Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion

A Critical Appraisal

By: Pieter Cools (Contribution by), Carla Weinzierl (Contribution by), Bernhard Leubolt (Contribution by), Tatiana Saruis (Contribution by), Sebastiano Sabato (Contribution by)

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Hardcover | 10 December 2019 | Edition Number 1

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276 Pages

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Based on more than thirty case studies in eight different countries, this book explores the governance dynamics of local social innovations in the field of poverty reduction. The diverse team of contributors reflect on the trajectory of social innovation in European governance. They illustrate how different governance dynamics and welfare mixes enable or hinder poverty reduction strategies and analyze how they involve a diversity of actors, instruments, and resources at different spatial scales.

The contributions are based on research motivated by the standstill in the fight against poverty in Europe and the anxiety that conventional macro-social policies are insufficient to deal with the current challenges.

About the Authors

Stijn Oosterlynck is Associate Professor in Urban Sociology at the University of Antwerp, Sociology Department. He teaches courses on urban studies, poverty and social inequality. His research is concerned with local social innovation and welfare state restructuring, the political sociology of urban development, urban renewal and community building and new forms of solidarity in diversity.

Andreas Novy is Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria). He is currently head of the institute of Multi-Level Governance and Development and president of the International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS). His research focuses on urban development, social innovation and transdisciplinarity.

Yuri Kazepov is Professor of International Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Vienna (Austria) from March 2015. His fields of interest are urban governance, citizenship and urban quality of life, social policies in comparative perspective.

Industry Reviews

"This book is a milestone in the experimental world of social innovation, the micro-governance of social innovation and the debate on practices of future democracy." Frank Moulaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
"In today's welfare states, poverty remains a largely intractable problem for policy makers and a persistent reality for many citizens. This book critically assesses the potential of social innovation. The book successfully paves the way for different policy paradigms - social protection, social investment and social innovation - to speak to each other. Against the background of the major challenges we face, this is an important, and even necessary, task." Bea Cantillon, Universiteit Antwerpen
"This interdisciplinary volume sheds important new light on the governance challenges facing social innovations in Europe and Brazil. Participatory bottom-up politics empowers excluded citizens, satisfies needs, and improves public programs." Hilary Silver, Georgetown University and Brown University
"Theoretically strong with interesting case studies based on excellent European research." Enzo Mingione, Universita di Milano-Bicocca

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