Action Research in Policy Analysis: Critical and Relational Approaches to Sustainability Transitions

ISBN-13: 9781138553828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 266 str.

Koen P. R. Bartels; Julia M. Wittmayer

Opis

This book explores how action research forms a valuable methodology for producing collaborative knowledge and action. It outlines the recent uptake of action research in policy analysis and transition research and develops a distinct and novel approach that is both critical and relational.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Action Research in Policy Analysis and Transition Research [Koen P.R. Bartels and Julia M. Wittmayer]  Part I: Sustainability Crises and Actionable Knowledge and Research  2. Both Critical and Applied? Action Research and Transformative Change in the UK Water Sector [Emma Westling and Liz Sharp]  Co-inquirer reflection by Chris Digman  3. Cooperative Research for Bottom-up Food Sovereignty and Policy Change [Bálint Balázs and György Pataki]  Co-inquirer reflection by Csilla Kiss and Borbála Sarbu-Simonyi   4. Transition Scientivism: On Activist Gardening and Co-producing Transition Knowledge ‘From Below’ [Shivant Jhagroe]  Co-inquirer reflection by Rutger Henneman  Part II: Critical-Relational Heuristics for Action Research  5. Cultivating ‘Sanction and Sanctuary’ in Scottish Collaborative Governance: Doing Relational Work to Support Communicative Spaces [James Henderson and Claire Bynner]  Co-inquirer reflection by Alison McPherson   6. Negotiating Space for Mild Interventions: Action Research on the Brink between Social Movements and Government Policy in Flanders [Erik Paredis and Thomas Block]  Co-inquirer reflection by Dirk Barrez   7. Soft Resistance: Balancing Relationality and Criticality to Institutionalise Action Research for Territorial Development [Ainhoa Arrona and Miren Larrea]  Co-inquirer reflection by Ander Arzelus  Part III: Approaches to Critical-Relational Action Research  8. Lipstick on a Pig? Appreciative Inquiry in a Context of Austerity [Alison Gardner]  Co-inquirer reflection by Liz Jones  9. Getting Unstuck: The Reconstruction Clinic as Pragmatic Intervention in Controversial Policy Disputes [Martien Kuitenbrouwer]  Co-inquirer reflection by Karima Arichi  10. Exploring the Use of Audiovisual Media for Deliberation: Reframing Discourses on Vulnerabilities to Climate Change in Nepal [Floriane Clement]  Co-inquirer reflection by Damakant Jayshi   11. Really Imagined: Policy Novels as a Mode of Action Research [Sonja van der Arend]  Co-inquirer reflection by Martine de Vaan  12. Conclusion: Critical and Relational Action Research for Policy Change and Sustainability Transitions [Koen P.R. Bartels and Julia M. Wittmayer]