Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship (Global, Area, and International Archive) - Softcover

Hale, Charles R. R.; Calhoun, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520098617 ISBN 13: 9780520098619

Publisher: University of California Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 Martínez, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Dani Nabudere, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Jemima Pierre, Laura Pulido, Shannon Speed, Shirley Suet-ling Tang, João Vargas

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520098617
• ISBN 13: 9780520098619
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416