Engaging Contradictions

Charles R. Hale is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. For 2006-7, he is President of the Latin American Studies Association.

• ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Resources Foreword, by Craig Calhoun Introduction Charles R. HalePART I. MAPPING THE TERRAIN1. Forgotten Places and the Seeds of Grassroots Planning Ruth Wilson Gilmore2. Research, Activism, and Knowledge Production Dani Wadada Nabudere3. Breaking the Chains and Steering the Ship: How Activism Can Help Change Teaching and Scholarship George Lipsitz    PART II. TROUBLING THE TERMS4. Activist Groundings or Groundings for Activism? The Study of Racialization as a Site of Political Engagement Jemima Pierre5. Globalizing Scholar Activism: Opportunities and Dilemmas through a Feminist Lens Jennifer Bickham Mendez6. Activist Scholarship: Limits and Possibilities in Times of Black Genocide João H. Costa Vargas7. Making Violence Visible: An Activist Anthropological Approach to Women’s Rights Investigation Samuel Martínez    PART III. PUTTING ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP TO WORK8. Forged in Dialogue: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research Shannon Speed9. Community-Centered Research as Knowledge/Capacity Building in Immigrant and Refugee Communities Shirley Suet-ling Tang10. Theorizing and Practicing Democratic Community Economics: Engaged Scholarship, Economic Justice,and the Academy Jessica Gordon Nembhard     PART IV. MAKING OURSELVES AT HOME11. Crouching Activists, Hidden Scholars: Reflections on Research and Development with Students andCommunities in Asian American Studies Peter Nien-chu Kiang12. Theoretical Research, Applied Research, and Action Research: The Deinstitutionalization ofActivist Research Davydd J. Greenwood13. FAQs: Frequently (Un)Asked Questions about Being a Scholar Activist Laura Pulido     Afterword: Activist Scholars or Radical Subjects?by Joy James and Edmund T. Gordon ContributorsIndex