- Research approach summary: for an overview of my stance as a researcher and my use of AR
- Chapter 1, Section 2: for an introduction to my research approach
- Chapter 3, Section 2: for more details about AR and how I used this approach in my research
Key words
This section displays a selection of content from this website - including chapters from the thesis, as well as thesis summaries - relative to some of the main "red threads" that run through this research project. Feel free to use this list as a rough guidemap to specific themes you feel keen to explore!
For an alternative set of entry points into the website, see also the "Who are you?" section.
Action Research (AR)
Conflict
- FairCoop summary: on how conflict played an important role in the failure of FairCoop as a community. See also Chapter 4, Section 2.3, for more details.
- D&D summary: for an analysis of the role of conflict as part of social learning within the D&D Circle. See also Annex 5.3, Section 3 (in particular the four integrative themes) for more details.
- Radical Collective Change summary: on the importance of conflict transformation to create the potential for radical collective change. See also Chapter 6, Section 2.2, for more details.
Deep Adaptation & collapse
- Chapter 1, Section 1: for the global context of socio-ecological crises and collapse in which my research takes place
- Chapter 5, Section 1: for an introduction to Deep Adaptation and the Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF)
- DAF landscape summary: for an overview of the purpose and focus of DAF as a community.
- Annex 5.4: for a discussion of participant aspirations within DAF, and the framing of DAF spaces (how should people respond to socio-ecological crises?)
- Chapter 6, Section 2: for my assessment of whether radical collective change happened thanks to DAF. See also Conlusion, Section 1.
Decolonial change & unlearning
- Radical Collective Change summary: for some reflections on how the process of unlearning may have to do with radical collective change. See also Chapter 6 for more details on this process.
- Decolonising DAF summary: for ideas on how decolonial forms of change may be put into practice within an online community
- Chapter 2, Section 2: literature review on unlearning and decolonial studies
- Chapter 6, Section 3: reviewing common critiques of decolonial approaches
- D&D Circle summary: an overview of the D&D Circle case study, involving a group of people engaging in conscious forms of unlearning. See also Annex 5.3 for more details on this case study
- RT summary: an overview of the social learning that took place within (and thanks to) the DAF Research Team. See also Annexes 5.5 and 5.6 for more details.
FairCoop & Faircoin
- FairCoop summary: for an overview of research findings concerning FairCoop. See also Chapter 4 for more details.
- Chapter 6, Section 2: for my assessment of whether radical collective change happened thanks to FairCoop. See also Conclusion, Section 1.
Online communities and ICT
- Tools summary: for an overview of the shadow sides of ICT (see also Chapter 1, Section 1.3)
- Chapter 2, Section 1.2: for a review of the literature about prefigurative online communities and communities of practice
- Chapter 4, Section 2.2.2: on problems linked to the use of ICT within the online community of FairCoop
- Chapter 5, Section 2.2 and Section 2.3: on how ICT have been useful and problematic within the context of DAF as an online community
Relationality
- Chapter 4, Section 2.3: about relationships within FairCoop as a community.
- DAF Landscape summary: on how cultivating relationality was one of the main forms of collective change pursued within DAF. See also Chapter 5, Section 2.2 and section 3.1 for more details, and Annex 5.4 for the relational framing in DAF.
- D&D Circle summary: for an example of a self-organised group focused on cultivating relationships. See also Annex 5.3 for more details.
Social learning
- DAF landscape summary: for an overview of the main results of the Wenger-Trayner soc learning evaluation in DAF
- Chapter 5: for more details about these results
- Faircoop summary: for an overview of the evaluation process in Faircoop
- Chapter 4: for the more details about this process
- Chapter 2, Section 1: a literature review on social learning
- Chapter 3: methodology used to evaluate social learning. See also Annex 3.2 for more details about the process used in FairCoop, and Annex 3.3 for more details on the process used in DAF
- Annex 5.5 and 5.6: to learn more about the DAF Research Team's social learning evaluation process