Social Innovation, Social Enterprises and the Cultural Economy: Cultural and Artistic Social Enterprises in Practice [Paperback]

1. Culture at the Crossroads of the XXI Century Transitions 2. Social Enterprise as Vehicle for Social Innovation in Culture 3. Culture as a Field for Social Innovation and Social Enterprise 4. Diffusing Social Innovation 5. The Case of SMart: A Unique European Social Enterprise in the Field of Culture 6. Focus on Three Country Cases: Austria, Spain and Hungary 7. SMart Arrives to Austria, Spain and Hungary 8. Culture and the Arts as Companions in the Unpostponable Transitions

Roc?o Nogales Muriel is Director of the EMES International Research Network (Belgium/Spain) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Zaragoza (Spain).

Faced with a depleted planet and a series of connected crises, socially minded agents and entities within the world of culture and the arts are reacting from within. With insights from sociology, economics, and cultural management and policy, this book aims to chronicle the journey of SMart  a cultural and artistic social enterprise now present in eight European countries  in order to illustrate such organisations efforts to achieve its potential for social innovation and transformation. Tackling the endemic precariousness and intermittency of work through innovative arrangements for cultural workers and artists has been central to these efforts. In many cases, however, this activism not only had a direct impact at the level of individual and collective labour, but also has transformed the ways culture is governed.

Readers of this book will better understand the connection between social innovation and culture and the arts; gain awareness of the trends and transformations within the field of culture and cultural work and their connection with institutional arrangements; and critically engage with the processes, challenges and benefits of scaling up and diffusing social£<