Human Sciences and Welfare Innovation Applied research doctoral scholarships: 28 scholarships for innovative PhDs
The projects
• Interorganizational networks for poverty alleviation: theoretical and practical perspectives for sustainable policy. Case analysis.
Interorganizational networks for poverty alleviation: theoretical and practical perspectives for sustainable policy. Case analysis.
Company: Ripari Cooperativa Sociale
Tutor: Giuseppe Scaratti
This research project aims to investigate the functioning of interorganizational networks aimed at the construction and implementation of policies to prevent and combat poverty through the promotion of employability, in the context of Goals 1, 8 and 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In particular, the project aims to intercept, describe and explain the ways in which territorial actors of different natures (institutional, civic, professional and entrepreneurial) put into practice network strategies and forms of joint action for employment inclusion in the municipalities of the Ambito Sociale di Pioltello (Pioltello, Segrate, Vimodrone, Rodano), starting from a changing and diverse repertoire of shared knowledge.
The project takes the form of a case study based on the developmental ethnographic approach (Kerosuo, 2006), useful both to identify local, situated and meaningful knowledge systems and to investigate systems that co-evolve during the course of the study (and partly because of it).
Data will be collected through participant observation and interviews.
The lens of the theory of social practice (Reckwitz, 2017) and activity theory more generally will help to capture the connection between knowledge systems and actions: in particular, it is intended to investigate the connection between implicit theories of roles, cooperation, and organization and concrete collaborative practices, highlighting in particular which knowledge systems most promote functional interdependencies in multi-stakeholder platforms.
The project aims to increase understanding about the functioning of interorganizational networks aimed at producing welfare policies.
Starting with the individual case, it is intended to develop a taxonomy of spatial settings sorted according to their ability to promote effective interdependencies, to be generalized to other homologous settings.
At a time when welfare, health and labor policies are produced locally within interorganizational networks and territorial collaborative systems, the contribution could provide a tool for assessing territorial networks to plan the intensity of interventions needed to develop effective and sustainable collaborations.
