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Global Crises


Global Crises

Complexity Based Research and Practice for Social Transformation
1. First Edition

von: David Byrne, Gill Callaghan, Emma Uprichard

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Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 01.04.2025
ISBN/EAN: 9781447370857
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 304

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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
<p>Introduction</p>
<p> Part 1: Contemporary Crises - what they are</p>
<p> 1. What is crisis? A complex realist perspective</p>
<p> 2. Crisis in Scientific explanation: Beyond Dualisms</p>
<p> 3. Time-Space flows through/of generations </p>
<p> 4. The nature of complex social transformation</p>
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<p> Part 2: Interwoven contemporary global crises </p>
<p> 5. Climate crisis </p>
<p> 6. Health / Care </p>
<p> 7. Urban life including impact of pandemic disease </p>
<p> 8. Fiscal crisis</p>
<p> 9. How Inequality manifests in crises </p>
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<p> Part 3: Governance, Civil Society, Research and Social action: Interwoven processes </p>
<p> 10. Complexity congruent methods </p>
<p> 11. Research for Action - Research as Transformative Governance</p>
<p> 12. Interdisciplinary modes of socio-ecological research </p>
<p> Conclusion</p>
<p>David Byrne is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology and Fellow of the Durham Research Methods Centre at Durham University. </p>
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<p> Gill Callaghan is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at Durham University.</p>
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<p> Emma Uprichard is Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of Warwick and an applied social science methodologist.</p>
<p>• Uses the complexity framework to understand how research, as action, is crucial for effectively confronting interconnected global crises.</p>
<p> • Features illustrative examples from countries including the UK, China, Brazil, South Africa and the US.</p>
<p> • Identifies essential knowledge and methodologies for applied researchers, emphasizing the importance of participation and co-production in reframing research approaches</p>

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