU policy instruments as a means towards the maintenance of prevailing institutions, networks and cognitive ends. This belies the transformative potential of social innovation emphasised in EU policy documentation and neglects the social structuration processes from which social needs and societal challenges arise. One strategy of displacing institutional dominance is to incorporate groups marginalised from multiple institutional and cognitive centres into the policy design and implementation process. This incorporates multiple value sets into the policy-making process to promote social innovation that is grounded in the doings and beings that all individuals have reason to value. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e4dea241-4584-473e-848a-1ae31b6b0f222023-03-03T13:39:05ZTackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspectiveJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e4dea241-4584-473e-848a-1ae31b6b0f22EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2017Von Jacobi, NEdmiston, DZiegler, RThis paper demonstrates that the capabilities approach offers a number of conceptual and evaluative benefits for understanding social innovation and—in particular, its capacity to tackle marginalisation. Focusing on the substantive freedoms and achieved functionings of individuals introduces a multidimensional, plural appreciation of disadvantage, but also of the strategies to overcome it. In light of this, and the institutional embeddedness of marginalisation, effective social innovation capable of tackling marginalisation depends on (a) the participation of marginalised individuals in (b) a process that addresses the social structuration of their disadvantage. In spite of the high-level ideals endorsed by the European Union (EU), social innovation tends to be supported through EU policy instruments as a means towards the maintenance of prevailing institutions, networks and cognitive ends. This belies the transformative potential of social innovation emphasised in EU policy documentation and neglects the social structuration processes from which social needs and societal challenges arise. One strategy of displacing institutional dominance is to incorporate groups marginalised from multiple institutional and cognitive centres into the policy design and implementation process. This incorporates multiple value sets into the policy-making process to promote social innovation that is grounded in the doings and beings that all individuals have reason to value. |
| spellingShingle | Von Jacobi, N Edmiston, D Ziegler, R Tackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective |
| title | Tackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective |
| title_full | Tackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective |
| title_fullStr | Tackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective |
| title_short | Tackling marginalisation through social innovation? Examining the EU social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective |
| title_sort | tackling marginalisation through social innovation examining the eu social innovation policy agenda from a capabilities perspective |
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