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Social Innovation Re-Loaded: The Social as Innovation
From: Interrupting Innovation
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In this chapter, Gharabaghi redefines social innovation as a way of being in relation to social problems rather than a method for solving them, challenging activities that perpetuate existing power structures.
Contributors
Kiaras Gharabaghi
Melanie Panitch is an associate professor and executive director, Office of Social Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University. As the John C. Eaton Chair of Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, she co-designed a minor in social innovation and developed partnerships internationally. She spearheaded the Sanctuary Scholars initiative, providing access to postsecondary for students with precarious immigration status. An activist, advocate, researcher and educator with strong roots in the disability rights movement, she was the founding director of the School of Disability Studies at TMU. The exhibit she co-curated, Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember, is in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. She is the author of Mothers, Disability and Organization: Accidental Activists.
