Key actors in community-driven social innovation in rural areas in the Nordic countries

Jungsberg, Leneisja; Copus, Andrew; Herslund, Lise Byskov; Nilsson, Kjell; Perjo, Liisa; Randall, Linda; Berlina, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.004

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“…As suggested by Jungsberg et al (2020), external actors and capacity building for local community play a significant role in development of SI in rural areas. It is likely that the current devaluation of the historical landscape in the Vlkolínec UNESCO site was due to a loss of traditional/inherited knowledge about land‐use management and governance (Molnar & Berkes, 2018; Smaliychuk et al, 2016).…”

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“…The interaction of external and local actors (as illustrated in the Result section-Figure4) appeared to be an important 'supportive condition' of the SI. While the role of local actors dominates in the initial phase of SI processes (e.g., to stimulate community actions to shape the future for their area); the external knowledge subsequently enriches the implementation phase by providing novel concepts for a robust development path of the SI.As suggested byJungsberg et al (2020), external actors and capacity building for local community play a significant role in development of SI in rural areas. It is likely that the current devaluation of the historical landscape in the Vlkolínec UNESCO site was due to a loss of traditional/inherited knowledge about land-use management and governance(Molnar & Berkes, 2018;Smaliychuk et al, 2016).…”

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The role of knowledge in supporting the revitalisation of traditional landscape governance through social innovation in Slovakia

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In this paper, we determine the role of knowledge in the development and consolidation of social innovation (SI) on the revitalisation of traditional farming in marginalised rural settings. We seek to address the following questions: (i) how the co‐production of knowledge in SI initiatives for the revitalisation of traditional farming might influence its development path, and (ii) how the networking of local and external actors accelerates knowledge co‐production and triggers the reconfiguration of social practices towards sustainability transformation. To answer these questions, we applied mixed‐method approach by investigating the example of SI initiative (the case of Vlkolínec UNESCO site in Slovakia). We conducted a focus group, semi‐structured and structured interviews, historical analysis and social network analysis with the actors involved in the SI. Based on the empirical results we revealed how mix of local and external knowledge and knowledge co‐production can enhance the development of SI through the networking of numerous local stakeholders, particularly science and policy representatives. This knowledge sharing and knowledge co‐production strengthened the development path of the SI in seeking to initiate effective measures for local people to return to traditional small‐scale farming, supporting traditional crafts, creating new green jobs and conditions for improving the quality of life for local people, and new services for sustainable tourism. Our results highlight the importance of external knowledge in the expansion of bonding social capital, and the establishment of a regional knowledge network of local and external actors to trigger SI in rural areas. The analyses reveal that multi‐actor networks that support knowledge exchange play an important role in SI development paths.

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“…Also, innovation processes in design thinking are viewed in a similar way (Plattner/Meinel/Weinberg 2009: 114; Ney/Meinel 2019: 10). On the other hand, space-related social innovation processes are often described as more of a linear process model, as has been shown for social innovation in spatial planning (Christmann/Ibert/Jessen et al 2020) or with regard to different social innovations in remote rural areas (Christmann 2020;Jungsberg/Copus/Herslund et al 2020;Kluvankova/Nijnik/Spacek et al 2021). In the context of our study on digitally supported social innovation in rural areas, we conclude that we have empirically observed a linear-circular process (see Figure 2).…”

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Rural Community Development Click-by-Click. Processes and dynamics of digitally supported social innovations in peripheral rural areas

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Christmann

2022

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Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, residents in peripheral and structurally weak rural areas began to move into the digital age. Digital tools are being used and developed to address existing challenges in rural areas such as local communication, healthcare or mobility. Against the background of a conceptual framework of social and digital innovations from a process perspective, this paper asks how the processes and dynamics of digitally supported social innovations in rural areas can be understood and described. By analysing five villages in Germany, we show that the digital initiatives – despite their different contexts, contents and driving actors – develop over three phases: an inspiration phase, an emergence phase and a consolidation phase. This dynamic process can be interpreted as “linear-circular”, because while overall a very targeted development of innovative problem solutions can be observed within the three-phase process, at the same time creative development loops and new inspirations exercise influence.

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“…not only to participate but also to co-develop and co-design activities or practices that lead to the chain's successful transformation. Actor engagement in SFSCs has been the center of attention in recent scholarly work and is perceived as a new and innovative model of collaboration across social and geographical spaces and beyond the community level (Jungsberg et al, 2020). For example, Neumeier (2017) suggests that the success of actor engagement in a network can be ".…”

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Towards understanding SFSC and the pillars of its conceptualisation: Building upon the Community of Practice approach

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Paschou

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) has drawn scholarly attention for its innovative features, such as the emergence of new associational forms, proximal relations and new quality conventions. A better understanding of SFSC is attained when looking at it as alternative food networks structured around organizational relationships. Aiming toward a comprehensive conceptualization of SFSC, this paper presents the findings of a transnational empirical investigation of different cases in a search of their central and most typical features. Building upon the Community of Practice (CoP) concept, SFSC are conceptualized as co-creative processes and as constructed realities with their traits being shaped by the interaction of participating multiple-actors. The sample of this study involves nine CoPs which are located in different parts of Europe and which were studied through open space discussions (World Café) with the participation of the various actors involved in the chain from production to consumption, services, research and policy areas. The identification of the most typical and ubiquitous attributes of SFSC as they appear across different contexts is based on an exploratory analysis which defines the main frames of SFSC and identifies on their basis the pillars of the conceptualization of SFSC. These pillars are sharing, authenticity and sustainability, the first one referring to the relational aspect, the second referring to the commercialization process and the third relating to the rationale or underlying logic of SFSC. The identified pillars signify their competitive advantage because SFSC develop as dynamic alternative networks to conventional, large-scale food systems. It is envisaged that the suggested conceptualization of SFSC would contribute to a better understanding of SFSC and foster future research in this field.

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Key actors in community-driven social innovation in rural areas in the Nordic countries

Cited by 52 publications

References 18 publications

The role of knowledge in supporting the revitalisation of traditional landscape governance through social innovation in Slovakia

The role of knowledge in supporting the revitalisation of traditional landscape governance through social innovation in Slovakia

Rural Community Development Click-by-Click. Processes and dynamics of digitally supported social innovations in peripheral rural areas

Towards understanding SFSC and the pillars of its conceptualisation: Building upon the Community of Practice approach

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