Research Areas

Research Areas

ReForm intends to investigate resource-related transformations on a theoretical and empirical level. In doing so, we start from a “theory of practice” approach that helps to analyse the development of societal institutions and their economic action, but furthermore incorporates the current discourses of materiality and embodiment. Our scientific approach is to consider materialised resources as affordances for individuals and societies and to integrate their potential role in transformative processes.

Such a multidisciplinary discourse allows us to embed different theoretical and empirical studies into a broader and new field of research on resource-related transformations. This holistic idea of ReForm requires different levels of research, perhaps best described as micro, meso and macro.

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