Miren Larrea
Biographic Data
| ID | 4144939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miren Larrea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miren |
| FAMILY NAME | Larrea |
| SIGNATURE | LARREA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Deusto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4724-0015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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A place-based approach in collaborative governance
Collaborative governance is a broad concept that includes many forms of collaborative arrangements among various actors that differ in their nature, objectives, and types of interactions. This article empirically illustrates how, despite being understudied in the literature on collaborative governance, the “place” dimension (used here to refer to territory as a collective subject) can serve as a backbone that provides a distinctive logic and dyna…
Reformulating action research to facilitate territorial responses to climate change
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue by presenting the results of a learning process shared by action researchers coming from different action research traditions and geographical areas. The goal of this learning process has been to generate explicit criteria and features that action researchers can integrate in their facilitative work in territorial development processes to make these development processes more effective i…
From working with theatre to action research for more regenerative ways of living and organizing
Extract ----- Bibliography: Hersted, Lone/Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: From working with theatre to action research for more regenerative ways of living and organizing: Interview with Lone Hersted, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 20, Issue 1-2024, pp. 5-10. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v20i1.02
A practitioner’s journey of change
Extract ----- Bibliography: Staines-Díaz, León/Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: A practitioner’s journey of change: Interview with Leon Staines, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 19, Issue 3-2023, pp. 191-197. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i3.03
Action Researching for Transformations
Bibliography: Bradbury, Hilary/Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: Action Researching for Transformations: Interview with Hilary Bradbury, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 19, Issue 2-2023, pp. 174-178. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i2.07
Interview Davydd Greenwood. The Mid-career Making of an Action Researcher
Extract ----- Bibliography: Greenwood, Davydd J./Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: Interview Davydd Greenwood. The Mid-career Making of an Action Researcher, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 19, Issue 1-2023, pp. 91-103. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.08
A slow and steady journey with Action Research. Interview with Malida Mooken
Extract ----- Bibliography: Mooken, Malida/Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: A slow and steady journey with Action Research. Interview with Malida Mooken, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 18, Issue 3-2022, pp. 285-292. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i3.06
Think tanks for a new generation of regional innovation policies
Regional innovation policy, and related research, are being pressurized to transform by today’s grand societal challenges. Our paper acknowledges the efforts of authors in this field to address this pressure and addresses how new emergent framings of innovation policy can be operationalized in practice. We explore how co-generative research can help achieve this and share the case of a think tank in the Basque Country (Spain) which we describe as…
Rigor y capacidad transformadora de la investigación sobre sistemas regionales de innovación
El enfoque de sistemas regionales de innovación ha ingresado en el ámbito académico y de definición de políticas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación bajo criterios normativos y universalistas. Los y las investigadoras, de la corriente dominante, han adoptado una posición de observación externa y asesoría utilizando marcos analíticos que les dificulta captar la especificidad de los procesos de aprendizaje, cambio tecnológico y capacidades de innov…
Tribute to Danilo Streck
Bibliography: Eikeland, Olav/Ennals, Richard/Fricke, Werner/Larrea, Miren/Palshaugen, Øyvind/Sobottka, Emil Albert: Tribute to Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2022, pp. 6-7. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.02
Life as Action Research”. Interview with Richard Ennals by Miren Larrea and Danilo Streck
Extract ----- Bibliography: Larrea, Miren/Streck, Danilo R.: “Life as Action Research”. Interview with Richard Ennals by Miren Larrea and Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 3-2021, pp. 268-275. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i3.05
About my learning journey with Action Research. Interview with Danilo Streck
Extract ----- Bibliography: Larrea, Miren/Ennals, Richard: About my learning journey with Action Research. Interview with Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 18, Issue 2-2022, pp. 193-200. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i2.08
On Social Productivity and Future Perspectives on Action Research
The paper addresses some of the consequences of neoliberalism in our societies and argues that the phenomena that is being discussed under the label of surveillance capitalism has deep implications regarding action research. It fractures individuals into apolitical wants and needs, neutralising the core of action research which is the integrity of the individual and the social fabric. But this can be a two-way relationship, and action research ca…
Years in 40 minutes. Interview with Øyvind Pålshaugen
Extract ----- Bibliography: Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: 40 years in 40 minutes. Interview with Øyvind Pålshaugen, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2022, pp. 79-93. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.08
Love as an energizing feature of action research for territorial development
In the face of today’s urgent societal challenges, there are constant calls for regional governments to respond to them. Yet, policies, including those developed through action research, appear to be transforming too slowly. This paper focuses on love as a methodological dimension of action research that can energize these responses. One of the main features of love is that it requires mastering the interplay between reason and emotion, and I use…
Action research and politics
Motivated by a real case of action research with political aims, we focus attention on the importance of power dynamics and emotional work for all involved in the facilitation and manifestation of new policy. The paper introduces an extension of contemporary action research called Action Research Transformations (ART). In ART, reflexive co-agency operates as a core concept and practice, because it furthers the possibility of moving toward mutuali…
Introduction
Bibliography: Wittmayer, Julia/Bartels, Koen/Larrea, Miren: Introduction: Action Research, Policy and Politics. Special Issue of the International Journal of Action Research, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2021, pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i1.01
Governance of Industry 4.0 policies
This paper provides a better understanding of how governance of Industry 4.0 policies can make knowledge services accessible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The rationale is that when SMEs cannot access specific Industry 4.0 knowledge in the market, then governments and university social researchers can collaborate on developing new territorial governance to make such knowledge accessible. The case study here described spotlights h…
Action Research Journal’s seven quality choicepoints for action oriented research for transformations
Action Research Journal’s seven quality choicepoints for action oriented research for transformations
Rethinking the communication of action research
The paper proposes connectivity as an interactive approach to communicating research results from action research processes. It argues that action researchers tend to communicate their research results to the action research community in linear ways, which is inconsistent with the principles of action research. In so doing, action researchers miss out on an opportunity to engage in learning processes with other action researchers. Such learning p…
The Contribution of Action Research to Industry 4.0 Policies
The article is written in the intersection of the fields of regional development and action research, which use different languages when referring to development. The first revolves around innovation revenues, market shares and competitiveness while the second focuses on emancipation, democratisation and empowerment. Based on an experience in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain), the case used in this paper tells us how a regional government, the Pro…
Improving the approach to conflict in action research through deliberative policy analysis
This paper focuses on how theoretical work developed in deliberative policy analysis (DPA) can contribute to action research (AR) through a better understanding of the policy world. It is based on a programme in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain) where action researchers have been collaborating with policymakers since 2009. Our paper shows how concepts like pluralism, agonism and escalation have helped to reframe the approach to conflict in action …
We are not third parties
Action research has approached conflict mainly through the concept of conflict resolution, where action researchers play a role as third parties acting as organizers, conveners, and facilitators. This paper proposes a complementary role as stakeholders in the conflicts of territorial development and thus, as one more part in conflict. This is done in the context of one specific approach to action research, namely, action research for territorial …
Paulo Freire en la investigación-acción para el desarrollo territorial
El artículo presenta una reflexión sobre cómo el pensamiento de Paulo Freire está siendo reinventado por un equipo de investigadores en la acción en el ámbito del desarrollo territorial (DT). Parte de una lectura crítica de la literatura de los sistemas regionales de innovación, que está influyendo notablemente las políticas en Europa, y la investigación-acción, que es la aproximación adoptada por este equipo y lo que les guía a la lectura de la …
Action Research Journal’s seven quality choicepoints for action oriented research for transformations
Action Research Journal’s seven quality choicepoints for action oriented research for transformations
We are not third parties
Action research has approached conflict mainly through the concept of conflict resolution, where action researchers play a role as third parties acting as organizers, conveners, and facilitators. This paper proposes a complementary role as stakeholders in the conflicts of territorial development and thus, as one more part in conflict. This is done in the context of one specific approach to action research, namely, action research for territorial …
Rethinking the communication of action research
The paper proposes connectivity as an interactive approach to communicating research results from action research processes. It argues that action researchers tend to communicate their research results to the action research community in linear ways, which is inconsistent with the principles of action research. In so doing, action researchers miss out on an opportunity to engage in learning processes with other action researchers. Such learning p…
Improving the approach to conflict in action research through deliberative policy analysis
This paper focuses on how theoretical work developed in deliberative policy analysis (DPA) can contribute to action research (AR) through a better understanding of the policy world. It is based on a programme in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain) where action researchers have been collaborating with policymakers since 2009. Our paper shows how concepts like pluralism, agonism and escalation have helped to reframe the approach to conflict in action …
Moving context from the background to the forefront of policy learning
The article focuses on policy learning processes with the aim of sharing knowledge about how policy learning happens. In doing this, it considers conflict as a natural process in policy learning and proposes action research as a possible strategy to address it. By reflecting on a long-term action research process in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain), the article proposes a change of focus in assessing the role of context. If we ass…
On Social Productivity and Future Perspectives on Action Research
The paper addresses some of the consequences of neoliberalism in our societies and argues that the phenomena that is being discussed under the label of surveillance capitalism has deep implications regarding action research. It fractures individuals into apolitical wants and needs, neutralising the core of action research which is the integrity of the individual and the social fabric. But this can be a two-way relationship, and action research ca…
Love as an energizing feature of action research for territorial development
In the face of today’s urgent societal challenges, there are constant calls for regional governments to respond to them. Yet, policies, including those developed through action research, appear to be transforming too slowly. This paper focuses on love as a methodological dimension of action research that can energize these responses. One of the main features of love is that it requires mastering the interplay between reason and emotion, and I use…
Introduction
Bibliography: Wittmayer, Julia/Bartels, Koen/Larrea, Miren: Introduction: Action Research, Policy and Politics. Special Issue of the International Journal of Action Research, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2021, pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i1.01
The Contribution of Action Research to Industry 4.0 Policies
The article is written in the intersection of the fields of regional development and action research, which use different languages when referring to development. The first revolves around innovation revenues, market shares and competitiveness while the second focuses on emancipation, democratisation and empowerment. Based on an experience in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain), the case used in this paper tells us how a regional government, the Pro…
Changing universities through action research
The paper departs from the work of Davydd Greenwood and Morten Levin on the transformation of universities through action research to raise the question of how action research can be the engine of change in an organisational setting where conditions are inimical to its practice. It shares some theoretical contributions that frame this challenge and proposes insider action research as a potential method to face it. The paper then presents the case…
Action research and politics
Motivated by a real case of action research with political aims, we focus attention on the importance of power dynamics and emotional work for all involved in the facilitation and manifestation of new policy. The paper introduces an extension of contemporary action research called Action Research Transformations (ART). In ART, reflexive co-agency operates as a core concept and practice, because it furthers the possibility of moving toward mutuali…
Governance of Industry 4.0 policies
This paper provides a better understanding of how governance of Industry 4.0 policies can make knowledge services accessible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The rationale is that when SMEs cannot access specific Industry 4.0 knowledge in the market, then governments and university social researchers can collaborate on developing new territorial governance to make such knowledge accessible. The case study here described spotlights h…
Emergence of shared leadership in the Basque Country
In a workshop with networkers from different development agencies in the Basque Country, an exercise on shared history was performed as an introduction to a seminar on the role of local policy networks in the development of the region. The participants were asked to pinpoint critical events of the past that would be of assistance in understanding their current efforts to create or develop such networks. Most of them spoke of thwarted attempts to …
Moving context from the background to the forefront of policy learning
The article focuses on policy learning processes with the aim of sharing knowledge about how policy learning happens. In doing this, it considers conflict as a natural process in policy learning and proposes action research as a possible strategy to address it. By reflecting on a long-term action research process in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain), the article proposes a change of focus in assessing the role of context. If we ass…
Paulo Freire en la investigación-acción para el desarrollo territorial
El artículo presenta una reflexión sobre cómo el pensamiento de Paulo Freire está siendo reinventado por un equipo de investigadores en la acción en el ámbito del desarrollo territorial (DT). Parte de una lectura crítica de la literatura de los sistemas regionales de innovación, que está influyendo notablemente las políticas en Europa, y la investigación-acción, que es la aproximación adoptada por este equipo y lo que les guía a la lectura de la …
Changing universities through action research
The paper departs from the work of Davydd Greenwood and Morten Levin on the transformation of universities through action research to raise the question of how action research can be the engine of change in an organisational setting where conditions are inimical to its practice. It shares some theoretical contributions that frame this challenge and proposes insider action research as a potential method to face it. The paper then presents the case…
The Contribution of Action Research to Industry 4.0 Policies
The article is written in the intersection of the fields of regional development and action research, which use different languages when referring to development. The first revolves around innovation revenues, market shares and competitiveness while the second focuses on emancipation, democratisation and empowerment. Based on an experience in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain), the case used in this paper tells us how a regional government, the Pro…
Improving the approach to conflict in action research through deliberative policy analysis
This paper focuses on how theoretical work developed in deliberative policy analysis (DPA) can contribute to action research (AR) through a better understanding of the policy world. It is based on a programme in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain) where action researchers have been collaborating with policymakers since 2009. Our paper shows how concepts like pluralism, agonism and escalation have helped to reframe the approach to conflict in action …
We are not third parties
Action research has approached conflict mainly through the concept of conflict resolution, where action researchers play a role as third parties acting as organizers, conveners, and facilitators. This paper proposes a complementary role as stakeholders in the conflicts of territorial development and thus, as one more part in conflict. This is done in the context of one specific approach to action research, namely, action research for territorial …
Action Research Journal’s seven quality choicepoints for action oriented research for transformations
Action Research Journal’s seven quality choicepoints for action oriented research for transformations
Rethinking the communication of action research
The paper proposes connectivity as an interactive approach to communicating research results from action research processes. It argues that action researchers tend to communicate their research results to the action research community in linear ways, which is inconsistent with the principles of action research. In so doing, action researchers miss out on an opportunity to engage in learning processes with other action researchers. Such learning p…
Action research and politics
Motivated by a real case of action research with political aims, we focus attention on the importance of power dynamics and emotional work for all involved in the facilitation and manifestation of new policy. The paper introduces an extension of contemporary action research called Action Research Transformations (ART). In ART, reflexive co-agency operates as a core concept and practice, because it furthers the possibility of moving toward mutuali…
Introduction
Bibliography: Wittmayer, Julia/Bartels, Koen/Larrea, Miren: Introduction: Action Research, Policy and Politics. Special Issue of the International Journal of Action Research, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2021, pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i1.01
Governance of Industry 4.0 policies
This paper provides a better understanding of how governance of Industry 4.0 policies can make knowledge services accessible for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The rationale is that when SMEs cannot access specific Industry 4.0 knowledge in the market, then governments and university social researchers can collaborate on developing new territorial governance to make such knowledge accessible. The case study here described spotlights h…
Think tanks for a new generation of regional innovation policies
Regional innovation policy, and related research, are being pressurized to transform by today’s grand societal challenges. Our paper acknowledges the efforts of authors in this field to address this pressure and addresses how new emergent framings of innovation policy can be operationalized in practice. We explore how co-generative research can help achieve this and share the case of a think tank in the Basque Country (Spain) which we describe as…
Rigor y capacidad transformadora de la investigación sobre sistemas regionales de innovación
El enfoque de sistemas regionales de innovación ha ingresado en el ámbito académico y de definición de políticas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación bajo criterios normativos y universalistas. Los y las investigadoras, de la corriente dominante, han adoptado una posición de observación externa y asesoría utilizando marcos analíticos que les dificulta captar la especificidad de los procesos de aprendizaje, cambio tecnológico y capacidades de innov…
Tribute to Danilo Streck
Bibliography: Eikeland, Olav/Ennals, Richard/Fricke, Werner/Larrea, Miren/Palshaugen, Øyvind/Sobottka, Emil Albert: Tribute to Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2022, pp. 6-7. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.02
Life as Action Research”. Interview with Richard Ennals by Miren Larrea and Danilo Streck
Extract ----- Bibliography: Larrea, Miren/Streck, Danilo R.: “Life as Action Research”. Interview with Richard Ennals by Miren Larrea and Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 3-2021, pp. 268-275. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v17i3.05
About my learning journey with Action Research. Interview with Danilo Streck
Extract ----- Bibliography: Larrea, Miren/Ennals, Richard: About my learning journey with Action Research. Interview with Danilo Streck, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 18, Issue 2-2022, pp. 193-200. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i2.08
On Social Productivity and Future Perspectives on Action Research
The paper addresses some of the consequences of neoliberalism in our societies and argues that the phenomena that is being discussed under the label of surveillance capitalism has deep implications regarding action research. It fractures individuals into apolitical wants and needs, neutralising the core of action research which is the integrity of the individual and the social fabric. But this can be a two-way relationship, and action research ca…
Years in 40 minutes. Interview with Øyvind Pålshaugen
Extract ----- Bibliography: Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: 40 years in 40 minutes. Interview with Øyvind Pålshaugen, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, 1-2022, pp. 79-93. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i1.08
Love as an energizing feature of action research for territorial development
In the face of today’s urgent societal challenges, there are constant calls for regional governments to respond to them. Yet, policies, including those developed through action research, appear to be transforming too slowly. This paper focuses on love as a methodological dimension of action research that can energize these responses. One of the main features of love is that it requires mastering the interplay between reason and emotion, and I use…
Action Researching for Transformations
Bibliography: Bradbury, Hilary/Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: Action Researching for Transformations: Interview with Hilary Bradbury, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 19, Issue 2-2023, pp. 174-178. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i2.07
Interview Davydd Greenwood. The Mid-career Making of an Action Researcher
Extract ----- Bibliography: Greenwood, Davydd J./Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: Interview Davydd Greenwood. The Mid-career Making of an Action Researcher, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 19, Issue 1-2023, pp. 91-103. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i1.08
A slow and steady journey with Action Research. Interview with Malida Mooken
Extract ----- Bibliography: Mooken, Malida/Streck, Danilo/Larrea, Miren: A slow and steady journey with Action Research. Interview with Malida Mooken, IJAR – International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 18, Issue 3-2022, pp. 285-292. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v18i3.06
A place-based approach in collaborative governance
Collaborative governance is a broad concept that includes many forms of collaborative arrangements among various actors that differ in their nature, objectives, and types of interactions. This article empirically illustrates how, despite being understudied in the literature on collaborative governance, the “place” dimension (used here to refer to territory as a collective subject) can serve as a backbone that provides a distinctive logic and dyna…
Reformulating action research to facilitate territorial responses to climate change
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue by presenting the results of a learning process shared by action researchers coming from different action research traditions and geographical areas. The goal of this learning process has been to generate explicit criteria and features that action researchers can integrate in their facilitative work in territorial development processes to make these development processes more effective i…
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