Call for papers for special issue on "Social Human Complexity and Global Challenges: Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Contributions for Transformative Change"
This Special Issue calls upon contributions for researching and understanding the role of social human processes and dynamics in the context of global challenges and to building more complexity aware knowledge to guide actions towards transformative social and social-ecological changes. It especially welcomes deeply interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches fostering meaningful creative exchanges between theory, research and practice, e.g., policy-making, and social interventions. It also welcomes contributions that bridge and integrate, from a complex systems perspective, academic and other than academic knowledge. Special value is placed on multidimensional, complex research designs and methodologies, particularly qualitative and mixed-methods approaches. It encourages philosophical, theoretical as well as methodological contributions for researching and intervening in human complexity in complex ways. A variety of topics, focused on different kinds of systems and contexts (e.g., families, schools, communities, governments, food systems, business, policies, public services) are welcomed to the extent that they explicitly address social human processes in relation to complex challenges from a complexity-informed perspective. Integrative and ecological approaches that cover or have applicability in multiple domains (e.g., family, health, education, work, justice) are especially valued as well as contributions that target community-based social and social-ecological systems and transformative change processes.
The call is open for submissions until the 25th of July. For any issue please contact the Guest Editorial Team.