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General topics: Capitalism | Development (and Alternative development) | Diversity | Globalization | Neoliberalism (➦ Corporatization of the university) | Social justice
Note: The above are some topics that research activists tend to discuss as general concepts related to causes. But these general topics do not cover all specific causes and issues actually addressed (for which see below).
Specific causes & issues: Ageism | AI Bias | AIDS | Antiracism (see also Racism) | Antiwar | Apartheid | Caste antidiscrimination | Censorship | Childcare | Class discrimination | Decolonization | Digital justice | Disability rights | Drugs | Education reform (➦ In HigherEd) | Economic Inequality | Environment (➦ Biodiversity ➦ Climate change ➦ Environmental justice) | Feminist activism | Food justice (➦ Food sovereignty | Slow food) | Freedom of speech | Gender equality (➦ Reproductive labor [See also Womens rights]) | Health care reform (➦ Health advocacy) | Heteronormativity (➦ Toxic masculinity) | Housing & zoning issues (➦ Gentrification ➦ Houselessness (including homelessness) ➦ Housing reform ➦ Skidrow) | Human rights | Indigenous rights | Information access | Infrastructure | Labor activism (➦ Adjunct instructors | Anti-work | Care work | Domestic work | Feminized labor | Reproductive labor | Sex work | Unionization) | Land politics | Language activism (➦ Linguistic discrimination | Linguistic diversity) | Legal system (➦ Criminal justice system ➦ Police reform ➦ Prison abolition) | Medical system reform | Mental health | Microaggressions | Population movement (➦ Forced displacement ★ Migration ➦ Immigration ★ Immigration activism ★ Undocumented residents rights) | Prison change (➦ Prison abolition ➦ Prison reform) | Racism (see also Antiracism) | Reproductive justice (➦ Abortion | Reproductive labor) | Right-wing activism | Surveillance | Trade treaties | Water justice | Women's rights (➦ Feminicide ➦ Violence against women)

General topics: [TBD]
Age & generation groups: Children | Youth | Elderly | Generations (➦ [TBD])
Citizenship, residency, migrant groups: Citizens | Immigrants | Migrants | Refugees | Undocumented residents
Gender groups: LGBTQ | Men | Women
Economic groups: [TBD]
Professional & Occupational groups: (See also in this menu under "In Disciplines & Professions" > "Professions") Knowledge workers | Professionals | Veterans
Religious groups: [TBD]

Issues in LowerEd Research Activism: Discipline | Preservice teaching | Teaching | Curriculum (re)design
LowerEd Personnel & Research/Activism: Administration | Students

General topics: [TBD]
Arts (Creative & Performing Arts): Architecture | Art (➦ Digital arts ➦ Street art ➦ Textile art) | Music (➦ Ethnomusicology) | Performance studies | Theater
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM): AI (artificial intelligence) | Computer science | Data science | Engineering (➦ In Silicon Valley) | Environmental sciences
"None, or All of the Above": Organic intellectuals | Public intellectuals

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How does research act on urgent social, cultural, political, environmental and other problems? In turn, how does activism alter the aims, participants, methods, and institutions of research?

Scholar activism has been discussed and theorized since the late 20th century. But we call our bibliography “Research + Activism” because the research that complements activism today extends beyond academic scholarship to activist investigation by many other actors—including community organizations, NGOs, journalism organizations, artists, and others.
Why a bibliography? The instrument we choose to survey research + activism is an online, public bibliography. Think of it as an observational tool like a telescope. Making a bibliography for a rapidly evolving area is exciting because it requires both basic research (sweeping the lens across the sky to see what is out there) and high-level synthetic thought (creating a conceptual map [see our Tagging Scheme]). The conceptual map represented by a well-done, public bibliography helps those doing research + activism share goals, resources, methods, and overview.
Our Research + Activism Bibliography began as part of the UC Santa Barbara English Department’s Antiracism Initiative in 2020 (part of the UCSB Humanities & Fine Arts Division’s Racial Justice Action Plan). We know that our bibliography cannot be “complete.” We add in areas that are missing or thin as they come to our attention. And we want to be up front about the fact that deciding what to include is a matter of judgment. Principles of scope (and other principles) guide us. But we know we can be wrong or unaware in many areas outside our fields of expertise; and we know how much lies in undecidable grey zones. Our aim is a scouting report in which a good set of examples from different parts of the landscape of research + activism is valuable even if we can’t vouch for an equal, wide survey of everything.
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Kim, Nan. “Commemorative Witness: 'Gwangju in 1980’ and Unresolved Transitional Justice in Twenty-First Century South Korea.” In Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia, 15:318–29. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon / New York, NY: Routledge, 2023. https://apjjf.org/2017/14/Kim.html. Cite
Fisher, Daniel. “A Typology of the Publicly Engaged Humanities.” Humanities for All (from National Humanities Alliance), n. d. https://humanitiesforall.org/essays/five-types-of-publicly-engaged-humanities-work-in-u-s-higher-education. Cite
Fisher, Daniel. “Goals of the Publicly Engaged Humanities.” Humanities for All (from National Humanities Alliance), n. d. https://humanitiesforall.org/essays/goals-of-the-publicly-engaged-humanities. Cite
National Humanities Alliance. “Humanities for All,” 2024. https://humanitiesforall.org. Cite
Kim, Nan. “Candlelight and the Yellow Ribbon: Catalyzing Re-Democratization in South Korea.” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15, no. 14.5 (2017). https://apjjf.org/2017/14/Kim.html. Cite
Galantowicz, Sorrel. “Understanding K-Pop Twitter as a Site of Transnational Social Media Activism (Honors Thesis in the Department of Global Studies).” University of Vermont, 2021. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/castheses/104. Cite
Jung, Sun. “Fan Activism, Cybervigilantism, and Othering Mechanisms in K-Pop Fandom.” Transformative Works and Cultures 10 (June 15, 2012). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2012.0300. Cite
Gan, Dorcas. “K-Pop Activism: A Potent Political Force.” FULCRUM, 2021. https://fulcrum.sg/k-pop-activism-a-potent-political-force/. Cite
Suh, Judy. “K‐Pop Culture in the United States: Protest Contexts and Practices.” The Journal of Popular Culture 55, no. 2 (2022): 292–312. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13111. Cite
Van Buren, Kathleen J. “Applied Ethnomusicology and HIV and AIDS: Responsibility, Ability, and Action.” Ethnomusicology 54, no. 2 (2010): 202–23. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.54.2.0202. Cite
Laes, Tuulikki, and Patrick Schmidt. “Activism within Music Education: Working towards Inclusion and Policy Change in the Finnish Music School Context.” British Journal of Music Education 33, no. 1 (2016): 5–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265051715000224. Cite
Kodish, Debora. “Envisioning Folklore Activism.” The Journal of American Folklore 124, no. 491 (2011): 31–60. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.124.491.0031. Cite
Hayes, Eileen M. “Reconaissance: Entering a Music Festival Scene.” In Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women’s Music, 32–45. University of Illinois Press, 2010. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xchf2. Cite
Ahlawat, Munish, Piyush Sharma, and Prashant Kumar Gautam. “Slow Food and Tourism Development: A Case Study of Slow Food Tourism in Uttarakhand, India.” Geo Journal of Tourism and Geosites 26, no. 3 (2019): 751–60. https://doi.org/10.30892/gtg.26306-394. Cite
Abele, Frances, and Chris Southcott. Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada’s Northern Social Economy. University of Alberta, 2016. Cite
Michael Hames-García. “What’s After Queer Theory? Queer Ethnic and Indigenous Studies.” Feminist Studies 39, no. 2 (2013): 384–404. https://doi.org/10.1353/fem.2013.0062. Cite
The University of Chicago. “Disciplinary System for Disruptive Conduct | Student Manual | The University of Chicago.” The University of Chicago | University Policies and Regulations, 2020. https://studentmanual.uchicago.edu/student-life-conduct/university-disciplinary-systems/disciplinary-system-for-disruptive-conduct/. Cite
The University of Chicago. “Protests and Demonstrations Policy | Student Manual | The University of Chicago.” The University of Chicago | University Policies and Regulations. Accessed September 1, 2022. https://studentmanual.uchicago.edu/student-life-conduct/protests-and-demonstrations-policy/. Cite
Occidental College. “Right to Dissent and Demonstration Policy.” Occidental College, 2021. https://www.oxy.edu/student-handbook/general-college-policies/right-dissent-and-demonstration-policy. Cite
Kenyon College. “Policy on Protests and Demonstrations.” Kenyon College, 2019. https://www.kenyon.edu/offices-and-services/office-of-human-resources/policies-handbooks/staff-handbook-2/other-policies/policy-on-protests-and-demonstrations/. Cite