SOCIAL INNOVATION AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
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- Author: MARC PARES
- ISBN: 9781785367878
- Availability: In Stock
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While liberal-representative democracies tend to conform to a
consensus-based post-political paradigm where there is no space for
alternatives and dissensus, new forms of democracy in practice are emerging
from below. This book explores new socially innovative initiatives that have
appeared following the 2011 global uprisings. Initiatives that flourish not
only as alternative responses to current social needs but also as new forms of
democracy, a democracy that comes from below, by and for the ‘have-nots’.
Combining theories of social innovation and
collective leadership, this book analyzes how disadvantaged communities have
addressed the effects of economic recession in two global cities: Barcelona and
New York. It draws upon several socially innovative initiatives in four neighbourhoods,
and offers new knowledge, ideas and tools, both to better understand how social
needs could be effectively and democratically satisfied, and to foster social
change initiatives at the community level. Civic capacity and democratic
leadership practices emerge as crucial factors to make social change happen.