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Bridging scholarship and activism : reflections from the frontlines of collaborative research /

This timely book brings together activist scholars from a number of disciplines (political science, geography, sociology, anthropology, and communications) to provide new insights into a growing trend in publicly engaged research and scholarship. Bridging Scholarship and Activism creatively redefine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Oslender, Ulrich (Editor ), Reiter, Bernd (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Transformations in higher education.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, Ulrich Oslender and Bernd Reiter; Part One. The Promises and Pitfalls of Collaborative Research; Of Academic Embeddedness: Communities of Choice and How to Make Sense of Activism and Research Abroad, Bernd Reiter; New Shapes of Revolution, Gustavo Esteva; The Accidental Activist Scholar: A Memoir on Reactive Boundary and Identity Work for Social Change within the Academy, Rob Benford; Can Development Bridge the Gap between Activism and Academia? Cristina Espinosa.
  • Leaving the Field: How to Write about Disappointment and Frustration in Collaborative Research, Ulrich OslenderInvisible Heroes, Eshe Lewis; Part Two. Negotiating Racialized and Gendered Positionalities; El Muntu en América, Manuel Zapata Olivella; Activism as History Making: The Collective and the Personal in Collaborative Research with the Process of Black Communities in Colombia, Arturo Escobar; Out of Bounds: Negotiating Researcher Positionality in Brazil, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman.
  • Between Soapboxes and Shadows: Activism, Theory, and the Politics of Life and Death in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Christen A. SmithState Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry; The Challenges Resulting from Combining Scientific Production and Social-Political Activism in the Brazilian Academy, Fernando Conceição; The Challenge of Doing Applied/Activist Anti-Racist Anthropology in Revolutionary Cuba, Gayle L. McGarrity; Conclusion, Ulrich Oslender and Bernd Reiter; About the Authors.