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Informationen zum Autor Charles R. Hale is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. For 2006-7! he is President of the Latin American Studies Association. Klappentext Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy! with its demands for rigor and objectivity! and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly into the process of knowledge production. What ethical! political! and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume! leading scholar-activists map the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet. "Contributors: " Ruth Wilson Gilmore! Edmund T. Gordon! Davydd Greenwood! Joy James! Peter Nien-chu Kiang! George Lipsitz! Samuel Martinez! Jennifer Bickham Mendez! Dani Nabudere! Jessica Gordon Nembhard! Jemima Pierre! Laura Pulido! Shannon Speed! Shirley Suet-ling Tang! Joao Vargas Zusammenfassung Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. What ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? This work maps the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Resources Foreword, by Craig Calhoun Introduction Charles R. Hale PART I. MAPPING THE TERRAIN 1. Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning Ruth Wilson Gilmore 2. Research, Activism, and Knowledge Production Dani Wadada Nabudere 3. Breaking the Chains and Steering the Ship: How Activism Can Help Change Teaching and Scholarship George Lipsitz PART II. TROUBLING THE TERMS 4. Activist Groundings or Groundings for Activism? The Study of Racialization as a Site of Political Engagement Jemima Pierre 5. Globalizing Scholar Activism: Opportunities and Dilemmas through a Feminist Lens Jennifer Bickham Mendez 6. Activist Scholarship: Limits and Possibilities in Times of Black Genocide João H. Costa Vargas 7. Making Violence Visible: An Activist Anthropological Approach to Women’s Rights Investigation Samuel Martínez PART III. PUTTING ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP TO WORK 8. Forged in Dialogue: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research Shannon Speed 9. Community-Centered Research as Knowledge/Capacity Building in Immigrant and Refugee Communities Shirley Suet-ling Tang 10. Theorizing and Practicing Democratic Community Economics: Engaged Scholarship, Economic Justice, and the Academy Jessica Gordon Nembhard PART IV. MAKING OURSELVES AT HOME 11. Crouching Activists, Hidden Scholars: Reflections on Research and Development with Students and Communities in Asian American Studies Peter Nien-chu Kiang 12. Theoretical Research, Applied Research, and Action Research: The Deinstitutionalization of Activist Research Davydd J. Greenwood 13. FAQs: Frequently (Un)Asked Questions about Being a Scholar Activist Laura Pulido Afterword: Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects? by Joy James and Edmund T. Gordon Contributors Index ...
