Using the “Praxion” Methodology to Develop Social Infrastructure for Inclusive Sustainability Transformations in Remote Island and Coastal Communities

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10.2991/978-2-38476-545-4_20How to use a DOI?

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Praxion Methodology; Social Infrastructure; Inclusive; Sustainability; Remote Island; Coastal Communities

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the potential for an innovative methodology called “praxion” to develop social infrastructure for inclusive sustainability transformations in remote island and coastal communities. To the end, this paper first discusses the concept of infrastructure by way of its historical evolution, culminating in a fourfold typology of different types of infrastructure based on nature and function. This typology is complemented by the development of a sixfold questioning protocol for critical-creative analysis to guide community-infrastructure design. The typology and questions are used in a vignette of a real-world remote island community in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, that exemplifies the issues under consideration in the context of the Participation of Women in Renewable Energy (POWERE) project. POWERE is an integrated sustainability transformation project linking community-owned renewable energy (built infrastructure), seaweed mariculture (natural infrastructure), personal development (human infrastructure) and women’s selfhelp groups (social infrastructure). The praxion method is presented as a way of building social infrastructure that serves as an integrating, adaptive, open, and ongoing system of community-based creative-critical problem solving and collective transformation. In this way this paper presents an initial sketch of a participatory action research project to develop methods to deliver social infrastructure for inclusive sustainability transformations in remote island and coastal communities.

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AU  - Bradley Parrish
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DA  - 2026/03/13
TI  - Using the “Praxion” Methodology to Develop Social Infrastructure for Inclusive Sustainability Transformations in Remote Island and Coastal Communities
BT  - Proceedings of the World Conference on Governance and Social Sciences 2025 (WCGSS 2025)
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SN  - 2352-5398
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