Enacting rural community resilience: An agency theoretical perspective on an emerging local food community
• A relational agency framework can be used to analyse rural community resilience. • Authorisation of (co-)agency in community contexts requires negotiation over legitimate principals. • Co-agency is conducive to rural community resilience. • Understanding the relational dimensions of agency is key for rural community resilience.
Authors
- Milla Suomalainen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5837-537X)
- Jarkko Pyysiäinen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4102-7547)
- Heini Salonen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5155-7718)
Institutions
- University of Helsinki (FI)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Published
- 2026-04-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2026.104197
- Primary Topic
- Rural development and sustainability
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Helsingin Yliopisto
- Academy of Finland