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Neue Publikation: Innovation as Repair

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Innovation und Reparatur haben mehr Überschneidungspunkte als gedacht. Cornelius Schubert untersucht, wie beide im Feld sozialer Innovationen zusammengedacht werden können.

The publication addresses social innovation both as a mode and as a means of social change. As a mode of social change, it has attracted academic attention for close to 70 years. As a means, it embodies distinct normative dispositions and has become popular in policy circles at least for the last 20 years. This chapter draws on the recent developments in the sociology of repair to offer a critical reading of the pro-innovation bias infused with the concept of social innovation on the level of EU policy. It is argued that these understandings can be fruitfully reframed within a repair narrative, whereas the proliferation of the buzzword “social innovation” warrants a closer examination from an innovation studies perspective. Connecting both repair studies and innovation studies thus offers a more nuanced understanding of current societal transformations and adds to the conceptual discussion of social change and social order.

Schubert, Cornelius (2026): „Innovation as Repair“, in: Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer; Arnold Windeler; Birgit Blättel-Mink (Hg.): Handbook of Innovation. Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Cham: Springer. 

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25143-6_61-1