Disjuntiva. Crítica de les Ciències Socials ISSN 2659-7071

The dossier aims to analyze, highlight, and deepen our understanding—from diverse perspectives—of the strategies that seek to restore and strengthen public and communal approaches in the face of the ongoing water crisis. Whether from the state, social rights, and public policies, or from neighborhood, community, or autonomous forms of organization, the intention is to account for solutions grounded in principles such as: reaffirming the public sphere, revisiting communal traditions and practices, employing ecotechnologies and appropriate knowledge that empower collective actors, and fostering the governance of the commons.

The journal Disjuntiva. Crítica de les Ciències Socials of the University of Alicante is preparing a special issue for July 2026, volume 7, number 2, focusing on applied social research in the field of citizen participation, community engagement, and involvement. This monograph seeks to explore, from a critical, empirical, theoretical, and/or interpretive perspective, the ways in which citizen participation processes, whether institutionalized or not, influence the configuration of more democratic, just, egalitarian, and sustainable community experiences.