Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas
Global trends such as international migration and large-scale agriculture are having an impact on the economy and society of Italy’s mountain territories. Socio-economic challenges call for new solutions that existing public institutions and private local organizations fail to address properly. Soci...
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| author | Elisa Ravazzoli Cristina Dalla Torre Thomas Streifeneder |
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| description | Global trends such as international migration and large-scale agriculture are having an impact on the economy and society of Italy’s mountain territories. Socio-economic challenges call for new solutions that existing public institutions and private local organizations fail to address properly. Social innovation (SI) has become a relevant paradigm to address social challenges. By reconfiguring existing social practices, it introduces new solutions (e.g. services, practices, cooperation models) to better respond to social needs, improving the wellbeing of mountain areas. In the paper, two initiatives were selected that target empowerment of vulnerable groups (refugees and women farmers). Using the agency-structure framework, an explorative study of these initiatives has been conducted to analyse the process of reconfiguring social practices, the outcomes, and the factors that may enable and hinder the initiatives. The results show that social innovation has transformed the meaning of cultural symbols and the socio-economic roles of the target groups, leading to an improvement of the whole community’s wellbeing. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3143592cad9342c48f3485ab30ef22582025-01-10T15:54:13ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-74262019-09-01107210.4000/rga.5988Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain AreasElisa RavazzoliCristina Dalla TorreThomas StreifenederGlobal trends such as international migration and large-scale agriculture are having an impact on the economy and society of Italy’s mountain territories. Socio-economic challenges call for new solutions that existing public institutions and private local organizations fail to address properly. Social innovation (SI) has become a relevant paradigm to address social challenges. By reconfiguring existing social practices, it introduces new solutions (e.g. services, practices, cooperation models) to better respond to social needs, improving the wellbeing of mountain areas. In the paper, two initiatives were selected that target empowerment of vulnerable groups (refugees and women farmers). Using the agency-structure framework, an explorative study of these initiatives has been conducted to analyse the process of reconfiguring social practices, the outcomes, and the factors that may enable and hinder the initiatives. The results show that social innovation has transformed the meaning of cultural symbols and the socio-economic roles of the target groups, leading to an improvement of the whole community’s wellbeing.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/5988local developmentsocial Innovationrefugee integrationwomen’s empowermentitalian Alps |
| spellingShingle | Elisa Ravazzoli Cristina Dalla Torre Thomas Streifeneder Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas Revue de Géographie Alpine local development social Innovation refugee integration women’s empowerment italian Alps |
| title | Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas |
| title_full | Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas |
| title_fullStr | Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas |
| title_short | Transforming the Role of Women Farmers and of Refugees: Two Italian Experiences of Social Innovation in Mountain Areas |
| title_sort | transforming the role of women farmers and of refugees two italian experiences of social innovation in mountain areas |
| topic | local development social Innovation refugee integration women’s empowerment italian Alps |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/5988 |
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