The Role of Social Dreaming: Utopia as the Unknown Variable in Social Innovation?

Luise Li Langergaard, Jennifer Eschweiler*

*Corresponding author

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to establish a conceptual connection between social innovation (SI) and utopia. Both refer to change in the future, imply an intent to bring about or envision a better state of affairs and therefore offer some critique of the present. Current concepts of SI lack focus on thecritiques, hopes and imaginaries that underlie SI initiatives. The paper turns towards the concept of utopia to fully understand SI as a tool for social change and engages with how utopia can become part of a social theory of change.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Social Entrepreneurship
Vol/bind15
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)1039-1057
Antal sider19
ISSN1942-0676
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024

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