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Data Bases/References Sustainable development thinking and practices: beginning a major societal paradigm shift transforming social, economic, and cultural conditions Sociology and the social sciences shld play critical roles in documenting this potential revolution: a) monitoring and collecting data; b) analyzing, explaining, identifying the patterns of social articulations c) providing assessments of social impacts and related developments
Sustainability Frameworks: In Search of Evidence and Methodological Issues Global Goals vs. National-Local Practices Search for Cases and Evidence Heavily Macro; Need for more Meso and Micro Levels of Analysis Breaking down to researchable issues and questions Appropriate mobilization of concepts and methodologies in given contexts to contribute to knowledge building
Research-Publication Spaces/Opportunities
Illustration: WSSC 2013-14 Call for Papers and research questions focusing on
Consequences of climate change and environmental change Conditions and visions for change: Interpretation and subjective sense making Responsibilities & Ethics Governmentality and decision making Changing research practices and new ways of working in the social sciences
Transdisciplinarity Sustainable development North-South; East-West Participatory Research; Reflexive Methodologies Systems Analysis/Holistic but Very Disciplined Three interlinked dimensions: direction, diversity and distribution
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Child crossing makeshift bridge to buy food across waterway in swampy Ibayo Tipas, Taguig City, West Mangahan Flood Basin
Concluding Comments: Knowledge Building (KP) and Our Scholarship Theory-averse environment (legacy of ML); Locating ourselves within the larger, global universe of KP/scholarship; Developing the reflexivity in ourselves as scholars of the global south (Interrogating the concepts and theories produced in the North); A consciousness of building our intellectual identities and location within the epistemic communities Sustainability theory as a theory of practice(s)
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