Staying with the trouble: unpacking methodological challenges for studying insider activists and taking a stance

Authors Kristina Lauche, Julia Borgers, Caroline Maessen, Ann Langley
Published in Methodology to Address Grand Challenges: Theory, Practice and Interventions
Publication date 16 July 2026
Type Book

Summary

Chapter 10 from the book Methodology to Address Grand Challenges. This book explores how diverse methodologies are, and can be, applied to tackle grand challenges. Contributing authors promote both inward and outward introspection of existing assumptions, values and systems, emphasising the importance of complexifying, bridging theory and practice, engaging with the future and embracing alternative ways of knowing.

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Language English
Published in Methodology to Address Grand Challenges: Theory, Practice and Interventions
ISBN/ISSN URN:ISBN:9781035314300
Key words ethnomethdological fieldwork, qualitative research, insider activists, reflexivity, future-making
Digital Object Identifier 10.4337/9781035314317.00015
Page range 219-253

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