Engaging contradictions

Engaging contradictions theory, politics, and methods of activist scholarship / [electronic resource] : edited by Charles R. Hale. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. - xxvi, 390 p. - Global, area, and international archive . - Global, area, and international archive. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forgotten places and the seeds of grassroots planning / Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- Research, activism, and knowledge production / Dani Wadada Nabudere -- Breaking the chains and steering the ship : how activism can help change teaching and scholarship / George Lipsitz -- Activist groundings or groundings for activism? : the study of racialization as a site of political engagement / Jemima Pierre -- Globalizing scholar activism : opportunities and dilemmas through a feminist lens / Jennifer Bickham Mendez -- Activist scholarship : limits and possibilities in times of black genocide / João H. Costa Vargas -- Making violence visible : an activist anthropological approach to women's rights investigation / Samuel Martínez -- Forged in dialogue : toward a critically engaged activist research / Shannon Speed -- Community-centered research as knowledge/capacity building in immigrant and refugee communities / Shirley Suet-ling Tang -- Theorizing and practicing democratic community economics : engaged scholarship, economic justice, and the academy / Jessica Gordon Nembhard -- Crouching activists, hidden scholars : reflections on research and development with students and communities in Asian American studies / Peter Nien-chu Kiang -- Theoretical research, applied research, and action research : the deinstitutionalization of activist research / Davydd J. Greenwood -- 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.


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