What Future for LEADER as a Catalyst of Social Innovation?

Secco, Laura; Pisani, Elena; Burlando, Catie; Christoforou, Asimina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54277-5_19

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“…2016; Secco et al . 2017a). SI requires ‘animation’ in order to activate community entrepreneurs (McElwee et al .…”

Section: Social Innovation In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…LEADER 2 can also be a source of SI due to its bottom-up approach, involving coordination and networking of different local actors through Local Action Figure 1: Analytical framework for narratives of SI. Source: own elaboration based on Secco et al (2017b) and Wittmayer et al (2019) Groups (LAGs), and its recognised potential for enhancing and restoring social capital (Dargan and Shucksmith 2008;Bosworth et al 2016b;Dax et al 2016;Secco et al 2017a). SI requires 'animation' in order to activate community entrepreneurs (McElwee et al 2018) and the public sector could exercise this role by arranging alternative forms of collaborative public-sector led community initiatives (Franklin et al 2017).…”

Section: Social Innovation In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Whose Narrative is it Anyway? Narratives of Social Innovation in Rural Areas – A Comparative Analysis of Community‐Led Initiatives in Scotland and Spain

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Social innovation is a process in which local communities build social and cultural capital to address challenges and social needs. The diffusion of social innovation requires compelling narratives that encourage people to join them. Using qualitative techniques and a multiple case study methodology, this article examines the content of narratives of social innovation in rural areas and how actors construct, spread and change them. We propose a narrative analytical framework comprising four key components: problematisation; solutions and goals; actors; and plot, which we apply to three initiatives in Scotland and Spain. Our findings suggest that marginalisation, the natural environment and community activation are central themes in the content of narratives. In addition, we explain how policies and public actors can support social innovation as well as how collective leadership of social innovations can reduce imbalances in power relations, and contribute to a consistent evolution of narratives over time, enhancing the sustainability of social innovation projects overall.

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“…2016; Secco et al . 2017a). SI requires ‘animation’ in order to activate community entrepreneurs (McElwee et al .…”

Section: Social Innovation In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Innovation In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Whose Narrative is it Anyway? Narratives of Social Innovation in Rural Areas – A Comparative Analysis of Community‐Led Initiatives in Scotland and Spain

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“…Socially innovative initiatives are triggered by factors that may originate from several territorial scales and trigger a response from stakeholders in a given territory to certain problems or collective ambitions [37]. Conflicts are acknowledged as possible triggering factors [38], but can also be the direct consequence of innovations [39,40].…”

Section: Social Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Conflicts and Social Innovation on the Balearic Islands (Spain)

Savall

2022

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New environmental conflicts arise all the time as a consequence of the industrial economy and economic growth. The search for new energy and new materials jeopardizes the margin to promote sustainable development in many local communities. In this paper, we examine a conflict related to hydrocarbons projects in the Balearic Sea (Spain) from the social innovation perspective. This novel approach allows us to focus on how socially innovative responses can be triggered by environmental threats. A set of mixed methods (qualitative analysis and social network analysis) are implemented to study the emergence and development of Alianza Mar Blava in Ibiza–Formentera. This is an initiative that successfully activates new social relations and new collective practices that contribute to transform the environmental conflict. In this study, we highlight the strategic factors that allow the conflict to be transformed as well as other social processes that ultimately promote local sustainable development beyond the conflict.

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“…Esto estaría vinculado a la definición del propio método LEADER, es decir, al enfoque abajo-arriba y cros-sectorial, y al interés por fomentar la cooperación y los partenariados público-privados. Todo ello, en mayor o menos medida, sería la base para la generación de nuevas relaciones sociales en el territorio (Pollerman et al, 2013;Secco et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2022). No obstante, otros estudios señalan algunas limitaciones en el papel de los Grupos de Acción Local en la innovación social (Vercher, 2022c), las cuales podrían estar relacionadas con la evolución del propio programa y el exceso de burocratización, la aversión al riesgo, dinámicas clientelares o la falta de reconocimiento desde algunas instituciones regionales Dax et al, 2016;Navarro et al, 2016).…”

Section: Innovación Social Y Desarrollo Ruralunclassified

Estrategias de innovación social en el desarrollo de las áreas rurales. Estudio de casos en cooperativas agrarias de Formentera (Islas Baleares) y el Solsonés (Cataluña) / / / \ \ \ Social innovation strategies for the development of rural areas. Case studies in agricultural cooperatives of Formentera (Balearic Islands) and Solsonés (Catalonia)

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Lizán²

2022

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Resumen: Las áreas rurales constituyen uno de los sujetos más destacados de las políticas de desarrollo con enfoque territorial. Durante los últimos años, la innovación social se ha introducido de forma explícita en este enfoque y también en las agendas públicas ruralistas. A través de la innovación social se reconoce la importancia de promover nuevas relaciones sociales y su contribución en los procesos de desarrollo rural. Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar procesos de innovación social en áreas rurales y detectar los elementos más destacados que explican la contribución de la innovación social al desarrollo territorial sostenible de las áreas rurales. Para ello se emplea una metodología mixta y se seleccionan dos casos de estudio vinculados a cooperativas agrarias localizadas en Cataluña e Islas Baleares. Los resultados señalan el contexto de la innovación, sus orígenes y los principales elementos socialmente innovadores que contribuyen al desarrollo local de las respectivas áreas rurales. La configuración de redes heterogéneas y nuevas formas de acción colectiva en torno a entidades de la Economía Social son algunos de los elementos de innovación social más destacados en este trabajo. Palabras clave: desarrollo rural; gobernanza; capital social; relaciones sociales; Economía Social; LEADER; políticas públicas. Abstract: Rural areas are one of the most prominent subjects of development policies with a territorial approach. In recent years, social innovation has been explicitly introduced in this approach and also in ruralist public agendas. Through social innovation, the importance of promoting new social relations and their contribution to rural development processes is recognised. This article aims to identify social innovation processes in rural areas and to detect the most strategic elements that explain its to the sustainable territorial development of rural areas. To this end, a mixed methodology is used and two case studies linked to agricultural cooperatives located in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands are selected. The results point out the context of innovation, its origins, and the main socially innovative elements that contribute to the local development of the respective rural areas. The configuration of heterogeneous networks and new forms of collective action concerning Social Economy entities are some of the most outstanding elements of social innovation illustrated by this work. Key words: rural development; governance; social capital; social relations; Social Economy; LEADER; public policies.

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What Future for LEADER as a Catalyst of Social Innovation?

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Whose Narrative is it Anyway? Narratives of Social Innovation in Rural Areas – A Comparative Analysis of Community‐Led Initiatives in Scotland and Spain

Whose Narrative is it Anyway? Narratives of Social Innovation in Rural Areas – A Comparative Analysis of Community‐Led Initiatives in Scotland and Spain

Environmental Conflicts and Social Innovation on the Balearic Islands (Spain)

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