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General topics: Discussions & reflections on research activism | Activist research outside the academy | Community & civic engagement | "Scholar activism"
Activist methods (discussed or applied): Archival activism | Art activism (➦ Art institution critique | Art workshhopping | Participatory creative arts) | Civil disobedience | Crowdsourced activism | Curriculum (re)design | Data activism | Feminist activism | Hacktivism | Marching | Music activism | Nonviolence | Performance activism | Situationism | Storytelling | Tactical media | Writing (including non-traditional forms) (➦ Activist fiction ➦ Anonymous writing ➦ Code switching (linguistic) ➦ Collective writing)
Research methods (discussed or applied): Action research | Case studies | Crowdsourced research | Digital methods | Discourse analysis | Empirical research | Fieldwork | Interviewing | Militant research | Participatory research (➦ Participant obserer research) | Qualitative research | Quantitative research | Research ethics (➦ Informed consent ➦ Institutional review boards [IRB]) | Social media analysis | Surveys
Theoretical methods (discussed or applied): Affect studies | Contact zone theory | Critical Race Theory | Critical institutionalism (➦ Art institution critique | Critical university studies) [see also Institution studies] | Disability studies | Feminist studies & theory | Interdisciplinarity | Intersectionality theory | Marxist theory | Performance theory | Postcolonial theory | Queer studies & theory | Science Technology Studies (STS)
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)
Movements: ACT UP |
Agrarian movements | Black Freedom Movement | Black Lives Matter | Civil Rights Movement | Countercultures (➦ Avant-garde | Mid 20th-Century counterculture | 1960s-1970s counterculture) | MeToo movement | Occupy movement | Take Back the Night
Actions (types of): Campaigns | Community engagement | Marches | Protests | Riots | Self defense | Social media actions | Student activism | Volunteerism
Events: Baltimore Uprising (2015) | COVID-19 | Ferguson| LA riots (➦ 1965 | 1992) | Vietnam War (➦ Vietnam War protests)
Initiatives: Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives
General topics: [TBD]
Citizenship, residency, migrant groups: Citizens | Immigrants | Migrants | Refugees | Undocumented residents
Economic groups: [TBD]
Professional & Occupational groups: (See also in this menu under "In Disciplines & Professions" > "Professions") Knowledge workers | Professionals | Veterans
Racial, ethnic & indigenous groups: Asian people (➦ Asian Americans ➦ Pacific Islanders) | BIPOC people | Black people (➦ Afircan Americans ➦ Black British) | Caribbean people | Caste groups | Indigenous people (➦ Australian Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples ➦ Maori ➦ Native Americans) | Latinx people (➦ Chicanx) | White people | [TBD]
Religious groups: [TBD]
Issues in HigherEd Research Activism: Academic freedom | Freedom of expression | Civic engagement | Scholar activism | Faculty activism | Student activism | Mentoring | Targeting & harassing of scholars
➧ Issues related to: Academic hiring and promotion (➦ Tenure) | Research & publication (➦ Citation practices) ➦ Peer reviewing practices) | Impact assessment (➦ Measurement & evaluation of activist research ➦ REF Research Excellence Framework)
➧ Issues related to: Teaching & Curricula (see also Curriculum (re)design) | Academic "service"
➧ Issues related to: HigherEd budgets | Public universities (➦ Land-grant universities) | Professional schools | Programs
HigherEd Personnel & Research/Activism:
➧ Administration
➧ Faculty (➦ Adjunct ➦ BIPOC [★ Black ★ Latinx] ➦ LGBTQ ➦ Women ➦ Tenure-line ➦ Tenured)
➧ Students (➦ BIPOC students ➦ Graduate students ➦ Undergraduate Students)
➧ Staff (non-instructional) | Campus police
➧ Administration
➧ Faculty (➦ Adjunct ➦ BIPOC [★ Black ★ Latinx] ➦ LGBTQ ➦ Women ➦ Tenure-line ➦ Tenured)
➧ Students (➦ BIPOC students ➦ Graduate students ➦ Undergraduate Students)
➧ Staff (non-instructional) | Campus police
HigherEd Policies Related to Research/Activism:
➧ Policies related to politics: Academic freedom | Freedom of expression on campus | Protest & activism actions | Political campaigns on campus | Disciplinary actions
➧ Personnel policies: Hiring, promotion & tenure | Documenting scholar-activism | Personnel case diversity statements
➧ Campus resources supporting activism
➧ Discussions & critiques of higher education policies above
➧ Policies related to politics: Academic freedom | Freedom of expression on campus | Protest & activism actions | Political campaigns on campus | Disciplinary actions
➧ Personnel policies: Hiring, promotion & tenure | Documenting scholar-activism | Personnel case diversity statements
➧ Campus resources supporting activism
➧ Discussions & critiques of higher education policies above
Issues in LowerEd Research Activism: Discipline | Preservice teaching | Teaching | Curriculum (re)design
LowerEd Personnel & Research/Activism: Administration | Students
Centers & Institutes | Coalitions | Collectives | Communities (➦ Community organizations) | Corporations | Grassroots | Initiatives | NGOs & non-profits (➦ Disabled people's organizations ➦ Social movement organizations (SMOs)) | Police | Professional Associations | Projects | Publishers
Governments (general): Governmental activism
Governments (national, state, local)
➧ U.K. Government(s): [TBD]
➧ U.S. Government(s): [TBD]
➧ U.K. Government(s): [TBD]
General topics: [TBD]
Arts (Creative & Performing Arts): Architecture | Art (➦ Digital arts ➦ Street art ➦ Textile art) | Music (➦ Ethnomusicology) | Performance studies | Theater
Humanities: Art history | Composition & Rhetoric (& Writing Studies) | Digital humanities | History (➦ History of activism) ➦ Public history | Literary studies (➦ English literary studies) | Film studies | Media studies | New Media studies (including Internet & social media studies) | Philosophy | Public humanities (➦ Public history (see also Organic intellectuals | Public intellectuals) | Religious studies | Science Technology Studies (STS)
Social Sciences: Anthropology & ethnography | Communication | Geography (➦ Human geography) | Global & international studies | Institution studies | Political science | Psychology (➦ Social psychology) | Sociology
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM): AI (artificial intelligence) | Computer science | Data science | Engineering (➦ In Silicon Valley) | Environmental sciences
Agriculture: Agrarian studies | Agro-ecological studies
Interdisciplinary Fields: Africana studies | Asian American studies | Black studies | Borderlands studies | Feminist studies & theory | Food studies | Indigenous studies | Race & ethnic studies
Professions: Architecture | Education studies | Journalism | Law (➦ Legal studies) | Library & archive studies | Social work | Urban studies & planning
"None, or All of the Above": Organic intellectuals | Public intellectuals
Borders [TBD] |
Seas: [TBD]
Continents & Geographical/Geopolitical Regions (see also Global Zones above): Africa | Americas (➦ Caribbean ➦ Central America ➦ North America ➦ South America) | Asia (➦ Eastern Asia ➦ Middle East (Western Asia) ➦ South Asia ➦ Southeastern Asia) | Australasia | Europe (➦ European Union ➦ Northern Europe ➦ Western Europe)
Nations (and their states, districts, provinces, etc.): ( see also International (& Transnational) ) | Argentina | Australia | Austria | Brazil | Bulgaria | Canada | Chile | China | France | Germany | India | Iraq | Israel | Italy | Jamaica | Japan | Malaysia | Mexico | Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | Philippines | Russia | South Africa | South Korea | New Zealand | Sweden | Thailand | Turkey | United Kingdom | United States (➦ Florida ➦ Michigan ➦ New Jersey ➦ [New York) | Venezuela | Vietnam
Cities (and city regions): Baltimore | Buenos Aires | Chicago | Detroit | Ferguson (Missouri) | Flint (Michigan) | Hong Kong | London | Los Angeles | Manchester | New York City (➦ Bronx) | Philadelphia | Silicon Valley
General topics: [TBD]
Articles (➦ in Journals ➦ in Magazines ➦ in Newspapers) |
Artworks (➦ Art installations) | Bibliographies | Blogs | Blog posts | Books (➦ Chapters) | Catalogs | Conferences | Conference proceedings | Datasets | Data stories | Encyclopedias | Exhibits | Fiction (work of) (➦ Novels) | Films | Infographics | Interviews | Journals (➦ Journal articles ➦ Journal issues) | Lectures | Maps | Newspaper articles | Obituaries | Opinion pieces | Pamphlets | Photography | Poetry (work of) | Policy statements | Radio broadcasts | Reports & Whitepapers | Social media (➦ Hashtags) | Syllabi | Theses (➦ Dissertations ➦ Master's theses ➦ Undergraduate theses) | Websites (➦ Website pages) | Zines
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Bayer, R. “AIDS, Ethics, and Activism: Institutional Encounters in the Epidemic’s First Decade.” In Society’s Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine, edited by Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby, and Harvey V. Fineberg, 458–76. National Academy Press, 1995. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK231965/. Cite
Blum, Paul Von. “Before and After Watts: Black Art in Los Angeles.” In Chapter 10. Before and After Watts: Black Art in Los Angeles, 243–65. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2010. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9780814790922.003.0014/html. Cite
Chang, Edward T. “America’s First Multietnic ‘Riots.’” In Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy, 431–40. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Cite
Cohen, Louis, Lawrence Manion, and Keith Morrison. “Action Research.” In Research Methods in Education, 8th ed. Routledge, 2017. Cite
Critical Art Ensemble. “Electronic Civil Disobedience.” In Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas, 7–32. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2001. http://critical-art.net/books/ecd/ecd2.pdf. Cite
Earhart, Amy E. “Can Information Be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, Manifold., 309–18. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e/section/cf0af04d-73e3-4738-98d9-74c1ae3534e5#ch18. Cite
Evans, Jeff, and Ludi Simpson. “The Radical Statistics Group: Using Statistics for Progressive Social Change.” Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation, 2019, 307–18. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0024. Cite
Gallon, Kim. “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, 2016:42–49. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/fa10e2e1-0c3d-4519-a958-d823aac989eb#ch04. Cite
Gitlin, Andrew. “The Shifting Terrain of Methdological Debates.” In Power and Method : Political Activism and Educational Research, 1–7. New York: Routledge, 1994. https://www.routledge.com/Power-and-Method-Political-Activism-and-Educational-Research/Gitlin/p/book/9780415906906#. Cite
Gray, Jonathan, and Liliana Bounegru. “What a Difference a Dataset Makes? Data Journalism and/as Data Activism.” In Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation, 365–74. Bristol: Policy Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447348214.003.0030. Cite
Green, Keisha. “Doing Double Dutch Methodology: Playing with the Practice of Participant Observer.” In Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE, 2014. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781544329611.n8. Cite
Harris, Tina M., Anna M. Dudney Deeb, and Alysen Wade. “Dear White People: Using Film as a Catalyst for Racial Activism against Institutional Racism in the College Classroom.” In Racialized Media, 283–306. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.18574/9781479807826-016. 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
Holton, Valerie, Jennifer Early, Meghan Gough, and Tracey Gendron. “Building a University Climate to Support Community-Engaged Research.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Community Engagement and Outreach, edited by Joseph A. Allen and Roni Reiter-Palmon, 1st ed., 378–98. Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108277693.021. Cite
Jeppesen, Sandra. “Research Ethics: Critical Reflections on Horizontal Media Activism Research Practices.” In Media Activist Research Ethics, 27–50. Springer, 2020. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-44389-4_2. Cite
Johnson, E. Patrick. “Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom.” In Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity, 219–56. Duke University Press, 2003. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11cw2rh. Cite
Johnson, Lindy L., Tobie Bass, and Matt Hicks. “Creating Critical Spaces for Youth Activists.” In Teaching towards Democracy with Postmodern and Popular Culture Texts, 37–58. Brill Sense, 2014. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6209-875-6_4. Cite
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
McGlotten, Shaka. “Black Data.” In No Tea, No Shade, edited by E. Patrick Johnson, 262–86. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373711-014. Cite
Mcpherson, Tara. “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? Or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2012, 139–60. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-88c11800-9446-469b-a3be-3fdb36bfbd1e/section/20df8acd-9ab9-4f35-8a5d-e91aa5f4a0ea. Cite
Montoya, Sarah. “Alive with Story: Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and Carrying Our Ancestors Home.” In Digital Mapping and Indigenous America, 9–16. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. Cite
Morales, Aurora Levins. “Certified Organic Intellectual.” In Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, 27–32. Duke University Press, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383284-004. Cite
Nabudere, Dani Wadada. “Research, Activism, and Knowledge Production.” In Engaging Contradictions, edited by Charles R. Hale, 1st ed., 62–87. Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pncnt.8. Cite
Perry, Keisha Khan J., and Joanne Rappaport. “Making a Case for Collaborative Research with Black and Indigenous Social Movements in Latin America.” In Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics, 30–48. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2014. https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1475370. Cite
Risam, Roopika. “Navigating the Global Digital Humanities: Insights from Black Feminism.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities, Manifold., 359–67. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled/section/4316ff92-bad0-45e8-8f09-90f493c6f564#ch29. Cite
Salomón, Amrah J. “Telling to Reclaim, Not to Sell: Resistance Narratives and the Marketing of Justice.” In Research Justice: Methdologies for Social Change, 185–98. Bristol; Chicago: Policy Press, 2015. Cite
Schormans, Ann Fudge, Heather Allan, Donavon O’Neil Allen, Christine Austin, Kareem Elbard, Kevin John Head, Tyler Henderson, et al. “Research as Activism?: Perspectives of People Labelled/with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Engaged in Inclusive Research and Knowledge Co-Production.” In The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism, 1st ed., 354–68. Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351165082-29. Cite
Simiti, Marilena, ed. “The Volatility of Urban Riots.” In Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State, 133–48. London: Routledge, 2012. Cite
Smith-Cavros, Eileen, and Patricia Widener. “In Our Own Backyard: Navigating Research and Activism in Southeast Florida.” In Anthropology and Activism. Routledge, 2020. Cite
Srivastava, Neelam. “The Travels of the Organic Intellectual: The Black Colonized Intellectual in George Padmore and Frantz Fanon.” In The Postcolonial Gramsci. Routledge, 2011. Cite
Torre, María Elena, Michelle Fine, Brett G. Stoudt, and Madeline Fox. “Critical Participatory Action Research as Public Science.” In APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology, Vol 2: Research Designs: Quantitative, Qualitative, Neuropsychological, and Biological., edited by Harris Cooper, Paul M. Camic, Debra L. Long, A. T. Panter, David Rindskopf, and Kenneth J. Sher, 171–84. Washington: American Psychological Association, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1037/13620-011. Cite
Whyte, William Foote. “Participant Observer Research: An Activist Role - SAGE Research Methods.” In Participatory Action Research. Newberry Park, California: SAGE, 1991. https://methods.sagepub.com/book/participatory-action-research/n11.xml. Cite