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Reimagining Academic Activism Learning From Feminist Anti-Violence Activists.
Based on deep ethnographic research, this book explores new practices and ideas about activism in the fight against social inequality. The book is both about feminist activists and is an act of feminist activism, with the author's experiences as a volunteer ethnographer in New Zealand sitting a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM
Bristol University Press
2021.
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| Colección: | Organizations and activism
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Series page
- Reimagining Academic Activism: Learning from Feminist Anti-Violence Activists
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Preface
- Part I The Academic/Activist
- 1 Setting Out
- Setting out
- Settling in
- 2 Unsettling the In/Out
- (Re)settling in and out
- Into the field(s)
- Into the feminist anti-violence movement
- Seeking new directions
- Part II Ties That Bind
- Ties That Break
- 3 Outside of Ourselves
- A familiar tale of the community sector
- History and contribution: community spirit
- Colliding with the market: the impacts of neoliberalism
- Dissolving community spirit and voice?
- The familiar tale: the only frame?
- Alternative understandings
- alternative organizations
- On emotion and organizing
- Alternative organizing, emotion, and the community sector
- 4 Passionate, Sad, Angry People
- Ties that bind: emotional attachments
- Ties that break: being beside oneself
- Redrawing the boundaries: emotion, activism, and academia
- Part III Vulnerable Bodies
- 5 Gendered Bodies
- The body, identity, and violence
- In the lunchroom: the body and gender identity
- 6 LGBT+ Bodies
- 7 Radically Unsettled Bodies
- Vulnerability, academia, and anti-violence activism
- Part IV A Story Like Mine
- 8 An Account of Ourselves
- Activist identities in organizations
- A micro-political approach to activist identity in the community context
- Giving an account of feminist activist identities
- Jen
- Tia
- Kimberley
- Ava
- Evelyn
- Emily
- 9 Through Difference
- At the intersection of self and organized activism: competing claims for legitimacy
- Feminist activism within the collective
- Weaving together the personal and political: giving an account of the feminist activist
- The micro-politics of academia, activism, and storytelling
- Conclusion: Our Words Must Spill
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover