This article responds to increasing public and academic discourses on social innovation,
which often rest on the assumption that social innovation can drive societal change and …

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in prefigurative politics, which refers to the
political strategies that model a future society on a micro level and aim to instantiate radical …

Local sustainability initiatives are studied from two scholarly perspectives: the perspective of
sociotechnical innovation, which relates to the capacity of bottom-up initiatives to contribute …

Capabilities need to be built from the bottom-up. Social innovations at the grassroots seek to
present new solutions to existing social problems. However, since the poor suffer from …

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.(Attributed to Kurt Lewin; quoted in
greenwood, 2015, 200) Action research is a refuge for social scientists who are dissatisfied …

This article addresses two central—yet insufficiently explored—characteristics of some
social movements: i.) abrupt and rapid social mobilizations leading to ii.) the construction of …

The context for this article is the rapid international growth of (surplus) food redistribution
initiatives. These are frequently reliant on networks of volunteer labour, often coordinated by …

It seems that Teasdale (2011) was right when saying that social enterprise has been a fluid
concept notably disputed by different actors over time—namely scholars, policymakers and …

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 …

The focus of social innovation initiatives on the market through food production is a classic
example of social inclusion within the context of emerging countries. From a long-term …