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Abstract

This editorial introduces a special issue (SI) concerning quests for responsible digital agri-food innovation. We present our interpretations of the concepts of responsible innovation and digital agri-food innovation and show why they can and have been productively interrelated with social science theories and methods. First, each of the articles in this SI is briefly introduced and synthesised around three themes: (1) the need for a critique of digital ‘solutionism’ in current interdisciplinary research, development and innovation settings; (2) that social science contributes value via the ideas it brings to life to challenge dominant power dynamics and (3) that social scientific imagination and practice is a valuable long-term investment to both mitigate risk but also embrace socioenvironmental opportunities as we face ongoing sustainability crises into the future. Second, we identify future research considerations arising within the field, sitting at the intersection of social science and agricultural sociotechnical transitions. Our insights relate to challenges and opportunities to ‘do’ social science within the context of contemporary and nascent transitions such as increasing digitalisation. Researchers trained in social science theory and practice can make distinctive contributions to agri-food innovation processes by making social stakes visible and by advancing inclusive processes of research policy and technology design.

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Fielke, S and Bronson, K and Carolan, M and Eastwood, C and Higgins, V and Jakku, E and Klerkx, L and Nettle, R and Regan, A and Rose, DC and Townsend, LC and Wolf, SA
Keywords:	agri-food, digital governance, responsible research and innovation, social science
Journal or Publication Title:	Sociologia Ruralis
Publisher:	Blackwell Publ Ltd
ISSN:	0038-0199
DOI / ID Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12376
Copyright Information:	© 2022 European Society for Rural Sociology.
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Higgins, V
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