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Action research in policy analysis: critical and relational approaches to sustainability transitions

Action research is rapidly taking hold in policy analysis. It offers a valuable methodology for co-producing knowledge and action in the face of today’s pressing societal, political, economic and environmental crises. This book explicates the ambitions, challenges, and practices involved with fostering policy changes and sustainability transitions. Each of the chapters shares action research experiences, heuristics and approaches in a variety of policy settings and is accompanied by a ‘co-inquirer reflection’. A key contribution of the book is its distinct and novel framework for engaging in the critical-relational dynamics of action research. This framework facilitates action researchers and their co-inquirers in reflecting on how they (could) negotiate the starting point of their collaboration, enact multiple roles and relationships, challenge and reproduce hegemonic structures, cultures and practices, and evaluate reflexivity, impact, and change. In this way, the book aims to encourage and guide future action research in policy analysis.