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- Nordfeldt, Marie, 1961-, et al.
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Stockholm: Innovative Ways of Supporting Children of Single (Lone) Mothers
- 2016
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Ingår i: Social Innovations in the Urban Context. - Cham, Switzerland : Springer. - 9783319215501 - 9783319215518 ; , s. 235-242
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Children of Single (Lone) Mothers is a project carried out by Fryshuset, a well-known and entrepreneurial third sector organisation with a wide range of activities within the field of youth policy. This project started with the aim to support and strengthen children living with a single mother in economically vulnerable circumstances. From a health perspective, the focus is on the everyday situation of children and mothers. This represents an example of an innovation initiated within civil society, in line with the traditional role of third sector organisations to be pioneers and to focus attention on new needs and new groups with needs that are not covered in other ways. There are elements of advocacy in this innovation with the aim to raise attention to the issue of child poverty and the situation of unemployed or low-income single mothers. Fryshuset implements this by developing cooperation with different stakeholders and spreads awareness on this subject through these channels.
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- Segnestam Larsson, Ola, 1971-, et al.
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Inertia, clearings, and innovations in Malmö
- 2016
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Ingår i: Social Innovations in the Urban Context. - London : Springer. - 9783319215518 - 9783319215501 ; , s. 65-81
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Malmö serves as an illustration of how urban governance arrangements provide structures for social innovations and where the city of Malmö could be categorized as an example of the governance of social challenges. This chapter contributes to the debate on social innovations by arguing that attention must be paid to the relationship between inertia, clearings in local contexts, and innovations in order to understand the underpinnings of social innovations in local welfare regimes. Specifically, in addition to describing the local welfare regime and a set of social innovations in the city of Malmö, the chapter analyses the different types of clearings that proved fertile for the development of the social innovations under study. Rather than arguing that social innovations come to the fore as a result of the quality of certain individuals or being locally and socially embedded, the authors put forth that innovations may also emerge in clearings as a consequence of inertia, in the case of Malmö in the shape and form of an unwillingness to change due to political and ideological factors.
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- Segnestam Larsson, Ola, 1971-, et al.
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The Implicit Normative Assumptions of Social Innovation Research : Embracing the Dark Side
- 2016
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Ingår i: Social Innovations in the Urban Context. - London : Springer London. - 9783319215501 - 9783319215518 ; , s. 293-302
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter critically appraises the concept and practice of social innovation. Usually discussed in positive terms, the authors ask if there are also drawbacks linked to social innovation. Both the conceptual analysis and the empirical review of findings suggest a number of critical points, such as the implicit values of the concepts; the assumed harmony with economic and technological innovation; the current emphasis on instrumentalising social innovation, for example, through privileging innovations that can be scaled and mainstreamed; and a dominant focus on successful cases, where failure is equally important and more common.
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