Talk to the wiser animals!
“Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader, deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.” Rainer Maria Rilke I was talking with […]
Read More...What we carry shapes our action research: Editorial ARJ Issue 2, 2023 by Hilary Bradbury
In my work as editor in chief at Action Research journal (ARJ) I’ve gathered five papers for the second issue of 2023. Re-reading them, many months since after their initial acceptance, I’m struck by the behind-the-scenes insights they offer on today’s headline news. For example, Steve Kroeger (2019) writes from the ongoing unrest in Palestine, […]
Read More...Peter Reason extends co-operative inquiry beyond humans
Peter Reason introduces his just published ARJ paper Extending Co-operative Inquiry Beyond the Human. “In this paper I am taking seriously the notion that the world is alive; not just alive, the world is sentient and speaks to us, if only we will attend and listen. We can live on Earth as Gaia – that […]
Read More...Are we (possibly) white supremacists? Workshopping with Astrid Kunert.
Post by Andrea Rodericks, who facilitated the workshop as part of our designing regenerative spaces coLAB For our third session in the ARTist workshopping series we were led by powerful and personal reflections from Astrid Kunert who is co-founder and director of Qualitative Mind Research in Munich. Astrid shared her work with public participation, peace building […]
Read More...1.9! Higher impact factor calculated for ARJ
We just got the annual update on the citation index for Action Research (ARJ), the premier, peer reviewed international journal for action researchers, published by Sage. Happily it’s continuing to rise since we refreshed our mission to develop and publish papers on helping transformations happen in response to our rising eco-social crisis. Key to our […]
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