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It is only fair to begin with an admission that a few years ago I would have regarded the title of this paper as an impossible self-contradiction. Scholarship was one concept; activism another. In those days, the two concepts appeared to me to be incompatible. One could, of course, expect to encounter activists who had been scholars, or who had at least received scholarly training; but one would not expect to find a scholar who was an activist at the same time. In the simplest and most general terms, scholarship implied withdrawal, and activism meant involvement. This, at least, was the tradition with which I was familiar. True, there was such a thing as it applied scholarship, but this applied to subjects with which I was not very familiar, nor was I very comfortable with the concept. It seemed to me that the scholar who was overly concerned with the application of his scholarship was not a true scholar and that he stood in danger of compromising his scholarly objectivity and integrity. Obviously, this was the point of view of a rather standard traditionalist, trained in a study of government which had deep roots in the orthodoxy of the humanities and – in my case — lesser roots in the social sciences, which in my student days still seemed more social than scientific.

1 p. A typed, photocopied list (partially illegible) of episodes of student unrest and activism at campuses across the country.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A New Take on an Old Term: Operationalizing the Diaspora Concept -- 2. An Exploration of the Relevant Literature -- 3. Still Waters: Understanding the Political Economy of the 1920s -- 4. Home Dock: The United States and the BSL -- 5. Charting the Black Atlantic: The UNIA and Its Location in African American Politics -- 6. Shipping Politics: The Case of the Black Star Line -- 7. Stormy Seas: Government Obstruction of BSL Transnational Goals -- 8. Marooned: The Rise and Fall of the Black Star Line -- 9. Clear Waters: Implications for the Study of Diasporas -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: AIDS Activism and Legitimation Crises -- 2 Against Science and the Stigmatization of the "At-Risk" Body -- 3 Against Pharma and the Intellectual Propertization of Life -- 4 Against Governance and the Oligopolization of Power -- 5 Against Community and the Expertization of Activism -- 6 Conclusion: Knowledge and Inclusion in Global Governance -- Appendix: List of Interviewees -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.