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Format: 1 online resource (188 p.) : , n-a

ISBN: 9781978801196

Content: Across the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice. Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process. Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched. The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , 1 Introduction -- , 2 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It? -- , Part I Social Justice Organizing -- , 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive -- , 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research -- , 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing -- , Part II Worker Rights Activism -- , 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center -- , 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots -- , 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community -- , 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action -- , 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York -- , 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers -- , Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage -- , 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho -- , 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model -- , 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action -- , Notes on Contributors -- , About the Foundation -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9781978801196

URL: https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978801196

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978801196

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Format: 1 online resource (216 pages)

Edition: 2nd ed.

ISBN: 9780817384425

Content: Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of "archaeology activism" or "activist archaeology": using archaeology to advocate for and affect change in contemporary communities. Archaeologists currently change the world through the products of their archaeological research that contribute to our collective historical and cultural knowledge. Their work helps to shape and reshape our perceptions of the past and our understanding of written history. Archaeologists affect contemporary communities through the consequences of their work as they become embroiled in controversies over negotiating the past and the present with native peoples. Beyond the obvious economic contributions to local communities caused by heritage tourism established on the research of archaeologists at cultural sites, archaeologists have begun to use the process of their work as a means to benefit the public and even advocate for communities. In this volume, Stottman and his colleagues examine the various ways in which archaeologists can and do use their research to forge a partnership with the past and guide the ongoing dialogue between the archaeological record and the various contemporary stakeholders. They draw inspiration and guidance from applied anthropology, social history, public history, heritage studies, museum studies, historic preservation, philosophy, and education to develop an activist approach to archaeology-theoretically, methodologically, and ethically.

Content: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Archaeologists as Activists -- Part I: Reconceptualizing Archaeology for Activism -- 1. Archaeology and Activism of the Past and Present -- 2. Public Archaeology, Activism, and Racism: Rethinking the Heritage "Product" -- 3. Activism as Archaeological Praxis: Engaging Communities with Archaeologies that Matter -- 4. Doing Our Homework: Reconsidering What Archaeology Has to Offer Schools -- 5. "Movement Archaeology": Promoting the Labor Movement in Maryland -- Part II: Becoming Archaeology Activists: Perspectives on Community Archaeology -- 6. Negotiating History, Slavery, and the Present: Archaeology at Farmington Plantation -- 7. Archaeology and the Creation of a Civil War Park: Experiences from Camp Nelson, Kentucky -- 8. Reconnecting Community: Archaeology and Activismat the Portland Wharf -- 9. The Saratoga of the South Will Rise (or Be Razed) Again: Archaeologists Collaborating with Communities -- Epilogue: Changing the World with Archaeology -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817317126

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780817317126

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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