Exploring resilience capacities with food innovators: a narrative approach

IF 4.6 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Global Sustainability Pub Date : 2020-09-09 DOI:10.1017/sus.2020.23
M. Lindow, Rika Preiser, R. Biggs
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Non-technical summary We interviewed grassroots food innovators in South Africa to explore the diverse ways in which their narratives expressed different capacities for resilience, such as dealing with surprise and shaping desirable change. We drew on key resilience themes of rootedness, resourcefulness and resistance (the 3Rs) as lenses through which to view their personal stories and efforts to build resilience and reshape the future. We used narrative and interpretative methods to connect the personal and context-specific experiences of food innovators to the 3Rs, exploring a new approach to uncovering resilience capacities. We suggest that this approach could be usefully employed to understand potential resilience capacities that could help address diverse sustainability challenges around the world. Technical summary As direct accounts of human experience, narratives offer a way of exploring the subjective and contextual dimensions of different capacities that influence resilience – the capacity to deal with surprise and unexpected change. In this study, we analysed the stories of food innovators in South Africa through combined narrative and interpretative methods, and we developed a novel approach to tease out some of the unique and particular aspects of resilience expressed in their stories. Using a combination of narrative enquiry and interpretative phenomenological analysis, we drew on the key resilience themes of rootedness, resourcefulness and resistance (the 3Rs) as lenses through which to view the personal reflections of food innovators and to identify important capacities that may contribute towards their efforts to build resilience and reshape the future. Amongst the diverse set of narratives, we found that resilience capacities were strongly influenced by an ethos of connectedness and care; attunement to co-creative processes; and experimenting with novelty and diverse narratives. We suggest that this narrative-based methodology could be usefully employed to surface latent rich and multidimensional resilience capacities in relation to various sustainability challenges in diverse contexts around the world. Social media summary A narrative approach to explore resilience capacities that can help reshape the future of South African food innovators.
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探索弹性能力与食品创新者:一个叙事的方法
我们采访了南非的基层食品创新者,以探索他们表达不同韧性能力的不同方式,例如处理意外和塑造理想的变化。我们借鉴了根植、机智和抵抗(3r)的关键韧性主题,通过这些主题来看待他们的个人故事和为建立韧性和重塑未来所做的努力。我们使用叙述和解释的方法,将食品创新者的个人和情境特定经验与3r联系起来,探索一种揭示弹性能力的新方法。我们建议,这种方法可以有效地用于了解潜在的恢复能力,从而帮助解决世界各地各种可持续性挑战。作为对人类经验的直接描述,叙事提供了一种探索影响复原力的不同能力的主观和背景维度的方式——处理意外和意外变化的能力。在这项研究中,我们通过叙述和解释相结合的方法分析了南非食品创新者的故事,并开发了一种新颖的方法来梳理出他们故事中表达的一些独特和特殊的韧性方面。结合叙事调查和解释性现象学分析,我们借鉴了关键的弹性主题,即扎根,机智和抵抗(3r)作为透镜,通过它来观察食品创新者的个人反思,并确定可能有助于他们努力建立弹性和重塑未来的重要能力。在不同的叙述中,我们发现恢复能力受到联系和关怀精神的强烈影响;协调共同创造过程;尝试新奇和多样化的叙事。我们建议,这种基于叙事的方法可以有效地用于揭示与世界各地不同背景下的各种可持续性挑战相关的潜在丰富和多维弹性能力。一种探索弹性能力的叙事方法,可以帮助重塑南非食品创新者的未来。
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Global Sustainability
Global Sustainability Environmental Science-Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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10.90
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19
审稿时长
17 weeks
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