Social innovation (SI) is a promising concept that has been developed and mobilized in academia, government policies, philanthropic programs, entrepreneurial projects. Scholars propose multiple conceptions and categorization of what is SI (trajectories, approaches, theoretical strands, paradigms, streams). Some recent work has also addressed the question of who is doing SI. In both cases, the what and the who remain the key characteristic of SI. Two approaches are confronted: one where SI is more presented as a concept that reproduces the neoliberal–capitalist societies; a second that conceives SI as a transformative and emancipatory pathway. With this article, I contribute to the possibilities to conceive SI as performative concept. My proposition is to analyze SI as a discourse with precise performative practices and apparatus. By doing so, it allows scholars and practitioners to better reflect and identify the effects, tensions and ambivalence and possibilities of SI. Moreover, it gives us few key aspects of what might constitute an emancipatory social innovation.

社会创新 (SI) 是一个有前途的概念，已在学术界、政府政策、慈善计划、创业项目中得到发展和动员。学者们对什么是 SI（轨迹、方法、理论分支、范式、流）提出了多种概念和分类。最近的一些工作也解决了谁在做 SI的问题。在这两种情况下，what和who仍然是 SI 的关键特征。面临两种方法：一种是将 SI 更多地呈现为再现新自由主义资本主义社会的概念；第二个将 SI 视为变革性和解放性的途径。在这篇文章中，我为将 SI 设想为表演概念的可能性做出了贡献。我的主张是将 SI 分析为一种具有精确表演实践和装置的话语。通过这样做，它使学者和从业者能够更好地反思和识别 SI 的影响、紧张局势、矛盾和可能性。此外，它为我们提供了可能构成解放性社会创新的几个关键方面。