Featuring examples from the UK, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US, this book 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
Cuprins
Introduction
Part 1: Contemporary Crises – what they are
1. What is crisis? A complex realist perspective
2. Crisis in Scientific explanation: Beyond Dualisms
3. Time-Space flows through/of generations
4. The nature of complex social transformation
Part 2: Interwoven contemporary global crises
5. Climate crisis
6. Health / Care
7. Urban life including impact of pandemic disease
8. Fiscal crisis
9. How Inequality manifests in crises
Part 3: Governance, Civil Society, Research and Social action: Interwoven processes
10. Complexity congruent methods
11. Research for Action – Research as Transformative Governance
12. Interdisciplinary modes of socio-ecological research
Conclusion
Despre autor
David Byrne is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. His work explores the consequences of the post-industrial transition and the implications of the complexity frame of reference for understanding the social world.Cumpărați această carte electronică și primiți încă 1 GRATUIT!
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