Neo-endogenous development and social innovation in rural marginal areasThe cases of Castel del Giudice (Italy) and Altiplanicies of Granada (Spain)

  1. Angelo Belliggiano 1
  2. Marilena Labianca 2
  3. Stefano de Rubertis 2
  4. Angelo Salento 2
  5. Francisco Navarro Valverde 3
  6. Eugenio Cejudo García 3
  1. 1 University of Molise
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    University of Molise

    Campobasso, Italia

    ROR https://ror.org/04z08z627

  2. 2 University of Salento
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    University of Salento

    Lecce, Italia

    ROR https://ror.org/03fc1k060

  3. 3 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Libro:
Nuevas realidades rurales en tiempos de crisis: territorios, actores, procesos y políticas : XIX Coloquio de Geografía Rural de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles y II Coloquio Internacional de Geografía Rural
  1. Eugenia Cejudo García (coord.)
  2. Francisco Antonio Navarro Valverde (coord.)
  3. José Antonio Camacho Ballesta (coord.)

Editorial: Universidad de Granada

ISBN: 978-84-338-6338-6

Año de publicación: 2018

Páginas: 628-640

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

Resumen

In recent years, a significant debate has been focused on approaches to neo-endogenous development in rural areas. In rural development practices it is very unlikely to find genuinely and exclusively endogenous policies, therefore it could be profitable to overcome the reductionist distinction between exogenous and endogenous, exploring the outcomes of a hybridization of the two approaches, as proposed by the so-called neo-endogenous development. The latter implies to be realized through a significant participation of the community. This is a process that, according to the literature, would be organized around the «social innovation». Using interviews with privileged actors, social innovation in its dynamics, actors and processes will be explored in two significant cases, of Italy (Castel del Giudice) and Spain (Huéscar). These are marginal municipalities with serious economic and social problems that have managed to implement interesting paths thanks to the presence of local territorial capital and extra-local factors. The two case studies have been analyzed using a strictly qualitative method: a set of priviledged actors were in-depth interviewed, and interviews were subject to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.