Rethinking the diffusion of grassroots innovations: An embedding framework
本文提出一个嵌入框架来理解草根创新如何影响可持续转型，通过分析全球南北生态村的案例，揭示了扩散的多种动态机制，对研究创新扩散和可持续发展的学者有参考价值。
This paper conceptualises the ways grassroots innovations (GIs) influence sustainability transitions. While research on GI diffusion tends to use the three-pathway model (replication, scaling up and translation), this paper rethinks GI diffusion through the lenses of an embedding framework. We illustrate this framework by applying it to the empirical case of ecovillages in the Global North and South. The results show that GIs become embedded in wider society through different dynamics: expansion, reframing, circulation of knowledge, shifting material arrangements and replication. The embedding framework brings clarity to diverse dynamics of diffusion and is particularly able to grasp the cultural, cognitive, economic and environmental impacts of GI initiatives.