Reconstructive Social Innovation Cycles in Women-Led Initiatives in Rural Areas

摘要: Social innovations can tackle various challenges related to gender equity in rural areas, especially when such are initiated and developed by women themselves. We examine cases located areas of Canada, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Serbia, where marginalized roles, patriarchal values, male dominated economy policy, lack opportunities for education employment. Our objective is analyze five case studies on how women-led social innovation processes manifested at the levels everyday practice, institutions, cognitive frames. The analyses based interviews, workshops, literature screening, examined via qualitative abductive method. Results summarize that facing, explore initiatives as promising solutions, their implications studies. Based our results we propose a new concept: reconstructive cycle. It refers defined cyclical engage civil society initiatives. These reconstruct existing state affairs, questioning marginalizing discriminative practices, frames often perceived normal. concept helps with assessing have equity.