{"product_id":"9781611861471","title":"Bridging Scholarship and Activism : Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eBridging Scholarship and Activism\u003c\/i\u003e creatively redefines what constitutes activism without limiting it to a narrow range of practices. Acknowledging that the current conjuncture of neoliberal globalization has created constraints on as well as possibilities for activist scholarly engagement, the book argues that racism and its intersections with gender and class oppression are salient forces to be interrogated and confronted in the predicaments and struggles activist scholarship targets. The book’s ultimate goal is to create a decolonized and democratized forum in which activist scholars from the Global South converse and cross-fertilize ideas and projects with their counterparts from the United States and other North Atlantic metropolitan-based academy. The coeditors and contributors attempt to decenter hegemonic knowledge and to create some of the necessary (if not sufficient) conditions for a more pluriversal (rather than orthodox “universal”) context for producing enabling knowledge, without the naiveté and romanticism that has characterized earlier projects in critical and radical social science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction, \u003ci\u003eUlrich Oslender and Bernd Reiter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One. The Promises and Pitfalls of Collaborative Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOf Academic Embeddedness: Communities of Choice and How to Make Sense of Activism and Research Abroad, \u003ci\u003eBernd Reiter\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Shapes of Revolution, \u003ci\u003eGustavo Esteva\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Accidental Activist Scholar: A Memoir on Reactive Boundary and Identity Work for Social Change within the Academy, \u003ci\u003eRob Benford \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLeaving the Field: How to Write about Disappointment and Frustration in Collaborative Research, \u003ci\u003eUlrich Oslender\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvisible Heroes, \u003ci\u003eEshe Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two. Negotiating Racialized and Gendered Positionalities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEl Muntuen America, \u003ci\u003eManuel Zapata Olivella\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eActivism as History Making: The Collective and the Personal in Collaborative Research with the Process of Black Communities in Colombia, \u003ci\u003eArturo Escobar \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOut of Bounds: Negotiating Researcher Positionality in Brazil, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Hordge-Freeman\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween Soapboxes and Shadows: Activism, Theory, and the Politics of Life and Death in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, \u003ci\u003eChristen A. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eState Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment, \u003ci\u003eKeisha-Khan Y. Perry\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Challenges Resulting from Combining Scientific Production and Social-Political Activism in the Brazilian Academy, \u003ci\u003eFernando Conceição\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Challenge of Doing Applied\/Activist Anti-Racist Anthropology in Revolutionary Cuba, \u003ci\u003eGayle L. McGarrity\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion, \u003ci\u003eUlrich Oslender and Bernd Reiter\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031525769456,"sku":"9781611861471","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611861471_p0.jpg?v=1763846333","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611861471","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}