Von Jacobi, N, Edmiston, D orcid.org/0000-0001-8715-654X and Ziegler, R (2017) Tackling Marginalisation through Social Innovation? Examining the EU Social Innovation Policy Agenda from a Capabilities Perspective. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 18 (2). pp. 148-162. ISSN 1945-2829
Abstract
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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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Human Development and Capability Association. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Human Development and Capabilities on 09 Jan 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2016.1256277. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Social innovation, Marginalisation, Capabilities, Public policy, European Union |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 May 2017 14:10 |
Last Modified: | 09 May 2017 15:30 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/19452829.2016.1256277 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116039 |