Social Justice Innovation in Africa

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58977-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in African Development

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book discusses the potential of social innovation in the pursuit of social justice in Africa. In the twenty-first century, social innovation and entrepreneurship have attracted renewed attention as a way of promoting social justice and addressing challenges of poverty and inequality.

Drawing on perspectives from human rights, economics, business, development studies and anthropology, this book illustrates the entangled relationship between societal areas and activities, as well as different actors (individuals, communities, business actors, non-governmental organisations and public authorities) in social innovation. It identifies various models of social innovation, ranging from grassroots initiatives to public policymaking, and discusses their impact on socioeconomic welfare. It analyses a broad range of original research data and incorporates localised understandings of social innovation, highlighting both the empowering potential of social innovation and the possibility that it could sustain or create inequalities. As such, this book deepens an understanding of what makes social innovation ‘social’ and ‘just’.

Arguing that social justice innovation can only be understood in context, this book will be of interest for researchers and policy makers across the fields of human rights, economics, business, development studies, anthropology and African studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engström, Viljam

Mustaniemi-Laakso, Maija

Stark, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface  Introduction: Understanding Social Innovation in Africa  Part I: Conceptualizing Social Justice Innovation  Social Justice Innovation. A Cross-Disciplinary and Multilayered Agenda  Contextualizing and Conceptualizing the Social Enterprise – The Cooperative as an Enabler of Social Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa  Part II: Social Entrepreneurship  From Coffins to Coins: Ethiopian ‘iddir’ Navigating the Frontier of Social Enterprise  “Baron/Baroness” Food-Get-Together Celebrations and Mukando Village Contributions as Tools for Entrepreneurial Socialization and Innovation in Chikonye, Maheya and Murairwa Villages in Rural Zimbabwe  Self-Organized Waste Pickers: Marginalized Yet Vital to the African City of Bamako  Surviving on the Margins of Legality: Familial Ties, the Informal Economy and Re-Imagining Social Protection in Kenya  Part III: Social Technologies  Livelihood Outcomes of Social Innovations for Mobile Agricultural Extension Service Delivery in South-Central Uganda Enhancing Social Justice? Experimenting with Social Media in Preservice Teacher Education at Makerere University in Uganda Part IV: Societal Practices  The Constitutional Court of South Africa as an Agent of Social Justice  Community Perceptions of Social Justice in Benefit Distribution Mechanisms of Forestry Carbon Projects in Uganda  Leveraging and Regulating Pension Funds for Socially Responsive Investments in the Namibian Economy  Law, Clinics and Social Innovation in Africa: Addressing Justice Gaps

Über Autor(innen)

Viljam Engström is Head of research in Public International Law at Åbo Akademi University School of Law, Finland. His main research interests are international institutions, social protection and the function of law and legal concepts.

Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso is Postdoctoral Researcher at Åbo Akademi University School of Law/Institute for Human Rights, Finland, with research interest in issues related to vulnerability, accountability and international human rights law.

Laura Stark is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, and urban poverty in Africa and she has led five externally funded, multi-researcher projects.