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Call For Papers – CARN Conference
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University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 13th to 15th November 2025
Digitalization, social justice and transforming societies: Taking education, health, social work and other practices forward
Global crises - ecological, social, and economic – are posing challenges to societies and, at the same time, digitalisation is transforming our lives by creating both opportunities and challenges. In this context, participative and reflective research is gaining in im- portance. In which ways can action research help address these challenges?
We invite contributions from the entire spectrum of action research in the contexts of education, social work, community development, the arts and others. Conceptual and theoretical positions, reflected experiences and research results are welcome. In ad- dition to papers and symposia, workshops including participation and creative approa- ches will be particularly appreciated.
Please submit through the submission portal.
Abstracts should include the title, authors and chosen format. The abstract may be up to 300 words.
Submission Deadline:
Abstract submission will be open from February 1st to May 30th, 2025
Community-Based Action Research Approaches, Environmental Conservation, Economic Development, and Ethical Tensions: Reflections on Work in Peru and India
No full textCommunity-based action research (CBAR) is designed to facilitate community members’ identification of challenges in their lives, as well as to collaboratively develop ways to confront those challenges. It is also designed to be an inherently ethical and justice-oriented paradigm for social change and inquiry. When working with community members in areas such as the Peruvian Andes and North India, the problems community members now identify inevitably include the effects of environmental degradation and climate change on the community, as well as challenges with economic opportunities. When engaging in collaborative action to address these challenges, tensions can arise regarding community land-usage and its economic implications. Inherently, there are ethical implications when tensions arise between different facets of community identified needs and the possible effects of solutions. In this paper, we reflect on two projects that have had ethical tensions and consider ways CBAR can transform tensions into constructive ways forward
Shared Waters, Shared Futures: Reflections on Climate and Indigenous Knowledge
No full textSpending time on the land and the water to connect and share with one another is central to the grounded lived experiences of many diverse Indigenous communities, yet these activities still tend to be optional or even excluded in traditional research. Grounded in conversation, which uplifts Indigenous oral traditional methods, this article reflects on the power of learning and sharing on the land and water, through arts-based and embodied methods. Using collective coding, the paper reflects specifically on activities led as part of a three-year project, ‘Carving out Climate Testimony’, wherein Inuvialuit youth, Coast Salish Indigenous communities and academics came together to explore the complex lived experiences of climate change. We highlight the pedagogical and personal transformations and benefits of land-based learning and the importance of Indigenous mobilities in fostering climate and cultural awareness and action.
Radical Incrementalism in Action Through Institutional Work: Case Studies of Embedded Research in South Africa
No full textSustainability researchers and non-academic actors are working more closely than ever to drive deep structural transformation toward just and sustainable futures. This paper illustrates how embedded researchers in South Africa navigate the political nature of institutional spaces through transdisciplinary action research. We propose radical incrementalism as a guiding philosophy and analyse seven cases using a collaborative autoethnographic approach. The analysis identifies four strategic choices: whether to embed, how to engage critically, when to maintain distance, and how to sustain long-term commitment. These insights illuminate the ethical and political complexities of shaping—or failing to influence—policy change within government institutions
Goldman, L. (2022). Climate change and youth: Turning grief and anxiety into activism. Routledge.
No full textAction Research Network of the Americas 2026 Hybrid Annual Conference – Sobral, Brazil
No full textInterested in joining us at our next conference? Each year ARNA welcomes diverse participants from throughout the Americas, including people involved with action research, participatory action research, and practitioner research. A variety of presentation and sharing formats as well as opportunities for networking and getting involved with global initiatives in action research are a highlight of ARNA conferences. Become a member today and be eligible for a discounted registration at our next conference! Take a look at some of the archived information from past conferences to see what you can be a part of!
Visit the website: https://arnawebsite.org/conferences
Call for Submissions for CJAR Special Issue focused on Language, Literacies, and Action Research
No full textTogether, the Canadian Journal of Action Research (CJAR) and the Canadian Association of Action Research in Education (CAARE) are inviting manuscripts for a special themed issue that will focus upon Language, Literacies, and Action Research.
The deadline to submit a proposal has been extended! Manuscript proposals are due by September 30, 2025. (Authors should send working title, short abstract, and bio to Managing Editor Marianne Barker at [email protected] for editorial approval.)
Full final manuscripts are due by December 31, 2025. Authors should indicate in their accompanying letter to the editor that they wish for their manuscript to be considered for publication in the Language, Literacies, and Action Research Special Issue. The anticipated publication date is Summer 2026.
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Towards Community-Directed Climate Adaptation Research (C-DAR)
No full textThe disconnection between humans and their surrounding ecologies, intensified since the industrial revolution and often described as the “metabolic rift,” has profoundly influenced dominant research practices as enterprises of knowledge production. As such, much research today, including climate change research, is disconnected from the land and the communities who depend on and steward it. This paper starts by briefly tracing a response to this disconnection, the emergence of community-engaged approaches to action research. Turning on the urgency of community adaptation under the climate emergency, we point to how this trajectory has seeded a paradigm shift to what we are referring to as community-directed research (C-DAR). Drawing on dialogues with three Indigenous community partners in Brazil—the Tremembé, Mundurukú, and Guaraní—we theorize how C-DAR could navigate four critical boundaries to bridge the rift between researchers and the land: The rift between western science and Indigenous and local knowledges; the rift between natural and social sciences; the rift between institutional (university) and community contexts; and the rift between the Global South and the Global North. We conclude with an observation that the acronym “C-DAR” is phonetically identical in Brazil to the Portuguese reflexive verb “se dar” which can mean “to give oneself to something.” In this spirit of “se dar,” we offer our paper as a call for experiments in reparative approaches to research, inviting scholars to reflect on their willingness to engage with this ethos
Not All Hope is Created Equal: Climate Action Research as a Source of Critical Hope
No full textClimate action research can be an emotionally and intellectually challenging space, given the magnitude of the climate crisis, the slow pace of progress, the existential weight of environmental degradation and isolation that results when researchers work and write alone. But action research for climate justice can also be an endeavour of hopefulness and vibrancy, wherein community connections and co-developed climate research data can forge meaningful changes for long term emotional and ecological sustainability. In this article, we examine the seven principles of critical hope (Redacted by Managing Editor, 2022) as a framework for identifying climate action research projects that exemplify critical hope. We draw on examples from both inside and outside the academy to explore how climate action research projects contribute to the communication and cultivation of critical climate hope
