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Resistant voices help us imagine alternatives. Reflecting with Timothy Pyrch
Timothy Pyrch is professor emeritus of the University of Calgary, Canada. He helped organize action researchers from around the world at the first academic congress in 1989. His work preserves indigenous ways of knowing the world, emphasizing story-telling. Timothy explains that in this time of social-ecological transition, we need insights that can disrupt the dominant […]
Read More...Action Research for Territorial Development: A Collective Experiment
Dr. Miren Larrea and colleagues at Orkestra, are editing a book. Your collegial input and co-production is invited. Miren and colleagues at Orkestra work with colleagues across three regions of the world: the Basque Country (Spain), Agder (Norway) and Rafaela and Tierra de Fuego (Argentina). Orkestra is part of the AR+ stewarding community. Their work, […]
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Navigating the Darkness with an Inner Compass
Arsonists burned down the Highlander Center in Tennessee, USA.  It’s not the first time. They left a symbol of white supremacy in the ashes. We live now in a rising tide of uncivil society, rising nationalism and anti-minority/immigrant sentiment worldwide. How do we bring light to the darkness? Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks emphasized the importance […]
Read More...Transformation can’t just be about individuals!
The co-design team reflects on our AR+T Gathering and its “lagom” Transformations. We gathered over Women’s day, March 7-10 at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. We set the intention to collaborate within, across and beyond our individual communities. Together we numbered 60 participants from 25 countries, ages 15-80. 40 met face to face, the others […]
Read More...What is Good Action Research: Quality Choicepoints With a Refreshed Urgency for ARJ
As a stakeholder to AR+ you are hopefully familiar with our journal – Action Research. Much of our blog is devoted to making journal articles available. If you’re an author, reviewer, reader of the AR+ blog, or any/all of those categories, you may be aware that our purpose since inception with ARJ, an international, peer-reviewed […]
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