Using the Cultures Framework for Research

Abstract

This chapter is designed to guide academics and students who wish to undertake research using the cultures framework. It offers a structured approach to cultural research that can be used by researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The variables and dynamics depicted by the framework are able to be discovered, described and analysed using a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The framework can also be used as a meta-theoretical framing. It invites interdisciplinary endeavours and multi-method research approaches, and operates well as an integrating framework. Further research on culture and sustainability is needed to build up a better understanding of, amongst other things, universal cultural processes, transforming unsustainable meta-cultures, and the multiple roles that culture can play in sustainability transitions. The chapter concludes with suggesting further potential contributions to sustainability research from each of the nine perspectives of culture described in Chapter 2.

Innovative governance for transformative energy policy in sub-Saharan Africa after COVID-19: Green pathways in Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa

“…Through the deployment of green technologies, innovative local businesses and sectors, such as local fashion design, can be transformed into modern GVCs [ 44 , 142 ] with national, regional, and global impact. The pillar promotes cohesiveness in local energy transformation, enriches transformative learning or unlearning, and encourages adoption of cultural theories and frameworks that are integrative and assist with the interpretation of complex energy transitions [ 36 , 143 , 144 ]. The pillar is known as transformative alternatives to mainstream perspectives , or Pillar 8 in Fig.…”