A Call to Action Research

Confronting the Social and Environmental Sustainability Crises

Davydd J. Greenwood, Johan E. Ravn, Koen P.R. Bartels (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2025
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-0826-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Davydd J. Greenwood, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology, Cornell University, USA, Johan E. Ravn, Chief Scientist, SINTEF Research Foundation and Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Nord University, Norway and Koen P.R. Bartels, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy and Centre for Urban Wellbeing, University of Birmingham, UK

Contents
Preface
Introduction: action research and a sustainable future – restoring the
social fabric and planetary ecology
PART I WHAT ACTION RESEARCH IS AND WHY DO IT NOW
1 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 CONFRONTS
SUSTAINABILITY CRISES
4 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 RESEARCH
8 Action research to confront crises
9 Action research and the transformation of educational
institutions towards sustainability and solidarity
10 Learning to do action research
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	11.12.2025
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-0353-0826-6 / 1035308266
ISBN-13	978-1-0353-0826-2 / 9781035308262
Zustand	Neuware