Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research
In: Transformations in Higher Education
In: Transformations in Higher Education Ser
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction, Ulrich Oslender and Bernd Reiter -- Part One. The Promises and Pitfalls of Collaborative Research -- Of Academic Embeddedness: Communities of Choice and How to Make Sense of Activism and Research Abroad, Bernd Reiter -- New Shapes of Revolution, Gustavo Esteva -- The Accidental Activist Scholar: A Memoir on Reactive Boundary and Identity Work for Social Change within the Academy, Rob Benford -- Can Development Bridge the Gap between Activism and Academia? Cristina Espinosa -- Leaving the Field: How to Write about Disappointment and Frustration in Collaborative Research, Ulrich Oslender -- Invisible Heroes, Eshe Lewis -- Part Two. Negotiating Racialized and Gendered Positionalities -- El Muntu en América, Manuel Zapata Olivella -- Activism as History Making: The Collective and the Personal in Collaborative Research with the Process of Black Communities in Colombia, Arturo Escobar -- Out of Bounds: Negotiating Researcher Positionality in Brazil, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman -- Between Soapboxes and Shadows: Activism, Theory, and the Politics of Life and Death in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Christen A. Smith -- State Violence and the Ethnographic Encounter: Feminist Research and Racial Embodiment, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry -- The Challenges Resulting from Combining Scientific Production and Social-Political Activism in the Brazilian Academy, Fernando Conceição -- The Challenge of Doing Applied/Activist Anti-Racist Anthropology in Revolutionary Cuba, Gayle L. McGarrity -- Conclusion, Ulrich Oslender and Bernd Reiter -- About the Authors.