{"id":1039,"date":"2019-01-31T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:37:15","slug":"are-social-innovations-changing-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essi-net.eu\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Are social innovations changing the game?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What are the #gamechangers of our times? How do economic trends, #climate change, technological revolutions and other such macro-developments relate to #socialchange and #socialinnovation?<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2014, the TRANSIT project<\/a>\u00a0 gathered a total of 25 scholars from across the world to discuss the role of #gamechangers in transformative #socialinnovation processes, from the perspective of various disciplines, theoretical traditions, and world regions. Based on this exchange a special issue<\/a> with nine contributions was published in Ecology & Society.<\/em><\/p>\n

This special issue unpacks the notion of #gamechangers, both theoretically and empirically. The contributions identify a diversity of game-changers (in temporal, geographical and functional terms), such as weather #storm, the economic crisis or the #Anthropocene, next to #narrative and policy interventions. Game-changers are thus not necessarily confined to a specific level, such as only being \u2018macro developments\u2019. Typologies of game changers include single events vs. long term developments or the distinction between seminal, exogenous and endogamous game-changers.<\/p>\n

The game metaphor, i.e. a game as consisting of rules, a field and players, helps to unpack a diversity of empirical and conceptual game-changers and assists in exploring the interplay of different empirical phenomena across time and scales. However, it also is a blurry notion that defies clear definitions and indicators. To quote the editorial synthesis<\/a>: \u201cMoreover, as this game metaphor emphasizes, the need for changing the rules, i.e., structural transformative change, one could argue that it invokes a way of thinking, e.g., in terms of winners and losers, beginning and end, and competition, that could reproduce those very structures that some transformative social innovation endeavors aim to challenge.<\/em>\u201d. This special issue thus reminds us to remain critical of the metaphors we use.<\/p>\n

All articles in the special issue are open access and free to download.<\/p>\n

References: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Avelino, F., Wittmayer, J.M., Kemp, R. and A. Haxeltine (2017) Game changers and Transformative Social Innovation. Ecology & Society, 22(4): 41<\/p>\n

Campos, I., Alves, F., Dinis, J., Truninger, M., Vizinho, A. and Penha-Lopes, G. (2016). Climate Adaptation, Transitions, and Socially Innovative Action-Research Approaches. Ecology and<\/p>\n

Society, 21(1):13.<\/p>\n

Cipolla, C., Afonso, R., Pel, B., Bartholo, R., Silva, \u00c9. R. and Proen\u00e7a J\u00fanior, D. (2017). Coproduced Game-Changing in Transformative Social Innovation: Reconnecting the \u201cBroken City\u201d of Rio de Janeiro. Ecology and Society, 22(3):3.<\/p>\n

Gordon, A., Becerra, L., & Fressoli, M. (2017). Potentialities and Constraints in the Relation between Social Innovation and Public Policies: Some Lessons from South America. Ecology and Society, 22(4):2.<\/p>\n

Loorbach, D., Avelino, F., Haxeltine, A., Wittmayer, J.M., O’Riordan, T., Weaver, P. and Kemp, R. (2016). The Economic Crisis as a Game Changer? Exploring the Role of Social Construction in Sustainability Transitions. Ecology and Society 21(4):15.<\/p>\n

Olsson, P., Moore, M. L., Westley, F. and McCarthy, D. (2017). The Concept of the Anthropocene as a Game-changer: A New Context for Social Innovation and Transformations to Sustainability. Ecology and Society, 22(2):31.<\/p>\n

Pel, B., Wallenborn, G., & Bauler, T. (2016). Emergent Transformation Games: Exploring Social Innovation Agency and Activation through the Case of the Belgian Electricity Blackout Threat. Ecology and Society, 21(2):17.<\/p>\n

Prasad, S. (2016). Innovating at the Margins: the System of Rice Intensification in India and Transformative Social Innovation. Ecology and Society, 21(4):7.<\/p>\n

Swilling, M. (2016). Africa\u2019s Game Changers and the Catalysts of Social and System Innovation. Ecology and Society, 21(1):37.<\/p>\n

Westley, F., McGowan, K., Antadze, N., Blacklock, J. and Tjornbo, O. (2016). How Game Changers Catalyzed, Disrupted, and Incentivized Social Innovation: Three Historical Cases of Nature Conservation, Assimilation, and Women\u2019s Rights. Ecology and Society, 21(4):13.<\/p>\n

Author(s): Flor Avelino & Julia Wittmayer, DRIFT, Erasmus University Rotterdam<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Orginally published: 24 Jan 2018<\/span>, on www.siceurope.eu <\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The SIC project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 693883<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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