Affects: Sensing things

Burström, Mats

doi:10.4324/9780429200014-8

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“…But none of the 'new' (MLP), the 'now' (SPT) or the 'haphazard' (postmodernism) has a clear focus on the role that history or heritage has on spawning social innovation: the area described by Pantzar and Shove (2010) as 'ex-practice' and by Shove (2010) as 'forgotten' practices. Such a focus is commonly dismissed as mere nostalgia -itself, long the object of systematic criticism for its association with reactionary ideologies and misrepresentations of history (Burstrom, 2021). González-Ruibal (2021) asserts that nostalgia is commonly viewed as the opposite of progress, and therefore, sentimental and melancholic: a yearning for the unattainable.…”

Section: Theories Of Innovationmentioning

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Community food projects, social innovation, and the past

Curry¹

2023

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Community food projects (CFPs) have diverse purposes relating to correcting market failures, community cohesion and not-for-profit operation. These are well served by social innovations relative to technical and/or economic ones. Whilst innovation is invariably associated with 'new' ideas, innovation theory accommodates learning from the past, acknowledging its relative neglect. This paper explores the extent to which the purposes and innovative actions of CFPs are informed by past practice. The significance of a 'return' in food is assessed, where policies for regenerative agriculture, relocalisation and food resilience all draw on 'the way we used to do things'. The flexibility of social innovation, too, has meant recourse to past practice in emergency responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirical evidence from three research projects which benchmark historical food practice against contemporary actions of CFPs, identifies both explicit reference to historical practice to inform current behaviour, as well as the mimicking of past practice. Close examination of historical food innovations to inform current practice allows choices to be made in adopting or adapting such innovations or identifying what to avoid.

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Section: Theories Of Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community food projects, social innovation, and the past

Curry¹

2023

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Affects: Sensing things

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Community food projects, social innovation, and the past

Community food projects, social innovation, and the past

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