Call to Action Research

Confronting the Social and Environmental Sustainability Crises

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvDavydd J. Greenwood,Johan E. Ravn,Koen P.R. Bartels

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This groundbreaking book issues an urgent call to confront the global social and ecological crises that are destabilizing societies everywhere. Business as usual in social science and governance is no longer sustainable. A Call to Action Research urges academic researchers, citizens, third sector workers, public officials, and businesspeople to join forces for global social justice and ecological sustainability.Expert action researchers Davydd J. Greenwood, Johan E. Ravn, and Koen P.R. Bartels demonstrate how action research and solidary social action can lead to a sustainable, just, and democratic future. They shed light on the scope and promise of action research, exposing how and why current higher education and political-economic systems are incapable of providing solutions to our global crises. Chapters provide an overview of how diverse approaches to action research can be used to confront ecological collapse, harmful capitalism, social inequalities and ill-equipped governance. The book uniquely covers a wide range of frameworks and methods necessary for the practice of action research, illuminated by many case studies from across the globe.This book offers a timely appeal and concrete guidance to tackle our collective crises. Scholars and students from across the social sciences will learn how to do action research in collaboration with diverse participants. It is also a valuable resource for policymakers and government, third sector, and business practitioners committed to sustainability, social justice, and democracy.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-05
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035308262

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ContentsPreface Introduction: action research and a sustainable future – restoring thesocial fabric and planetary ecology PART I WHAT ACTION RESEARCH IS AND WHY DO IT NOW1 The scope and promise of action research 2 Frameworks necessary to the practice of action research 3 The science of learning from liberating cases: action research,anti-essentialism, and adaptive learning organizations PART II HOW ACTION RESEARCH CONFRONTSSUSTAINABILITY CRISES4 Enabling just sustainability to avert ecological collapse 5 Domesticating harmful capitalism 6 Promoting solidarity to restore the social fabric 7 Embedding deliberative practice in governance PART III WHERE WE GO FROM HERE WITH ACTION RESEARCH8 Action research to confront crises 9 Action research and the transformation of educationalinstitutions towards sustainability and solidarity 10 Learning to do action research Bibliography

‘In this timely book the path-breaking Introduction to Action Research by Greenwood and Levin (1998, 2007), is revitalized in the context of the current devastating state of the planet, ridden by conflicts and crises in relations between people and to nature. The book calls for and conveys the possibility of turning social science out of its prevalent modern observatory and analytical stance and into a mechanism for improvement without losing its critical-analytical capacity. A Call to Action Research by Greenwood, Ravn and Bartels, articulates through multiple cases and concrete illustrations, the potential and promise of action research as a knowledge-oriented mode of engaging with the current problems of our world.’