Hidden in Plain Sight: A Peacebuilder’s Story
This story serves as a reminder that no matter how grand our endeavors—working to transform places stuck in conflict—we accomplish what we do through how we engage in the ordinary business of our work. I propose that the key to our effectiveness may be hidden in plain sight when we learn to focus our attention in purposeful ways.
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Bridging the territory between me, we, and living E(arth)! What we love about six explorations into AR for sustainability
Bridging the territory between me, we, and living E(arth)!What we love about six explorations into AR for sustainability The three of us – Marina Apgar, Alfredo Ortiz Aragón & Paul Gray, associate editors, Action Research Journal (ARJ) – were recently given an opportunity to work together to deepen our understanding and share more broadly how […]
Read More...You defend what you feel: ‘Presencing’ nature as ‘experiential knowing’
Click to watch Hilary Bradbury interview Gioel Gioacchino about her work. Newly minted PhD., Gioel Gioacchino, writes about a youth-led action research process carried out in Cuba. Their action research supported a network of youth to champion sustainability in a country that is simultaneously more “sustainable” in an ecological sense than most countries, but with […]
Read More...T-Labs and climate change narratives: Co-researcher qualities in transgressive action-research
Blog post by Thomas Macintyre In my birth home of New Zealand, the symbol of the Koru—the spiral—is a powerful metaphor for transformation. On the one hand, the Koru represents creation with the unfurling fern representing movement and expansion. On the other hand, the inner coil of the Koru, with its rolled inner leaflets, suggests […]
Read More...Reshaping Our World: Collaborating with Children for Community-based Climate Change Action
In a sense, children have the most to lose from an unsustainable planet. Yet, because of the passive role that society usually assigns to them, children often have the least control over their environmental future. Carlie Trott addressed this lack of environmental empowerment among the young through ART research with her PAR collaboration with 10-12 […]
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