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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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Roy, Ananya, Ashley Bennett, Jennifer Blake, Jonny Coleman, Hannah Cornfield, La Donna Harrell, Terrie Klein, et al. (Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community After Echo Park Lake, 2022. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70r0p7q4. 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
Heumann, Judith, and Kristen Joiner. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist. Beacon Press, 2020. Cite
Reilly, Paul. “Curation, Connections and Creativity: Reflections on Using Twitter to Teach Digital Activism,” 2020. https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.jsml.vol1article356. Cite
Blasi, Gary. “UD Day: Impending Evictions and Homelessness in Los Angeles,” 2020. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gz6c8cv. Cite
Roy, Ananya, Gary Blasi, Jonny Coleman, and Elana Eden. Hotel California: Housing the Crisis, 2020. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0k8932p6. Cite
Graziani, Terra, Joel Montano, Ananya Roy, and Pamela Stephens. Who Profits from Crisis? Housing Grabs in Time of Recovery, 2020. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pw706tf. Cite
Malson, Hilary, and Gary Blasi. For the Crisis Yet to Come: Temporary Settlements in the Era of Evictions, 2020. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3tk6p1rk. Cite
Arowosegbe, Jeremiah O. Claude E. Ake: The Making of an Organic Intellectual. South Africa / Oxford: NISC (Pty) Ltd / African Books Collective, 2019. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvhn0d7c. Cite
Hoyt, Crystal L., Aaron J. Moss, Jeni L. Burnette, Annette Schieffelin, and Abigail Goethals. “Wealth Inequality and Activism: Perceiving Injustice Galvanizes Social Change but Perceptions Depend on Political Ideologies.” European Journal of Social Psychology 48, no. 1 (2018): O81–90. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2289. Cite
Kende, Anna. “Separating Social Science Research on Activism from Social Science as Activism.” Journal of Social Issues 72, no. 2 (2016): 399–412. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12172. Cite
Oswald, D., F. Sherratt, and Simon D. Smith. “Handling the Hawthorne Effect: The Challenges Surrounding a Participant Observer,” 2014. https://doi.org/10.21586/ROSS0000004. 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
Gilster, Megan E. “Putting Activism in Its Place: The Neighborhood Context of Participation in Neighborhood-Focused Activism.” Journal of Urban Affairs 36, no. 1 (2014): 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1111/juaf.12013. Cite
Bisaillon, Laura. “An Analytic Glossary to Social Inquiry Using Institutional and Political Activist Ethnography.” International Journal of Qualitative Methods 11, no. 5 (December 1, 2012): 607–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/160940691201100506. Cite
Ellingson, Laura L., and Margaret Quinlan. “Beyond the Research/Service Dichotomy: Claiming ALL Research Products for Hiring, Evaluation, Tenure, and Promotion.” Women’s and Gender Studies, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1525/qcr.2012.1.3.385. Cite
Keifer-Boyd, Karen. “Arts-Based Research as Social Justice Activism: Insight, Inquiry, Imagination, Embodiment, Relationality.” International Review of Qualitative Research 4, no. 1 (2011): 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2011.4.1.3. Cite
Few, April L., Fred P. Piercy, and Andrew Stremmel. “Balancing the Passion for Activism with the Demands of Tenure: One Professional’s Story from Three Perspectives.” NWSA Journal 19, no. 3 (2007): 47–66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40071228. Cite
Coleman, Major G. “Racism in Academia: The White Superiority Supposition in the ‘Unbiased’ Search for Knowledge.” European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Political Economy, 21, no. 3 (2005): 762–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2004.08.004. Cite
Klandermans, Bert, and Suzanne Staggenborg, eds. Methods of Social Movement Research. Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, v. 16. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 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