Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship

摘要: Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, direct engagement social activism. Some advocate on behalf of communities they study; others incorporate knowledge leadership their informants directly into process production. What ethical, political, practical tensions arise course such work? In this wide-ranging multidisciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists map terrain which political academic meet. The contributors are: 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.