ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the context, method and practice of analysing actor interfaces in adaptive innovation and embedding it with reflective practice. It illustrates how the actor interface analysis can be looked up on as a suitable analytical frame to reflect upon crucial social encounters, and on our own understanding and practice. Each social encounter that shapes adaptive innovation could involve diverse social actors with differing interests, knowledge, resources and power. It also corresponds to the differentiated meanings and strategies that diverse actors evolve during the process. It is equally important to reflect upon insider–outsider relationships, our own positionality, perceptions, resources and investments that shape adaptive innovation. Insights from this chapter could also contribute to theory building in the context of climate change adaptation and social work practice.
