Kees Biekart is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Peter Knorringa is Professor of Private Sector and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: Giving meaning to Civic InnovationKees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter KnorringaChapter 2 The Institutional Foundations of Civic InnovationGeorgina Gomez and Holly Ritchie Chapter 3 Change actors and civic innovators: who triggers change? Systematizing the role of interlocutors in civic innovation processesAlan Fowler Chapter 4 Can Consultants be Civic Innovators? Exploring their Roles as Auditors and AlliesSylvia I. Bergh and Kees BiekartChapter 5 Between State, Market and Civil Society: What constitutes the social in social entrepreneurship?A.H.J. (Bert) HelmsingChapter 6 Civic Innovation in Value Chains: Towards Workers as Agents in Non-governmental Labour RegulationKarin Astrid Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa Chapter 7 Civic Innovation by Family Farmers in the Face of Global Value Chain Inclusion: Between Material Conditions and Imagined FuturesLee Pegler and Wanessa Marques SilvaChapter 8 Exploring embodiment and intersectionality in transnational feminist activist researchWendy Harcourt, Rosalba Icaza and Virginia Vargas Chapter 9 Towards new perspectives on labour precarity and decent work of sex workersSilke Heumann, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Empower FoundationChapter 10 Resistance and Hope: youth responding to the economic crisis in Southern EuropePaulina (Sat) Trejo-Mendez, Paula Sánchez de la Blanca, Laura Santamaría Buitrago, Emma Claire Sardoni and Guilia Simula with Wendy HarcourtChapter 11 Civic Activism and Social Accountability: a Quantitative ApproachAnderson Macedo de Jesus and Irene van Staveren Chapter 12 Minding the gap between activism and academia – or bridging it? Reflections on how to do civic innovation researchKees Biekart and Karin Astrid Siegmann Chapter 13 Conclusion: Moving agendas forwardKees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter Knorringa

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Kees Biekart is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Peter Knorringa is Professor of Private Sector and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: Giving meaning to Civic InnovationKees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter KnorringaChapter 2 The Institutional Foundations of Civic InnovationGeorgina Gomez and Holly Ritchie Chapter 3 Change actors and civic innovators: who triggers change? Systematizing the role of interlocutors in civic innovation processesAlan Fowler Chapter 4 Can Consultants be Civic Innovators? Exploring their Roles as Auditors and AlliesSylvia I. Bergh and Kees BiekartChapter 5 Between State, Market and Civil Society: What constitutes the social in social entrepreneurship?A.H.J. (Bert) HelmsingChapter 6 Civic Innovation in Value Chains: Towards Workers as Agents in Non-governmental Labour RegulationKarin Astrid Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa Chapter 7 Civic Innovation by Family Farmers in the Face of Global Value Chain Inclusion: Between Material Conditions and Imagined FuturesLee Pegler and Wanessa Marques SilvaChapter 8 Exploring embodiment and intersectionality in transnational feminist activist researchWendy Harcourt, Rosalba Icaza and Virginia Vargas Chapter 9 Towards new perspectives on labour precarity and decent work of sex workersSilke Heumann, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Empower FoundationChapter 10 Resistance and Hope: youth responding to the economic crisis in Southern EuropePaulina (Sat) Trejo-Mendez, Paula Sánchez de la Blanca, Laura Santamaría Buitrago, Emma Claire Sardoni and Guilia Simula with Wendy HarcourtChapter 11 Civic Activism and Social Accountability: a Quantitative ApproachAnderson Macedo de Jesus and Irene van Staveren Chapter 12 Minding the gap between activism and academia – or bridging it? Reflections on how to do civic innovation researchKees Biekart and Karin Astrid Siegmann Chapter 13 Conclusion: Moving agendas forwardKees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter Knorringa

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Kees Biekart is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.Peter Knorringa is Professor of Private Sector and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

• Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction: Giving meaning to Civic InnovationKees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter KnorringaChapter 2 The Institutional Foundations of Civic InnovationGeorgina Gomez and Holly Ritchie Chapter 3 Change actors and civic innovators: who triggers change? Systematizing the role of interlocutors in civic innovation processesAlan Fowler Chapter 4 Can Consultants be Civic Innovators? Exploring their Roles as Auditors and AlliesSylvia I. Bergh and Kees BiekartChapter 5 Between State, Market and Civil Society: What constitutes the social in social entrepreneurship?A.H.J. (Bert) HelmsingChapter 6 Civic Innovation in Value Chains: Towards Workers as Agents in Non-governmental Labour RegulationKarin Astrid Siegmann, Jeroen Merk and Peter Knorringa Chapter 7 Civic Innovation by Family Farmers in the Face of Global Value Chain Inclusion: Between Material Conditions and Imagined FuturesLee Pegler and Wanessa Marques SilvaChapter 8 Exploring embodiment and intersectionality in transnational feminist activist researchWendy Harcourt, Rosalba Icaza and Virginia Vargas Chapter 9 Towards new perspectives on labour precarity and decent work of sex workersSilke Heumann, Karin Astrid Siegmann and Empower FoundationChapter 10 Resistance and Hope: youth responding to the economic crisis in Southern EuropePaulina (Sat) Trejo-Mendez, Paula Sánchez de la Blanca, Laura Santamaría Buitrago, Emma Claire Sardoni and Guilia Simula with Wendy HarcourtChapter 11 Civic Activism and Social Accountability: a Quantitative ApproachAnderson Macedo de Jesus and Irene van Staveren Chapter 12 Minding the gap between activism and academia – or bridging it? Reflections on how to do civic innovation researchKees Biekart and Karin Astrid Siegmann Chapter 13 Conclusion: Moving agendas forwardKees Biekart, Wendy Harcourt and Peter Knorringa

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