Realizing the Basic Income: Competing Claims to Expertise in Transformative Social Innovation

Bonno Pel; Julia Backhaus

doi:10.23987/sts.60871

Realizing the Basic Income: Competing Claims to Expertise in Transformative Social Innovation

Bonno Pel^*, Julia Backhaus

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Abstract

Current social innovation initiatives towards societal transformations bring forward new ways of doing and organizing, but new ways of knowing as well. Their efforts towards realizing those are important sites for the investigation of contemporary tensions of expertise. The promotion of new, transformative ways of knowing typically involves a large bandwidth of claims to expertise. The attendant contestation
is unfolded through the exemplar case of the Basic Income in which the historically evolved forms of academic political advocacy are increasingly accompanied by a new wave of activism. Crowd-funding initiatives, internet activists, citizen labs, petitions and referenda seek to realize the BI through different claims to expertise than previous attempts. Observing both the tensions between diverse claims to expertise and the overall co-production process through which the Basic Income is realized, this
contribution concludes with reflections on the politics of expertise involved in transformative social innovation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-101
Number of pages	19
Journal	Science and Technology Studies
Volume	33
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23987/sts.60871
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

expertise
basic income
social innovation
contestation
co-production
KNOWLEDGE
INFRASTRUCTURES
ACTIVISM

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