Engaging Contradictions Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship

Name: Engaging Contradictions Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship
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ISBN: 9780520098619

ISBN-10: 0520098617

ISBN-13: 9780520098619

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles R. Hale, Craig Calhoun

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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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 417
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Resources


Foreword



Introduction




Mapping the Terrain



Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning




Research, Activism, and Knowledge Production




Breaking the Chains and Steering the Ship: How Activism Can Help Change Teaching and Scholarship




Troubling the Terms



Activist Groundings or Groundings for Activism? The Study of Racialization as a Site of Political Engagement




Globalizing Scholar Activism: Opportunities and Dilemmas through a Feminist Lens




Activist Scholarship: Limits and Possibilities in Times of Black Genocide




Making Violence Visible: An Activist Anthropological Approach to Women's Rights Investigation




Putting Activist Scholarship to Work



Forged in Dialogue: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research




Community-Centered Research as Knowledge/Capacity Building in Immigrant and Refugee Communities




Theorizing and Practicing Democratic Community Economics: Engaged Scholarship, Economic Justice, and the Academy




Making Ourselves at Home



Crouching Activists, Hidden Scholars: Reflections on Research and Development with Students and Communities in Asian American Studies




Theoretical Research, Applied Research, and Action Research: The Deinstitutionalization of Activist Research




FAQs: Frequently (Un) Asked Questions about Being a Scholar Activist



Afterword: Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects?



Contributors


Index