Engaging contradictions
Subtitle: theory, politics, and methods of activist scholarship
By: edited by Charles R. Hale.
Contributors: Hale, Charles R., 1957-
Series: Global, area, and international archive -- 6
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520098619
Subjects: Political activists; Social action; Scholars
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forgotten places and the seeds of grassroots planning / Ruth Wilson Gilmore; title: Research, activism, and knowledge production / Dani Wadada Nabudere; title: Breaking the chains and steering the ship : how activism can help change teaching and scholarship / George Lipsitz; title: Activist groundings or groundings for activism? :  the study of racialization as a site of political engagement / Jemima Pierre; title: Globalizing scholar activism : opportunities and dilemmas through a feminist lens / Jennifer Bickham Mendez; title: Activist scholarship : limits and possibilities in times of black genocide / João H. Costa Vargas; title: Making violence visible : an activist anthropological approach to women's rights investigation / Samuel Martínez; title: Forged in dialogue : toward a critically engaged activist research / Shannon Speed; title: Community-centered research as knowledge/capacity building in immigrant and refugee communities / Shirley Suet-ling Tang; title: Theorizing and practicing democratic community economics : engaged scholarship, economic justice, and the academy / Jessica Gordon Nembhard; title: Crouching activists, hidden scholars : reflections on research and development with students and communities in Asian American studies / Peter Nien-chu Kiang; title: Theoretical research, applied research, and action research : the deinstitutionalization of activist research / Davydd J. Greenwood; title: FAQs : frequently (un)asked questions about being a scholar activist / Laura Pulido; title: Afterword : activist scholars or radical subjects? / by Joy James and Edmund T. Gordon.