Global Crises
Complexity Based Research and Practice for Social Transformation
By David Byrne, Gill Callaghan and Emma Uprichard
Published
Mar 28, 2025Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1447370833Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Mar 28, 2025Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1447370857Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
Global Crises
David Byrne is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology and Fellow of the Durham Research Methods Centre at Durham University.
Gill Callaghan is Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at Durham University.
Emma Uprichard is Reader at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) at the University of Warwick and an applied social science methodologist.
Introduction
Part 1
1. Crisis and Change in the Era of the Capitalocene
2. Beyond Dualisms
3. Time, Place and Crisis
Part 2:
4. Climate crisis
5. Crisis in Health and Care
6. Fiscal crisis
7. Inequality Crisis
8. Urban Crisis
Part 3:
9. Transgressing Disciplines in Socioecological Research
10. Complexity Congruent Research: Methods and Methodology
11. Research for Action - Research as Transformative Governance
Conclusion: Scenarios for Possible Futures
