Co-creation research for transformative times: Facilitating foresight capacity in view of global sustainability challenges

Wibeck, Victoria; Eliasson, Karin; Neset, Tina-Simone

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.11.023

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“…This thesis is part of the research programme Mistra Geopolitics (https://www.mistra-geopolitics.se/). This programme employs a participatory research design in which focus group interviews were used early on in a cocreation process to explore and identify ideas and understandings that could inform future research (Wibeck, Eliasson, and Neset 2022).…”

Section: Information and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The goal of these focus group interviews was to explore the participants' shared understanding of current and future challenges in a Swedish context and the role of Sweden in relation to global changes on a larger scale and sustainable development, as part of the initial phase of the Mistra Geopolitics research programme. The participatory process of the Mistra Geopolitics programme is reported in Wibeck, Eliasson, and Neset (2022).…”

Section: Information and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

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Transformations towards Sustainable Food Systems : Pathways, Governance, and Actors in a Swedish and European Union Context

Eliasson

2023

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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Food systems are central to global sustainability, while being complex systems where places and people are intertwined over large distances and at different scales. Transformations towards sustainable food systems have been called for in both research and policy, and Sweden and the European Union have declared high ambitions to act as global leaders in these transformations. While food production in Sweden and the European Union is often portrayed as largely sustainable in a global context, the region is highly dependent on food imports, with relatively large environmental footprints globally.This thesis aims to explore transformative pathways towards sustainability, with a particular focus on sustainable food systems, in a Swedish and European Union context. The thesis specifically studies the following research questions: (1) What constitutes transformations towards sustainability, and in particular sustainable food systems, from the perspectives of Swedish stakeholders, including food system practitioners, and European Union policy frameworks? (2) What roles, responsibilities, and agency do Swedish stakeholders, including food system practitioners and European Union policy frameworks, attribute to different actors? (3) How can interconnections and accountability in global food systems be understood and governed in light of societal transformations towards sustainability? (4) What are the implications for transformative pathways towards sustainability?The thesis builds on four papers that use focus group methodology (PI and PII), involving Swedish stakeholders, including food-system practitioners, analyses of European Green Deal policies (PII and PIII), and quantitative investigation of phosphorus fertiliser use in Brazilian soybean production and related biodiversity impacts (PIV).Four overarching conclusions are drawn from the findings: (I) Shared goals and consensus are emphasised as essential, while a diversity of transformative pathways and understandings of challenges and priorities needs to be recognised, with attention being paid to how specific choices might include and exclude pathways and actors. (II) Emerging shifts in how food is valued open up opportunities for transformative change in which the 'true' cost of food is acknowledged, alongside a recognition of non-economic values of food, which presupposes alignment at the practical, political, and personal levels. (III) The identified pathways comprise public accountability regimes, incentives for more sustainable consumption, regulations to reduce resource use and impacts of food production. (IV) The attribution of accountability to trading operators in the accountability regime proposed by the European Union highlights an extended focus from food production and consumption towards regulating flows and intermediate actors in food systems.

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Section: Information and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Information and Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformations towards Sustainable Food Systems : Pathways, Governance, and Actors in a Swedish and European Union Context

Eliasson

2023

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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“…Each of these has its own methods and approaches, though they can be brought together under the umbrella of dialogical sense-making analysis. Such analysis has recently been applied in a sustainability transformations setting by Linnér and Wibeck (2019; see also Linnér, 2021 andWibeck et al, 2022). The focus of such studies may differ, but may for example be directed to focus group participants' stories of current unsustainability and their visions for sustainable futures (Wibeck et al, 2019), or core narratives of transformation processes (Linnér and Wibeck, 2019).…”

Section: Dialogical Sense-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dethroning the Planetary Perspective: Dealing with Actually-Occurring Transformations Using Dialogical Sense-Making and Critical Phenomenology

Woroniecki¹,

Wibeck²,

Zeiler³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Transformation studies have been leaning towards the more practical aspects of change processes and have not yet dealt sufficiently with their personal and political dimensions. They are arguably constrained in doing so if they are either overly focussed on systems and how to control them or on individualistic values and behaviours. In this study we show how the actually-occurring societal transformations that people face can be usefully approached through the lenses of dialogical sense-making and critical phenomenology. While distinct, these approaches share a concern with aspects missed when transformation is abstracted and alienated from people’s lives; namely people’s lived experiences during times of change, and the conditions of possibility for these experiences. Dialogical sense-making explores how people create meaning around transformations, through interactions with other people, with different lines of arguments, and as part of broader public discourse. Critical phenomenology engages with subjectivity and lived experience, and with the role of foundational as well as socio-culturally dominant yet contingent structures in shaping our ways of perceiving, experiencing and knowing the world. Through a discussion of insights from these approaches, we show how they offer tools that enable new questions about transformative change as it is experienced and made sense of. Situating analyses of tranformation from within a focus on experience brings us closer to understanding the significance of change processes in people’s lives, and allows for an inquiry into the conditions of experience, including transformative experiences.

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“…Inter-and transdisciplinary co-creation of knowledge and knowledge platforms navigating the related science-policy-society interface (e.g. the Evidensia platform (https://www.evidensia.eco/)) may thereby offer valuable opportunities to foster dialogues about sustainable agriculture in an interconnected world (Burch et al, 2019;Jacobi et al, 2022;Wibeck et al, 2022).…”

Section: Moving Forward: the Role Of Scientific Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards: A coverage analysis of sustainability requirements

Sonderegger

Heinimann

Diogo

et al. 2022

Earth System Governance

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Co-creation research for transformative times: Facilitating foresight capacity in view of global sustainability challenges

Cited by 24 publications

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Transformations towards Sustainable Food Systems : Pathways, Governance, and Actors in a Swedish and European Union Context

Transformations towards Sustainable Food Systems : Pathways, Governance, and Actors in a Swedish and European Union Context

Dethroning the Planetary Perspective: Dealing with Actually-Occurring Transformations Using Dialogical Sense-Making and Critical Phenomenology

Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards: A coverage analysis of sustainability requirements

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