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

Luise Li Langergaard and Jennifer Eschweiler

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2024, vol. 15, issue 3, 1039-1057

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.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2022.2094990

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