What is Transactionality

Co-production in the public sector can contribute to enhancing sustainability, social equity and democracy in society. Nevertheless, the citizens in greatest need of enhanced social equity and increased democratic participation are often considered less capable of taking part in co-production projects. Embedded in an understanding of co-production-as-practice, this chapter shifts the attention from focusing on the abilities of the individual to focusing on the social processes of becoming. This processual understanding provides possibilities for coming to grips with how highly marginalised citizens both influence and are influenced by the ability of public staff to realise better solutions within public services. The chapter contributes to widening the processual understandings of co-production by seeing resources, capabilities and empowerment as dynamic elements emerging in the present through social processes. Consequently, it illustrates how social equity and inclusiveness can be produced through the co-constitutive processes of becoming.