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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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Klassen, Shamika, and Casey Fiesler. “‘This Isn’t Your Data, Friend’: Black Twitter as a Case Study on Research Ethics for Public Data.” Social Media + Society 8, no. 4 (2022): 205630512211443. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221144317. Cite
Castro Sánchez, Ana María. “Implicaciones teóricas, políticas y metodológicas de la investigación activista feminista.” Empiria: Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales, no. 50 (2021): 67–89. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7847908. Cite
Johnston, Krista, and Christiana MacDougall. “Enacting Feminist Methodologies in Research Toward Reproductive Justice.” International Journal of Qualitative Methods 20 (2021): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211016157. Cite
Alexander, William L., E. Christian Wells, Martha Lincoln, Brittany Y. Davis, and Peter C. Little. “Environmental Justice Ethnography in the Classroom: Teaching Activism, Inspiring Involvement.” Human Organization 80, no. 1 (2021): 37–48. https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525-80.1.37. Cite
Scott, Karen A. “The Rise of Black Feminist Intellectual Thought and Political Activism in Perinatal Quality Improvement: A Righteous Rage about Racism, Resistance, Resilience, and Rigor.” Feminist Anthropology (Hoboken, N.J.) 2, no. 1 (2021): 155–60. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12045. Cite
Rondini, Ashley C., and Rachel H. Kowalsky. “‘First Do No Harm’: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Mesolevel Structural Racism, and Medicine’s Epistemological Reckoning.” Social Science & Medicine 279 (2021): 113968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113968. Cite
Crooks, Natasha, Geri Donenberg, and Alicia Matthews. “Ethics of Research at the Intersection of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: A Call to Action.” Journal of Medical Ethics 47, no. 4 (2021): 205–7. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-107054. Cite
Green, Jessica F. “Less Talk, More Walk: Why Climate Change Demands Activism in the Academy.” Daedalus 149, no. 4 (2020): 151–62. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01824. 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
Schroering, Caitlin. “Resistance and Knowledge Production: Social Movements as Producers of Theory and Praxis.” Revista CS, no. 29 (2019): 73–102. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i29.3181. Cite
Lee, Rebekah. “Art, Activism and the Academy: Productive Tensions and the Next Generation of HIV/AIDS Research in South Africa.” Journal of Southern African Studies 45, no. 1 (2019): 113–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2019.1559542. Cite
Nguyen, Xuan Thuy, Deborah Stienstra, Marnina Gonick, Huyen Do, and Nhung Huynh. “Unsettling Research versus Activism: How Might Critical Disability Studies Disrupt Traditional Research Boundaries?” Disability & Society 34, no. 7–8 (2019): 1042–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1613961. Cite
Greenhill, Pauline, and Alison Marshall. “Racism and Denial of Racism: Dealing with the Academy and the Field.” The Journal of American Folklore 129, no. 512 (2016): 203–24. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.129.512.0203. Cite
Patton, Lori D. “Disrupting Postsecondary Prose: Toward a Critical Race Theory of Higher Education.” Urban Education 51, no. 3 (2016): 315–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085915602542. Cite
Vergés Bosch, Núria, Alex Hache, and Eva Cruells Lopez. “Ciberfeminismo de investigacción con y entre tecnoartistas y hackers. / Cyberfeminist Activist Research With and Among Technoartists and Hackers.” Athenea Digital. Revista de pensamiento e investigación social 14, no. 4 (2014): 153–80. https://www.academia.edu/10072876/Ciberfeminismo_de_investigacci%C3%B3n_con_y_entre_tecnoartistas_y_hackers. Cite
Berlet, Chip. “Public Intellectuals, Scholars, Journalists, & Activism: Wearing Different Hats and Juggling Different Ethical Mandates.” International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (2014): 61–90. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.4471/rimcis.2014.29. Cite
Aldridge, Jo. “Working with Vulnerable Groups in Social Research: Dilemmas by Default and Design.” Qualitative Research : QR 14, no. 1 (2014): 112–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794112455041. 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
Smeltzer, Sandra. “Asking Tough Questions: The Ethics of Studying Activism in Democratically Restricted Environments.” Social Movement Studies 11, no. 2 (2012): 255–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.664905. Cite
Gillan, Kevin, and Jenny Pickerill. “The Difficult and Hopeful Ethics of Research on, and with, Social Movements.” Social Movement Studies 11, no. 2 (2012): 133–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.664890. Cite
Cosgrove, Shady E. “Reading for Peace? Literature as Activism – an Investigation into New Literary Ethics and the Novel.” In Activating Human Rights and Peace Conference Proceedings, 233–39. Australia, 2008. https://ro.uow.edu.au/creartspapers/82. 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
Hale, Charles R. “What Is Activist Research?” Items and Issues 2, no. 1–2 (2001): 13–15. https://items.ssrc.org/from-our-archives/what-is-activist-research/. Cite
Elbaz, Gilbert. “AIDS Activism, Communities and Disagreements.” Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 25, no. 2 (1997): 145–54. https://doi.org/NA. Cite
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
Epstein, Steven. “The Construction of Lay Expertise: AIDS Activism and the Forging of Credibility in the Reform of Clinical Trials.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 20, no. 4 (1995): 408–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/016224399502000402. Cite
Rothman, David J., and Harold Edgar. “AIDS, Activism, and Ethics.” Hospital Practice 26, no. 7 (1991): 135–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1991.11704211. Cite