Engaging Contradictions - Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-520-09861-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 417 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Global, Area, and International Archive

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hale, Charles R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Calhoun, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Resources

Foreword, by Craig Calhoun

Introduction

Charles R. Hale

PART I. MAPPING THE TERRAIN
1. Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning Ruth Wilson Gilmore
2. Research, Activism, and Knowledge Production Dani Wadada Nabudere
3. Breaking the Chains and Steering the Ship: How Activism Can Help Change Teaching and Scholarship George Lipsitz

PART II. TROUBLING THE TERMS
4. Activist Groundings or Groundings for Activism? The Study of Racialization as a Site of Political Engagement Jemima Pierre
5. Globalizing Scholar Activism: Opportunities and Dilemmas through a Feminist Lens Jennifer Bickham Mendez
6. Activist Scholarship: Limits and Possibilities in Times of Black Genocide João H. Costa Vargas
7. Making Violence Visible: An Activist Anthropological Approach to Women’s Rights Investigation Samuel Martínez

PART III. PUTTING ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP TO WORK
8. Forged in Dialogue: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research Shannon Speed
9. Community-Centered Research as Knowledge/Capacity Building in Immigrant and Refugee Communities Shirley Suet-ling Tang
10. Theorizing and Practicing Democratic Community Economics: Engaged Scholarship, Economic Justice, and the Academy Jessica Gordon Nembhard

PART IV. MAKING OURSELVES AT HOME
11. Crouching Activists, Hidden Scholars: Reflections on Research and Development with Students and Communities in Asian American Studies Peter Nien-chu Kiang
12. Theoretical Research, Applied Research, and Action Research: The Deinstitutionalization of Activist Research Davydd J. Greenwood
13. 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

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles R. Hale is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. For 2006-7, he is President of the Latin American Studies Association.