Social Innovation, Its Potential and Challenges: View from the Global South and the Global North (Part I)
Language: English
Despite this growing interest around the theme, there are still several gaps in the sociological debate around social innovation, which has been relatively more restricted than that concerned with the social dimensions of science and technology. Aiming to contribute to fill in some of these gaps, this track seeks to promote a critical discussion around social innovation and its surrounding themes. We invite authors to reflect on the role of social innovation to address the issues of justice, inclusion, sustainability, empowerment, development – often with different approaches, dynamics and outputs in the Global North and the Global South – addressing the core question of how can social innovation lead to a just social transformation. We welcome papers that address conceptual aspects as well as empirical elements of social innovation experiences, its practices, policies and politics.