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Zusatztext "While action research has a significant policy history! policy analysis has largely been tied to an "expert" and "consultant" model. Several developments have led the field to increasingly recognize the need for analyzing policies by engaging in a collaborative process to change them and their outcomes for the benefit of civil society. Because of this Bartels and Wittmayer's book is most welcome. It reinvigorates the necessary debate about how to develop and enact participatory! collaborative and sustainable policies in a world that has rapidly spiraled downward toward inequality and environmental catastrophe. Taking a deep dive into the methods and processes that enable participatory processes to work! they have provided an excellent overview of this field and the potential of action research to develop sustainable policies and re-stitch the social fabric that is being mercilessly torn apart for the benefit of the few." - Professor Davydd Greenwood! Cornell University! USA."Action research (AR) continues to perplex the average policy analyst - even those who seek to overcome the constraints of mainstream policy analysis. This book will answer most of their questions. The heart of the book consists of ten richly detailed descriptions that evoke the variety and creativity of action research. Each chapter is followed by a short reflection by the "co-inquirer" which helps us to understand how AR 'lands' in the experiential world of the practitioner. These are accounts are bookended by two highly useful chapters in which the editors describe and explain the essentials of AR in the context of the policy process and sustainability transition. This book represents an important innovation in policy analysis that should be included on the readings list of every practitioner and student in sustainability science and policy analysis." - Professor Hendrik Wagenaar! King's College London! UK! andThe University of Canberra! Australia. Informationen zum Autor Koen P.R. Bartels is Lecturer in Management Studies at Bangor University, UK, where he teaches courses in public administration and qualitative research. He has published in leading journals, including Urban Studies, Environment and Planning C , Public Administration , Public Administration Review , and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research , as well as a book Communicative Capacity (2015). Julia M. Wittmayer works at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. With a background in anthropology, she is interested in roles of and social relations and interactions between actors in sustainability transitions (governance). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 a...
