Bridging scholarship and activism : reflections from the frontlines of collaborative research / / edited by Bernd Reiter and Ulrich Oslender

• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.484
• Soggetto topico: Social movements; Political activists; Learning and scholarship
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): OslenderUlrich; ReiterBernd
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Oslender -- Invisible heroes / Eshe Lewis -- El muntu en America = Our people in America / Manuel Zapata Olivella ; translation by Jonathan Tittler -- 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. Smith -- State 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 redefines what constitutes activism without limiting it to a narrow range of practices. Acknowledging that the current conjuncture of neoliberal globalization has created constraints on as well as possibilities for activist scholarly engagement, the book argues that racism and its intersections with gender
• Titolo autorizzato: Bridging scholarship and activism
• ISBN: 1-60917-434-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910467150803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transformations in higher education.