Global Crises

Complexity Based Research and Practice for Social Transformation

David Byrne, Gill Callaghan, Emma Uprichard (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2025
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7083-3 (ISBN)

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In today’s world, there are interwoven crises affecting us at every level. This book explores the impact of these crises on applied social research. It shows how using a complexity framework in research is key to tackling global challenges effectively.

By featuring illustrative examples from the UK, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US, the authors demonstrate how an action research programme based around the use of existing social research methods embedded in processes of co-production and participation can drive real-time social change.

In doing so, the book highlights the transformative role of action-oriented research in addressing today's complex global challenges.

David Byrne is a retired Professor of Sociology and Applied Social Sciences from the University of Durham and a long time practitioner of action research. Gill Callaghan is a retired Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at Durham University, teaching Social Theory, Evaluation and Research Methods. Emma Uprichard is Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of Warwick and an applied social science methodologist.

Introduction

Part 1:

1. Crisis and Change in the Era of the Capitalocene

2. Beyond Dualisms

3. Time, Place and Crisis

Part 2:

4. Climate Crisis

5. Crisis in Health and Care

6. Fiscal Crisis

7. Inequality Crisis

8. Urban Crisis

Part 3:

9. Transgressing Disciplines in Socio-Ecological Research

10. Complexity-Congruent Research: Methods and Methodology

11. Research for Action: Research as Transformative Governance

Conclusion: Scenarios for Possible Futures

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-4473-7083-X / 144737083X
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-7083-3 / 9781447370833
Zustand	Neuware