Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorAdelle, Camilla
dc.contributor.authorGorgens, Tristan
dc.contributor.authorKroll, Florian
dc.contributor.authorLosch, Bruno
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-21T12:00:48Z
dc.date.available2021-09-21T12:00:48Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractCommunities of Practice are sites of social learning for the co-production of knowledge. Building on recent literature on Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice, this article reflects on the experiences of an emergent ‘Food Governance Community of Practice’ in South Africa that brings together multiple stakeholders to co-produce knowledge to inform local food policy and governance. Our results show the following lessons for managers and participants engaged in establishing similar ‘third spaces’ for knowledge co-production: 1) make inevitable power asymmetries explicit; 2) the identity of the group should not be built on a particular normative position but emerge from discursive processes and 3) create a balance between supporting peripheral learning and maintaining the specialist cutting edge discussions needed for co-production. Furthermore, the most beneficial legacy of a Community of Practice may not be the outputs in terms of the co-produced knowledge but the development of a cohesive group of stakeholders with a new shared way of knowingen_US
dc.identifier.citationAdelle, C. (2021). Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africa. Science and Public Policy., 48(2), 145–153. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa069en_US
dc.identifier.issn03023427
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scaa069
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/6723
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.subjectKnowledge productionen_US
dc.subjectScience-policy interfaceen_US
dc.subjectCommunity of practiceen_US
dc.subjectInterdisciplinaryen_US
dc.subjectFood governanceen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectFood policyen_US
dc.subjectGovernmenten_US
dc.subjectStakeholdersen_US
dc.titleCo-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice: Experiences from food governance in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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