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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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Morán Neches, Lorena, and Julio Rodríguez Suárez. “Investigación-acción feminista: desafiando dicotomías entre activismo y academia / Feminist Action-research: Questioning Dichotomies Between Activism and Academia,” 2022, 91–113. https://doi.org/10.6035/asparkia.6080. Cite
Ordem, Eser. “Participatory Action Research in a Listening-Speaking Class in Second Language Teaching: Towards a Critical Syllabus.” Educational Action Research ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print (2021): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2021.1898431. Cite
Fernandez Hasan, Valeria. “Activismo y academia: la conversación feminista.” Estudios de filosofía práctica e historia de las ideas 22, no. 1 (2020): 1–13. http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-94902020000100004&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=es. Cite
Clark, J. Spencer, Suzanne Porath, Julie Thiele, and Morgan Jobe. Action Research. Kansas State University: New Prairie Press, 2020. https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/34. Cite
Shayne, Julie, and Jessica Manfredi. “Reflections on Activist Scholarship in the Trump-Bolsonaro Era: Dual Hemisphere Hate Transforms Intellectual Praxis into Political Imperative.” Revista CS, no. 29 (2019): 19–46. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i29.3479. Cite
Quatrin-Casarin, Eduarda, Mariana Selister-Gomes, and Giovana Duarte. “O conhecimento situado e a pesquisa-ação como metodologias feministas e decoloniais: um estudo bibliométrico / ‘O conhecimento situado e a pesquisa-ação como metodologias feministas e decoloniais: um estudo bibliométrico.’” Revista CS, no. 29 (2019): 47–72. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=476362529003. Cite
Fine, Michelle, and María Elena Torre. “Critical Participatory Action Research: A Feminist Project for Validity and Solidarity.” Psychology of Women Quarterly 43, no. 4 (2019): 433–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684319865255. Cite
Clare, Nick. “Militantly ‘Studying up’? (Ab)Using Whiteness for Oppositional Research.” Area 49, no. 3 (2017): 377–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12326. Cite
Cohen, Louis, Lawrence Manion, and Keith Morrison. “Action Research.” In Research Methods in Education, 8th ed. Routledge, 2017. Cite
Manzano-Arrondo, Vicente. “Activismo frente a norma: ¿quién salva a la universidad?” RIDAS. Revista Iberoamericana de Aprendizaje-Servicio, no. 1 (2015): 28–55. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/RIDAS/article/view/ridas2015.1.3. Cite
Rodríguez Garavito, César A, ed. Human Rights in Minefields: Extractive Economies, Environmental Conflicts, and Social Justice in the Global South. Bogota, Colombia: Editorial DeJusticia, 2015. 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
Stringer, Ernest T. Action Research. Fourth edition. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE, 2014. Cite
Biglia, Barbara. “Corporeizando la epistemología feminista: investigación activista feminista.” Subjetivación femenina: investigación, estrategias y dispositivos críticos, no. 1 (2012): 63–84. https://www.academia.edu/3197857/Corporeizando_la_epistemolog%C3%ADa_feminista_investigaci%C3%B3n_activista_feminista. 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
Torre, María Elena, and Jennifer Ayala. “Envisioning Participatory Action Research Entremundos.” Feminism & Psychology 19, no. 3 (2009): 387–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353509105630. Cite
Fine, Michelle. “Postcards from Metro America: Reflections on Youth Participatory Action Research for Urban Justice.” The Urban Review 41, no. 1 (2009): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-008-0099-5. Cite
Torre, María Elena. “Participatory Action Research and Critical Race Theory: Fueling Spaces for Nos-Otras to Research.” The Urban Review 41, no. 1 (2009): 106–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11256-008-0097-7. Cite
Johnson, Andrew P. A Short Guide to Action Research. 3rd ed. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2008. Cite
Somekh, Bridget. Action Research: A Methodology for Change and Development. Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006. Cite
Matta, Fati. Nociones Comunes. Experiencias y Ensayos Entre Investigación y Militancia. Traficantes de sueños. Madrid, 2004. https://traficantes.net/sites/default/files/pdfs/Nociones%20comunes-TdS.pdf. Cite
Avison, David E., Francis Lau, Michael D. Myers, and Peter Axel Nielsen. “Action Research.” Communications of the ACM 42, no. 1 (1999): 94–97. https://doi.org/10.1145/291469.291479. Cite