Bridging scholarship and activism
Subtitle: reflections from the frontlines of collaborative research
By: edited by Bernd Reiter and Ulrich Oslender
Series: Transformations in higher education : the scholarship of engagement; Transformations in higher education
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781611861471; 9781609174347
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; Political activists; Social movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Of academic embeddedness : communities of choice and how to make sense of activism and research abroad / Bernd Reiter; title: New shapes of revolution / Gustavo Esteva; title: The accidental activist scholar : a memoir on reactive boundary and identity work for social change within the academy / Rob Benford; title: Can development bridge the gap between activism and academia? / Cristina Espinosa; title: Leaving the field : how to write about disappointment and frustration in collaborative research / Ulrich Oslender; title: Invisible heroes / Eshe Lewis; title: El muntu en América = Our people in America / Manuel Zapata Olivella ; translation by Jonathan Tittler; title: Activism as history making : the collective and the personal in collaborative research with the process of Black communities in Colombia / Arturo Escobar; title: Out of bounds : negotiating researcher positionality in Brazil / Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman; title: Between soapboxes and shadows : activism, theory, and the politics of life and death in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil / Christen A. Smith; title: State violence and the ethnographic encounter : feminist research and racial embodiment / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry; title: The challenges resulting from combining scientific production and social-political activism in the Brazilian academy / Fernando Conceição; title: The challenge of doing applied/activist anti-racist anthropology in revolutionary Cuba / Gayle L. McGarrity.