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Memory Work as Participatory Action Research. Introducing the Collaboration of Burundian, Congolese, Rwandan and German Researchers
The book Healing through Remembering in the Great Lakes region in Eastern Africa is the final result of a participatory action research-project...
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The “Community Action for Health”: The Project Life Cycle
This chapter offers an in-depth analysis of how the interaction between the aid-recipient state institutions, civil society organizations, and...
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Analysis and Conclusion: Comparative Regionalism, Political Crises, De Facto Overlapping, and Regional Cohesion
This chapter discusses the findings of the African and South American case analyses, addressing the challenges of comparative regionalism...
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Giving Meaning to Action and Research: Notes on the ‘One Health’ Approach from a Sociological Perspective
The One Health (OH) approach emphasizes the need to tackle the challenges of human, animal and ecosystem health using a more integrated approach....
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Introduction: Conjunctures and Crises
Cultural studies scholarship has recently considered the limitations to one of its core methodological approaches as it pertains to understanding...
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Is Sustainability Utopian? Complex Challenges and Concrete Action Principles
This paper explores why sustainability is so hard to achieve, although the concept has been discussed for several decades. Following the ‘Brundtland...
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Process institutionalism: toward an action-centric approach to state extraction
What is the relationship between actions and institutions in state extraction? State extraction is the process whereby revenue is extracted from...
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Affirmative Action and New Populism
Initiated by the British, India was one of the earliest laboratories of positive discrimination policies. Given the centuries-old caste-based...
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The Neoliberal Face of the ‘Local Turn’ in Governance of Refugees in Turkey: Participatory Action Research in Karacabey, Bursa
Based on the findings of participatory action research conducted in 2020 and 2021 in Karacabey, Bursa (Turkey), the article aims to offer a critical...
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The Fascinating World of Human Action: An Introduction
The varieties of human culture, governance, governing systems, social security systems, health care systems, legal systems, also with largely...
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Income Inequality and Financial Disturbances: Does Income Inequality Engender Financial Crises?
This paper is an empirical study that used econometric techniques to analyze the causal relationship between income inequality and financial...
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When societalization stalls: the semantics of code switching and the work of the soft legal realm
The dominant sociological view is that there are too many public crises. This article points to a different problem, namely the tendency for...
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Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa: A Background
Key among the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the commitment to combat the global impact of climate change. An increase...
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Local Climate Praxis in Practice: Community Climate Action in Belfast
Explores local climate praxis as transformative climate action with and in diverse communities across Belfast. Community climate action can tackle...
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Measuring Corruption Risk in Public Procurement over Emergency Periods
Times of crisis provide fertile ground for corruption because of looser regulatory frameworks, weaker oversight, and skyrocketing financing levels....
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A text mining and machine learning study on the trends of and dynamics between collective action and mental health in politically polarized online environments
Social media and online forums play an increasingly important role in the mobilization of collective action. This study examined how the discussion...
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Crises as a Focal Point for Socio-Economic Problems
The topic of basic income has gained popularity and media attention not only in Germany with the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, and has brought...
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Stored Water: Failing Dams and Other Storage Crises
Surface water stored in a lake or in a river behind a dam or contained in in concrete or steel tank, or frozen in mountain snowpack is an asset...
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Sociology in Greece After 2000: The Discipline in Face of Crises
The last chapter addresses recent institutional and thematic trajectories of sociology in Greece. From a collective euphoria stemming from Greece’s...
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Climate change and health in rural mountain environments: summary of a workshop on knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action
Climate change and its associated impacts on human health are serious and growing challenges. Yet, despite elevated health disparities, unique...
