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This chapter examines some examples of development-oriented research directed toward actively furthering social as well as environmental justice (McIntyre-Mills, Report prepared for South Australian Local Government Association. Flinders University, Adelaide 2013; McIntyre-Mills, Systemic ethics and non-anthropocentric stewardship. Springer, New York, 2014a; McIntyre-Mills, Transformation from Wall Street to wellbeing. Springer, New York, 2014b; McIntyre-Mills, Planetary passport. Springer, New York, 2017; Roman-Alcalá, Paper presented for discussion at an international conference held at Yale University entitled Food Sovereignty: a critical dialogue 2013; Roman-Alcalá, Globalizations 12(4):545–558, 2015; Maathai, Unbowed: A memoir, Anchor Books, New York, 2006). I start with McIntyre-Mills' facilitation of research (in conjunction with a local government association) in a region of South Australia. The research involved employing a software package with which participants were encouraged to engage in an interactive fashion to expand their reflections around social and environmental issues in relation to alternative development scenarios. I then discuss the deliberations of Roman-Alcalá (Globalizations 12(4):545–558, 2015) as he reflects as an insider on a case of "Occupy The Farm" on Earth Day at the University of California in 2012. Based on interviews and conversations with some of those involved (and his own theorizing) he explores the intention of the activists toward transcending economistic thinking within a global movement for social justice and deep ecological thinking. Finally, I turn to the autobiographical narration of Maathai (Unbowed: A memoir, Anchor Books, New York, 2006) in relation to her involvement in founding the Green Belt Movement in Kenya. I class this as an example of transformative autoethnographic research which expresses her learning and her critical spirit, while inspiring practices undertaken with a similar spirit of care for people and the land.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74386-8_6

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