Globalizing the research imagination / edited by Jane Kenway and Johannah Fahey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kenway, Jane.

Fahey, Johannah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Globalization.

Intellectuals--Interviews.

Intellectuals.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

144 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

In a series of interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals, the authors explore what it might mean to globalize the research imagination. They interview Arjun Appadurai, Raewyn Connell, Doreen Massey, Aihwa Ong, Fazal Rizvi and Saskia Sassen. All are foremost in their research fields and their thinking on globalization is influential and inspirational, particularly for those who would challenge ideas of globalization from 'on high' and 'afar'. Also, in the substantial and provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized to support researchers to develop 'defiant' global imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and 'become' differently in a world of research increasingly governed by rampant reductionist rationality. In these circumstances, progressive researchers in the social sciences and humanities urgently need to decide for themselves how best to globalize research methodologies and communities.

Contents:

List of interviewees

Imagining research otherwise

Arjun Appadurai: the shifting ground from which we speak

Raewyn Connell: peripheral visions; beyond the metropole

Homi K. Bhabha: in the midst of knowledge

Doreen Massey: responsibilities over distance

Aihwa Ong: on being human and ethical living

Fazal Rizvi: mobile minds

Saskia Sassen: digging in the shadows

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415412216

0415412218

9780415412223

0415412226

OCLC:

183149725