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Collective Action Today The Centre for Collective Action Research
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Founded in 2016, CeCAR is an inter-disciplinary centre of researchers at the University of Gothenburg. CeCAR involves experts from the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the School of Business Economics and Law, the Faculty of Arts as well as the Faculty of Education. The centre focuses on one of the most pressing challenges of today: Large-Scale Collective Action (LSCA). This is a challenge that needs to be addressed in order to overcome most of our current social, environmental and health problems.
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Malcolm Fairbrother: Trusting the System
Episode 1: Sociologist Malcolm Fairbrother (Professor, Umeå University) discusses his ongoing research with CeCAR political scientist Niklas Harring (Associate Professor, Gothenburg University) in our first CeCAR research podcast. This episode focuses on the complex nature of trust and the role it plays in our ongoing battle against climate change. The discussion also highlights some of the major challenges researchers, politicians and the public face when dealing with these crucial environmental issues - as well as offering some reasons to be optimistic about the future.
Malcolm Fairbrother is a comparative political sociologist at Umeå University, who studies environmental policy and politics, economic globalization, trust, and social science research methods — and the relationships among them.
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