Regional resilience: an agency perspective

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“…As previously mentioned, the importance of agency has been frequently sidestepped both in economic geography and in the SS thesis in spite of the fact that regions are not autonomous actors. For Bristow and Healy (2014), regions are highly complex entities that exist in a multi-dimensional and multi-scalar reality. They embody a wide range of actorsfirms, employees, entrepreneurs, universities etc.and it is these actors that drive the diversification process.…”

Agroecosystem resilience. A conceptual and methodological framework for evaluation

“…The complex analysis of diverse factors that constitute resilience, with an emphasis on AS and the capacity of collective agency, allows for an understanding of substantial aspects in need of transformation. This allows peasants to generate their own development dynamics based on their own interests and needs, favors processes of empowerment for implementing radical changes in the generation of public policy, access to resources and capital, and potential for autonomy (62–65). In this sense resilience refers to social change and challenges the status quo to give place to alternative scenarios (1,22,23,26).…”

Regional Economic and Social Resilience: An Exploratory In-Depth Study in the Nordic Countries

“…Criticism towards the depoliticising and ignoring of the role of human agency in resilience research has led to an increased focus on actors, conflicts and processes (see e.g. Martin & Sunley, 2015;Brassett et al, 2013;Bristow & Healy, 2014). Brassett et al (2013) suggest that future research questions on resilience focusing on actors and expert knowledge relevant to the performance of resilience policy and practice, should look at 'who benefits, and what and/or whom is excluded' (Brassett, 2013, p.225).…”

“…Studying agency in local communities places further attention on how social agents are organised in complex and interconnected networks, which in turn composes the regional social structures and economies (Bristow & Healy, 2014, p.928). In this light, Bristow and Healy (2014) recognise that strengthening resilience can be possible by public, social and commercial actors working together, and by utilising all available resources.…”

“…To study resilience, governance bodies and their roles can be of further interest, as they function as connectors between the different actors and as facilitators of communication between, for example, firms, labour force, consumers and interest groups (Bristow & Healy, 2014;Brooks et al, 2015).…”