Bridging scholarship and activism : reflections from the frontlines of collaborative research / edited by Bernd Reiter and Ulrich Oslender.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oslender, Ulrich, editor.

Reiter, Bernd, 1968- editor.

Series:

Transformations in higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Political activists.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

xx, 208 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This timely book brings together activist scholars from a number of disciplines (political science, geography, sociology, anthropology, and communications) to provide new insights into a growing trend in publicly engaged research and scholarship. Bridging Scholarship and Activism creatively redefines what constitutes activism without limiting it to a narrow range of practices. Acknowledging that the current conjuncture of neoliberal globalization has created constraints on as well as possibilities for activist scholarly engagement, the book argues that racism and its intersections with gender and class oppression are salient forces to be interrogated and confronted in the predicaments and struggles activist scholarship targets. The book's ultimate goal is to create a decolonized and democratized forum in which activist scholars from the Global South converse and cross-fertilize ideas and projects with their counterparts from the United States and other North Atlantic metropolitan-based academy. The coeditors and contributors attempt to decenter hegemonic knowledge and to create some of the necessary (if not sufficient) conditions for a more pluriversal (rather than orthodox "universal") context for producing enabling knowledge. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Promises and Pitfalls of Collaborative Research

Of Academic Embeddedness: Communities of Choice and How to Make Sense of Activism and Research Abroad / Bernd Reiter Reiter, Bernd 3

New Shapes of Revolution / Gustavo Esteva Esteva, Gustavo 15

The Accidental Activist Scholar: A Memoir on Reactive Boundary and Identity Work for Social Change within the Academy / Rob Benford Benford, Rob 31

Can Development Bridge the Gap between Activism and Academia? / Cristina Espinosa Espinosa, Cristina 49

Leaving the Field: How to Write about Disappointment and Frustration in Collaborative Research / Ulrich Oslender Oslender, Ulrich 63

Invisible Heroes / Eshe Lewis Lewis, Eshe 75

Part 2 Negotiating Raciaiized and Gendered Positionalities

El Muntu en América / Manuel Zapata Olivella Olivella, Manuel Zapata 99

Activism as History Making: The Collective and the Personal in Collaborative Research with the Process of Black Communities in Colombia / Arturo Escobar Escobar, Arturo 105

Out of Bounds: Negotiating Researcher Positionality in Brazil / Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman Hordge-Freeman, Elizabeth 123

Between Soapboxes and Shadows: Activism, Theory, and the Politics of Life and Death in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil / Christen A. Smith Smith, Christen A. 135

State Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Perry, Keisha-Khan Y. 151

The Challenges Resulting from Combining Scientific Production and Social-Political Activism in the Brazilian Academy / Fernando Conceição Conceição, Fernando 171

The Challenge of Doing Applied/Activist Anti-Racist Anthropology in Revolutionary Cuba / Gayle L. McGairity McGairity, Gayle L. 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781611861471

1611861470

OCLC:

895728615