scholarly journals Research, action, activism: Critical solidarities & multi-scalar powers

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Celina Su
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
Action Network ◽  
Research Action ◽  
Multiple Ways Of Knowing

In this essay, I draw upon my work with the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN) to argue for several key principles in research for social justice: reflexivity, especially regarding our work in fraught academic institutions, and engaging multiple ways of knowing. These principles are essential to forming critical solidarities across constituencies, to recognizing and addressing issues of power at multiple scales—local, national, global, and to imagining ourselves as protagonists in our collective futures.

scholarly journals Collaborative research and multi-issue movement building for educational justice: Reflections on the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN)

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Mark R. Warren ◽  
Ronald David Glass
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Educational Justice ◽  
National Network ◽  
Urban Research ◽  
Action Network ◽  
Public Research Universities

Two long-time scholar-activists reflect on a distinctive approach to research that they call collaborative research for justice, research that is conducted with community leaders and education activists to advance equity and social justice. They argue that by linking research directly with action this kind of research has the power to speak directly to the current crises not only in education, but also in the other institutions of civil society. Drawing on decades of experience in public research universities, local community based organizations, inter/national disciplinary research organizations, and distributed informal networks of engaged scholars, social justice activists, and community leaders, they reflect specifically on the more recent formation of the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN), a national network of people enacting a variety of forms of collaborative research for justice, now with more than 1500 members. They outline lessons that might contribute to building the multi-issue movement for educational justice that they believe is required to transform public schools to make them serve the needs of the most disadvantaged, aggrieved, and inequitably treated communities. In its short history URBAN has already impacted the academy through the gatherings and meetings it has hosted as well as through a rigorous publishing agenda, including a special issue of EPAA in which this article appears. 

Researching on the edge: emancipatory praxis for social justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 2697-2721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Hutton ◽  
Teresa Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Emancipatory Praxis

Purpose This paper aims to provoke a conversation in marketing scholarship about the overlooked political nature of doing research, particularly for those who research issues of social (in)justice. It suggests a paradigmatic shift in how researchers might view and operationalise social justice work in marketing. Emancipatory praxis framework offers scholars an alternative way to think about the methodology, design and politics of researching issues of social relevance. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper drawing on critical theory to argue for a new methodological shift towards emancipatory praxis. Findings As social justice research involves a dialectical relationship between crises and critique, the concept of emancipation acts as a methodological catalyst for furthering debate about social (in)justice in marketing. This paper identifies a set of methodological troubles and challenges that may disrupt the boundaries of knowledge-making. A set of methodological responses to these issues illustrating how emancipatory research facilitates social action is outlined. Research limitations/implications Emancipatory praxis offers marketing scholars an alternative methodological direction in the hope that more impactful and useful ways of knowing can emerge. Practical implications The paper is intended to change the ways that researchers work in practical and concrete terms on issues of social (in)justice. Social implications Although this paper is theoretical, it argues for an alternative methodological approach to research that reorients researchers towards a politicised praxis with emancipatory relevancy. Originality/value Emancipatory praxis offers a new openly politicised methodological alternative for addressing problems of social relevance in marketing. As a continuous political and emancipatory task for researchers, social justice research involves empirical encounters with politics, advocacy and democratic participation, where equality is the methodological starting point for research design and decisions as much as it is the end goal.

scholarly journals Transpersonal Art: A Conversation with Artist Judy Schavrien

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Dorit Netzer ◽  
Judy Schavrien
Keyword(s):  
Transpersonal Psychology ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Multiple Ways Of Knowing

This article presents an excerpt from an interview with Judy Schavrien, a transpersonal psychology scholar, poet, and artist. In the course of this dialogue, Schavrien uncovers the philosophical and psychosocial underpinnings for the artworks included in her books Alice at the Rabbithole Café and Everything Voluptuous: The Love Songs 1970-2014. The collegial conversation, unstructured in advance yet guided by the art it explores, inquires into the following: the role of the transpersonal artist-scholar; the meaning Schavrien attributes to her subject matter; the environments and people that act as catalysts; the relevance of her choice of media and process; and, finally, whether the aims in her art and research converge. It becomes clear that, for Schavrien, it is not enough for artists to be mere custodians of their culture. Their role, in her view, is to challenge conventions, cry out, provoke thought, engage multiple ways of knowing, and offer alternatives that push society forward. Her research intends the same. Both Schavrien and the interviewer perceive a participatory element in her art, her research, and the approach taken in this article that explores them.

Braided Lives: Multiple ways of knowing, flowing in and out of knowledge communities

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayle Curtis ◽  
Donna Reid ◽  
Michaelann Kelley ◽  
Peter T. Martindell ◽  
Cheryl J. Craig
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Multiple Ways Of Knowing
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