First Person Action Research in Complex Social Systems: three stories of praxis

Wilson, Preston S.; Walsh, Elizabeth M.; Bush, Alan

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“…It includes critical and liberating dialogue, reflection and communication and is based on a trust in the group's ability to reason. 'Generative praxis', including 'generative dialogue' has been applied, e.g., in projects across the US and Mexico where dialogue has catalysed new ways of seeing, understanding and generating collective action at household and neighborhood-levels (Wilson et al, 2018). It integrates objective observations about a place and its ecological system with subjective knowledge of the local people and includes, for example, imagining positive futures.…”

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The role of agency in social tipping processes

Gaupp

Constantino

Pereira

2023

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Abstract. Positive social tipping processes – nonlinear, transformational change that improves long-term sustainability and well-being of people and planet – have recently witnessed growing interest in socio-ecological research. In addition to structural and systemic changes, shifts in prevailing social norms and worldviews are key for accelerated societal transformation. Enabling conditions include human agency – the capacity or ability to influence the outside world. Drawing on literature from different disciplines, we present an agency in social tipping framework that examines the notion of agency and its determinants, the relationship between individual and collective agency, and how collective agency can trigger social tipping points, potentially leading to large societal transformation. We use the framework and a case study of the shift to plant-based diets to illustrate the role of agency in positive social tipping processes. And finally, we identify and discuss a range of intervention points that might increase perceptions or feelings of both individual and collective agency, potentially overcoming the knowledge-action gap that is preventing large-scale societal action.

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The role of agency in social tipping processes

Gaupp

Constantino

Pereira

2023

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“…We believe that developing a sociomaterial perspective is vital for action researchers, particularly those who are values-oriented and attached, as material relations matter. We assume that paying attention to emergence and interdependence are crucial for creating change with integrity, which means that action researching requires systemic ways of thinking, acting and being (Burns 2007;Flood 2010;Marshall 2016;Wilson, Walsh, & Bush 2018). Consequently, sociomateriality can offer possibilities for action researchers to develop congruent ontologies which are defined by relationality and interconnectivity, because we cannot change the world without transforming and being transformed by matter.…”

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What could happen when action research meets ideas of sociomateriality?

Allen¹,

Marshall²

2019

IJAR

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Action research in its various forms highlights the interactional and relational ways in which research and knowledge become socially produced with people, with intentions of positively transforming realworld relations. In parallel, there is a growing interest in organisational research informed by the field of Science and Technology Studies, about the potential significance of matter to understanding how processes of researching interact with the world. By experimenting with connections to debates about sociomateriality, this paper explores what implications there might be for understanding and performing action research, especially given that action researchers are often values-oriented and attached, and acknowledge that they want to change material issues.

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White fragility as an obstacle to anti-racist resilience planning: Opportunities for equity-conscious partnerships

Walsh¹

2018

Journal of Urban Management

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First Person Action Research in Complex Social Systems: three stories of praxis

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What could happen when action research meets ideas of sociomateriality?

White fragility as an obstacle to anti-racist resilience planning: Opportunities for equity-conscious partnerships

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