The Evolution Of Action Research For Territorial Development
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The Evolution of Action Research for Territorial Development
Author: Patricia Canto-Farachala
language: en
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
Release Date: 2025-03-04
Edited by Patricia Canto-Farachala and Miren Estensoro García, this book is a third volume developing Action Reseach for Territorial Development (ARTD), a dynamic and participatory environment dedicated to fostering transformative research. Building on previous works, this volume brings together an intergenerational and multicultural group of contributors, reflecting ARTD’s growth into a more inclusive and diverse community. This growth and development of the environment is mirrored in its two parts. The first features reflections from experienced researchers, including theoretical advancements and practical frameworks for facilitating action research processes. The second part highlights contributions from a new generation of action researchers, initiated through the training processes at Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness. The book also features contributions by action researchers who have been working with ARTD in Praxis, Argentina but had not published their work in previous volumes.These emerging voices bring fresh perspectives to ARTD, addressing global contexts and exploring themes such as systemic facilitation in urban policy, the role of young facilitators in decision-making, the challenges of navigating cultural diversity in participatory processes, and the transformation of organizational structures in local governments. One of the central contents in the book is on the analysis of the action research environment itself. Through collaborative processes like Zubigintza—a monthly workshop space for knowledge sharing—the contributors refined their ideas, fostering dialogue and collective learning. The content is the result of a co-generative learning process, where experienced action researchers and the new generation of researchers worked together to integrate diverse perspectives and advance the ARTD environment. This volume celebrates the evolution of ARTD as a space for participatory, democratic, and transformative research. It serves as both a reflection on the environment’s progress and a vision for its future, emphasizing its limitless potential for continuous growth driven by inclusivity, collective ownership, and innovative, boundary-crossing collaboration. Hanne Finnestrand, PhD Associate Professor Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Editor-in-chief of Systemic Practice and Action Research
Territorial Development and Action Research
Territorial Development and Action Research examines the role of action research within fields such as territorial development and innovation. Most researchers analyse these fields from the outside, developing a theoretical understanding of what should be done, but not of how to do it. Based on their own experience of territorial development processes from the inside out, James Karlsen and Miren Larrea argue that filling the gap regarding social relations in the innovation process makes it possible for researchers to engage in the processes taking place in the territory, thereby revealing how to make things work. This book will help researchers face the pressure to engage and play a useful role in the development of their host regions. It will help policy makers to continuously learn and redefine policy approaches and bring about collaboration through networks, programs and projects where researchers and practitioners in regional, local and urban development work together to construct territorial development. Readers will acquire a better understanding of micro-territorial development processes and the roles played by individuals and coalitions in endogenous development processes.
Roots and Wings of Action Research for Territorial Development
Author: Miren Larrea
language: en
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
Release Date: 2024-11-25
No es solo el contenido académico lo que hace especial a este libro. Es la propia concepción de la investigación y su comunicación lo que le convierte en una obra que va mucho más allá de su especialidad: la investigación acción para el desarrollo territorial. Esta obra colectiva, coordinada por la investigadora Miren Larrea, hace una apuesta decidida por modificar los patrones clásicos de la comunicación científica en absoluta consonancia con la naturaleza de la investigación que proponen sus autores. El libro incorpora distintos tipos de textos para recoger un diálogo entre investigadores y agentes implicados y favorecer así una escucha mutua. Pero además recurre al multilingüismo para que los autores comuniquen mejor lo que quieren comunicar y a quienes deben comunicárselo. Ambas opciones —diversidad de textos y multilingüismo— conectan mundos que deben estar ligados: investigadores y actores en lo territorial, lo local y lo internacional, el idioma con la investigación apegada al territorio y lo teórico con lo aplicado. De este modo, los autores velan porque la investigación permee y llegue a su destino natural, pero también porque crezca gracias al intercambio de conocimientos y experiencias que propician. A través de las formas de comunicación elegidas, se pone de manifiesto la necesidad de que la investigación social suceda no solo en el ámbito de lo académico y no solo en inglés. Por eso tiene un valor singular, incluso para los no especialistas en este tema, que hay que agradecer a su editora, al conjunto de coautores y a la editorial. Elea Giménez Toledo Investigadora del CSIC