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IJAR – International Journal of Action Research
2-2024: Free Contributions

Guest Editorial
Miren Larrea / Pablo Costamagna: Rethinking action research to face climate change: contributions from different traditions

Articles
Miren Larrea / Pablo Costamagna: Reformulating action research to facilitate territorial responses to climate change
Ainhoa Arrona: Transforming territorial governance to make it transformative: reflections from and for action research for territorial development
Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga / Andere Ormazabal Gastón / Izaro Gorostidi Bidaurrazaga: Democracy and agonism in the face of the climate crisis: in search of irruptive collaborative governance
Danilo R. Streck / Carolina Schenatto da Rosa: Action Research and socio-environmental justice: decolonizing perspectives for a global responsibility
Malida Mooken: Developing critical consciousness of epistemic (in)justice
Patricia Carolina Gayá: Integrating the personal, relational, and political: empowering climate action through decolonial feminist action research
Hilary Bradbury: Developmental Sensemaking for Transformative Action Taking: The Constructive Motion of Emotion
Davydd J. Greenwood: Solidarity and broadening the practices of action research

Book Review
Patricia Canto-Farachala: Bradbury, Hilary (2023). How to do action research for transformations at a time of eco-social crisis. Edward Elgar Publishing (paperback edition)

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Miren Larrea

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Pablo Costamagna

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Ainhoa Arrona

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Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga

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Andere Ormazabal Gastón

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Izaro Gorostidi Bidaurrazaga

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Danilo R. Streck

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Carolina Schenatto da Rosa

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Malida Mooken

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Patricia Carolina Gayá

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Hilary Bradbury

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Davydd J. Greenwood

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Patricia Canto-Farachala

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Keywords

action research, action-oriented psychology, climate change, climate justice, collaboration, coloniality of power, constructivist adult development, decolonial feminism, Decolonization, democracy, Emotion, emotions, epistemic justice, ethics of the fair measure, facilitation, feminism, gender equality, global inequality, global networking, Global South, governance, heterogenous action research approaches, humility, instituting and institutional spaces, interdependence, intersectionality, irruptive governance, Justice, knowledge, multilevel, Oktober 2024, patriarchy, planetary ecological collapse, racial capitalism, Social movements, socio-environmental justice, solidarity, sustainability, territorial development, transformative action, transformative change

Abstracts

Reformulating action research to facilitate territorial responses to climate change (Miren Larrea, Pablo Costamagna)
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue by presenting the results of a learning process shared by action researchers coming from different action research traditions and geographical areas. The goal of this learning process has been to generate explicit criteria and features that action researchers can integrate in their facilitative work in territorial development processes to make these development processes more effective in facing climate change. These criteria relate to the roots of climate change, justice, innovative ways to understand democracy and governance, the contribution of feminism to climate change and the role of emotions when facing it. These reflections and learnings are synthesized into twelve principles for action research for territorial development (ARTD). Key words: Action research, climate change, territorial development, justice, democracy, feminism, emotions
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Transforming territorial governance to make it transformative: reflections from and for action research for territorial development (Ainhoa Arrona)
The challenge of the climate emergency has highlighted the relevance of local transformative action for the development of new paths to sustainability, but also the relevance of the connection between the local and the global so that these paths have a real impact. Delving into this local-global connection is key for action research, and specifically, for Action research for territorial development (ARTD) and the Pedagogical approach (PA), two action research approaches that work from and for the territories, and which are the subject of analysis in this special issue. With the aim of contributing to deepening of this relationship, this article adapts the concept of transformative governance proposed by IPBES to build an actionable framework for reflection on the contribution of territorial development policies and research to transformative governance. It then analyses the IADT and the EP with this framework and suggests strengthening the critical dimension of facilitation so that these approaches are better adapted to the challenge of climate change. Key words: action research, transformative change, governance, multilevel, sustainability, facilitation
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Democracy and agonism in the face of the climate crisis: in search of irruptive collaborative governance (Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga, Andere Ormazabal Gastón, Izaro Gorostidi Bidaurrazaga)
The challenges of the new millennium make it essential to establish synergies between the instituting and institutional spaces that are trying to further democracy. From this standpoint, it is necessary to analyse the improvement of democracy made by the irruptive contributions of social movements. This article presents and exemplifies a new model of governance, that of irruptive governance, which aspires to enable protestors and institutional spaces to feed into each other in fuller democracy. Based on a specific example, it shows that environmental movements in the French Basque Country are managing to determine, oversee and improve municipal strategies aimed at mitigating the climate crisis. It concludes by suggesting that the collaboration of universities promoting participatory action research strategies can bring about synergies between irruptive and institutional actors, supporting the search for a choreography that allows agonism and democracy to work in harmony. Key words: Instituting and institutional spaces, democracy, irruptive governance, social Movements
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Action Research and socio-environmental justice: decolonizing perspectives for a global responsibility (Danilo R. Streck, Carolina Schenatto da Rosa)
The text explores the relationship between socio-environmental justice and action research, arguing that the global ecological crisis demands a reassessment of our practices and values. It proposes the idea of an “ethics of the fair measure” as a means to achieve balance between human needs and the planet’s limits. Through an analysis of various philosophical and cultural traditions, it discusses the challenges and implications of socio-environmental justice for the theory and practice of action research, emphasizing the dimensions of interdependence, mutuality, and co-responsibility. As a conclusion, it highlights the need to decolonize the concept of humanity and incorporate perspectives that consider nature as a living and participatory organism into research methodology. Key words: Socio-environmental justice, sustainability, action research, interdependence, decolonization, ethics of the fair measure
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Developing critical consciousness of epistemic (in)justice (Malida Mooken)
Societies and economies are, in part, structured and organised epistemically. However, who has the power to shape key territorial decisions and policies, and based on whose/which knowledges? Whose and which voices, practices, methods, problems, problem definitions and solutions matter in the process? Whose/which knowledge systems are legitimised or delegitimised? These are some of the questions that are raised in this paper on epistemic (in)justice. The discussion contributes to reflections on the development of action research pedagogies and methodologies, in particular on facilitating approaches and processes that are respectful and conducive to the central human capability of different people and groups to produce and receive knowledge. The genesis of the argument is rooted in a critical understanding of the on-going damages caused by epistemological hegemony and coloniality of power, and consciously working towards integrating perspectives of epistemic justice in our praxes. By stimulating the inclusion and participation of those who are marginalised, we contribute to countering dominant narratives and bringing forth nuanced perspectives of the lesser heard, and visible. With those in mind, I highlight the importance of epistemic governance, epistemic freedom, epistemic humility, and inter- and intra- territorial connectivity for enabling the co-creation of transformative relations, visions, spaces, dialogues, and actions in responding to climate change and the associated challenges. Key words: epistemic justice, coloniality of power, humility, governance, knowledge, climate change
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Integrating the personal, relational, and political: empowering climate action through decolonial feminist action research (Patricia Carolina Gayá)
This article centres decolonial feminist contributions to action research, which orient us to see how the oppressive conceptual frameworks that enable sexism, gender violence, and gender inequality are fundamentally intertwined with those that enable racism, (neo)colonialism, and the pillaging and destruction of nature and planetary systems: all of which come together in the climate emergency. Given that climate change is unarguably a “threat multiplier”, if action research is to help combat the climate crisis, it must mobilise intersectional feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial frameworks. Integrating decolonial feminism with action research offers long-overdue theoretical, methodological, and practical insights. I use the acronym DF-AR to refer to existing and emerging forms of action research underpinned by decolonial feminist principles, as well as aspirational imaginaries gesturing towards decolonial feminist futures. Drawing on empirical insights from DF-AR processes embedded within an undergraduate final-year course in the UK, I consider how the experimental and micropolitical practices associated with these imaginaries can strengthen our response to the climate emergency: that is, the strategies and qualitative differences they afford. Key words: Climate change, climate justice, decolonial feminism, intersectionality, gender equality, Global South, patriarchy, racial capitalism
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Developmental Sensemaking for Transformative Action Taking: The Constructive Motion of Emotion (Hilary Bradbury)
The article refreshes the concept of learning from experience, by emphasizing how experience is primarily anchored by emotion not rational thinking alone. It then inquires into the potential value of engaging emotions as a resource that gives vitality to action research. The proposition is that by including disappeared and denied emotions, perhaps especially at this moment when we confront planetary crisis, we may find greater perspective and imagination in co-creating response with stakeholders. Insights from two bodies of literature, action-oriented psychology and constructivist adult development are brought to flesh out the argument. A rich learning chronicle from a large scale, successful action research at the Port of Los Angeles is used to illustrate. The relevance of this chapter for action researchers engaged in territorial development lies in the provocation that more action researchers enrich capacity for helping transformations happen by leveraging the motion of emotions at this time of ecosocial crisis. Key words: transformative action, emotion, action-oriented psychology, constructivist adult Development
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Solidarity and broadening the practices of action research (Davydd J. Greenwood)
We live in a world of runaway global social inequality and immanent planetary ecological collapse and action research is more necessary than ever. Solidarity across countries, regions, classes, and ecosystems is the only way out of these linked crises caused by neoliberal capitalism. Action research is a vibrant and heterogeneous set of democratic practices capable of addressing many of these dilemmas. Action researchers have for generations largely been content to develop their own approaches independently and the attempts to create better integrated global action research networks have yet to show the needed success. This essay argues that the lack of collaboration and solidarity across the whole spectrum of action research is an unaffordable luxury. Living up to our own ethical and political commitments, we need to find ways to treat the diversity among our own practices and political visions as sources of strength and dynamism. Beyond this, together we need to make a concerted effort to link with other groups and networks promoting fairness, democracy, sustainability and solidarity because the future without these collaborations is unsustainable. Key words: global inequality, planetary ecological collapse, heterogenous action research approaches, collaboration, solidarity, global networking
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