Abstract
Current social innovation initiatives towards societal transformations bring forward new ways of doing and organizing, but new ways of knowing as well. Their efforts towards realizing those are important sites for the investigation of contemporary tensions of expertise. The promotion of new, transformative ways of knowing typically involves a large bandwidth of claims to expertise. The attendant contestation is unfolded through the exemplar case of the Basic Income, in which the historically evolved forms of academic political advocacy are increasingly accompanied by a new wave of activism. Crowd-funding initiatives, internet activists, citizen labs, petitions and referenda seek to realize the BI through different claims to expertise than previous attempts. Observing both the tensions between diverse claims to expertise and the overall co-production process through which the Basic Income is realized, this contribution concludes with reflections on the politics of expertise involved in transformative social innovation.
Highlights
Transformative Social Innovation through new ways of knowingThat Basic Income, you see, in the end you just run into people’s basic assumptions about human behaviour and about society
Our empirical analysis is guided by the following questions: What turns in Basic Income (BI) advocacy can be distinguished and how to understand the related shifts in claims to expertise? What is their broader relevance for Transformative social innovation (TSI) and utopian politics?
Synthesizing the above empirical analysis, we can answer our research questions: What turns in BI advocacy can be distinguished and how to understand the related shifts in claims to expertise? What is their broader relevance for TSI and utopian politics?
Summary
Transformative Social Innovation through new ways of knowingThat Basic Income, you see, in the end you just run into people’s basic assumptions about human behaviour and about society. People who do not believe in something, you cannot convince them. Even though concrete tinkering with alternative doing and organizing is typical for the repertoires of these initiatives, the dissemination of new ways of knowing and counter-hegemonic ideas is a no less important dimension of such transformative agency (Riddell and Moore, 2015; Westley et al, 2017). This becomes evident through the considerable efforts that these collectives invest in the construction of persuasive narratives of change NJ: Citadel Press, pp. 605-623 Pel B (2016) Interactive Metal Fatigue; A Conceptual Contribution to Social Critique in Mobilities Research
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