Exploring civic innovation for social and economic transformation

1. Introduction : giving meaning to civic innovation / Kees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter Knorringa -- 2. The institutional foundations of civic innovation / Georgina M. Gomez and Holly A. Ritchie -- 3. Change actors and civic innovators : who triggers change? Systematising the role of interlocutors in civic innovation processes / Alan Fowler -- 4. Can consultants be civic innovators? Exploring their roles as auditors and allies / Sylvia I. Bergh and Kees Biekart -- 5. Between state, market and civil society : what constitutes the social in social entrepreneurship? / A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing -- 6. Civic innovation in value chains : towards workers as agents in non-governmental labour regulation / Karin Astrid Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa -- 7. Civic innovation by family farmers in the face of global value chain inclusion : between material conditions and imagined futures / Lee Pegler and Wanessa Marques Silva -- 8. Exploring embodiment and intersectionality in transnational feminist activist research / Wendy Harcourt, Rosalba Icaza and Virginia Vargas -- 9. Towards new perspectives on labour precarity adn decent work for sex workers' / Silke Heumann, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Empower Foundation -- 10. Resistance and hope : youth responses to the economic crisis in Southern Europe / Paulina (Sat) Trejo-Mendez. [et al.] -- 11. Civic activism and social accountability : a quantitative approach / Anderson Macedo de Jesus and Irene van Staveren -- 12. Minding the gap between activism and academia, or bridging it? Reflections on how to do civic innovation research / Kees Biekart and Karin Astrid Siegmann -- 13. Conclusion : moving agendas forward / Wendy Harcourt, Kees Biekart and Peter Knorringa.