Bridging Scholarship and Activism - Reflections From the Frontlines of Collaborative Research

Informationen zum Autor Bernd Reiter is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of South Florida, where he has a joint appointment with the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean and the Department of Government and International Affairs. Ulrich Oslender is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University in Miami. Klappentext This timely book brings together activist scholars from a range of disciplines 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, with an ultimate goal of creating a decolonized and democratized forum for scholar activists worldwide. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bernd Oslender Reiter
• Assisted by: Ulrich Oslender (Editor), Bernd Reiter (Editor)
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.2014
• EAN: 9781611861471
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-147-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Transformations in Higher Educ; Transformations in Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories