Action Research for Exploring Kinship Networks in a Time of Eco-Social Crisis. S1 Ep20

In her address to the 2025 UAE Family and Society Conference, Dr. Hilary Bradbury introduces action research as a social change and transformations methodology that is helping post conventional kinship networks respond to eco-social crisis. She discusses in depth an example of action research that is successfully tackling social cohesion issues in a European Eco Village. That’s a village where people seek to live more socially and ecologically sustainably. She brings attention to the human-relational bonds at the heart of living in community. She then illustrates how participative action research tackles, supports and transforms the social cohesion problems. This work supports a post conventional, post tribal, kinship network. Where conventionally people have relied on strong family structures for emotional and social stability, today’s increasing migration, technological and social changes, have weakened traditional bonds. Today there are significant human challenges both physical and mental. At the same time, our collective planetary thresholds for biological health are beyond what can be easily fixed. Hilary argues and illustrates that we need a new way of living, of working, of researching. May many more of us learn and practice action research for transformations. Listen in! Or watch the video in the show notes below to see the complete slide deck. Show notes: https://actionresearchplus.com/action-research-is-a-social-change-and-transformations-methodology-for-eco-village-and-kinship-networks/