Engaging contradictions : theory, politics, and methods of activist scholarship / edited by Charles R. Hale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Charles R., Author.

Contributor:

Hale, Charles R., 1957-

Series:

Global, area, and international archive.

Global, area, and international archive

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political activists.

Social action.

Scholars.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Summary:

Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly into the process of knowledge production. What ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists map the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet.Contributors: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Edmund T. Gordon, Davydd Greenwood, Joy James, Peter Nien-chu Kiang, George Lipsitz, Samuel Martínez, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Dani Nabudere, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Jemima Pierre, Laura Pulido, Shannon Speed, Shirley Suet-ling Tang, João Vargas

Contents:

Forgotten places and the seeds of grassroots planning / Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Research, activism, and knowledge production / Dani Wadada Nabudere

Breaking the chains and steering the ship : how activism can help change teaching and scholarship / George Lipsitz

Activist groundings or groundings for activism? : the study of racialization as a site of political engagement / Jemima Pierre

Globalizing scholar activism : opportunities and dilemmas through a feminist lens / Jennifer Bickham Mendez

Activist scholarship : limits and possibilities in times of black genocide / João H. Costa Vargas

Making violence visible : an activist anthropological approach to women's rights investigation / Samuel Martínez

Forged in dialogue : toward a critically engaged activist research / Shannon Speed

Community-centered research as knowledge/capacity building in immigrant and refugee communities / Shirley Suet-ling Tang

Theorizing and practicing democratic community economics : engaged scholarship, economic justice, and the academy / Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Crouching activists, hidden scholars : reflections on research and development with students and communities in Asian American studies / Peter Nien-chu Kiang

Theoretical research, applied research, and action research : the deinstitutionalization of activist research / Davydd J. Greenwood

FAQs : frequently (un)asked questions about being a scholar activist / Laura Pulido

Afterword : activist scholars or radical subjects? / by Joy James and Edmund T. Gordon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612356179

9781282356177

1282356178

9780520916173

0520916174

OCLC:

667011184