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Special ARJ Issue on Social Innovation and Transformations is out

Action research for social innovation is transformative because it emphasizes new configurations of relationship that connect to governance.

In the latest ARJ Special Issue on Social Innovations and Transformation, the term ‘social innovation’ offers an umbrella for new ways of thinking, acting, and organizing differently. Through this lens we see transformation is (still!) possible and being achieved through innovative ways of relating all over the world. In the spirit of action research, these news ways of ways of thinking, acting, and organizing combine to address unmet social needs while often challenging dominant institutional processes.

In the special issue we highlight an illustrative handful of social innovations that interact successfully with governance systems that both stimulate their existence and show how it to muddle through exceedingly difficult to institutionalize new ways of relating.

The special issue highlights that it is at the level of interconnection (among people and between people and natural systems) that transformative action germinates.