Format:
Online-Ressource (xxvi, 390 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520098617
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9780520098619
Series Statement:
Global, area, and international archive
Content:
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 Gilm
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Resources; Foreword, by Craig Calhoun; Introduction; PART I. MAPPING THE TERRAIN; 1. Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning; 2. Research, Activism, and Knowledge Production; 3. Breaking the Chains and Steering the Ship: How Activism Can Help Change Teaching and Scholarship; PART II. TROUBLING THE TERMS; 4. Activist Groundings or Groundings for Activism? The Study of Racialization as a Site of Political Engagement; 5. Globalizing Scholar Activism: Opportunities and Dilemmas through a Feminist Lens
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6. Activist Scholarship: Limits and Possibilities in Times of Black Genocide7. Making Violence Visible: An Activist Anthropological Approach to Women's Rights Investigation; PART III. PUTTING ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP TO WORK; 8. Forged in Dialogue: Toward a Critically EngagedActivist Research; 9. Community-Centered Research as Knowledge/Capacity Building in Immigrant and Refugee Communities; 10. Theorizing and Practicing Democratic Community Economics: Engaged Scholarship, Economic Justice, and the Academy; PART IV. MAKING OURSELVES AT HOME
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11. Crouching Activists, Hidden Scholars: Reflections on Research and Development with Students andCommunities in Asian American Studies12. Theoretical Research, Applied Research, and Action Research: The Deinstitutionalization of Activist Research; 13. FAQs: Frequently (Un)Asked Questions about Being a Scholar Activist; Afterword: Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects? by Joy James and Edmund T. Gordon; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520916173
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520098619
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Engaging Contradictions : Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship
Language:
English
