2009
DOI: 10.7202/037770ar
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The Prison Houses of Knowledge: Activist scholarship and revolution in the era of “globalization”

Abstract: The rise of new social movements has produced an emerging discourse on activist scholarship. There is considerable ambiguity about what the term means. In this article I draw on my work as a trade unionist, political activist, and activist lawyer in Mumbai, and later as a social justice activist in New Zealand to reflect on the meaning of activist scholarship, interrogate the institutional contexts for knowledge, and the relationship of knowledge to emancipatory structural so… Show more

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“…For example, these include institutional ethnography/political activist ethnography, partici-patory action research, community-based action research, the extended case method and reflexive global ethnography. Others have questioned implicit and explicit claims of this nature and highlight embedded power relations in research relationships, as well as the importance of relationships of trust and shared political commitments for activist research (Jordan 2003, D'Souza 2009, Choudry 2015.…”
Section: Activist Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, these include institutional ethnography/political activist ethnography, partici-patory action research, community-based action research, the extended case method and reflexive global ethnography. Others have questioned implicit and explicit claims of this nature and highlight embedded power relations in research relationships, as well as the importance of relationships of trust and shared political commitments for activist research (Jordan 2003, D'Souza 2009, Choudry 2015.…”
Section: Activist Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One important effect of the hiatus with political practice is that it introduced into academic Marxism the main features of ‘bourgeois’ social sciences. The hiatus hemmed Marxism within disciplinary boundaries of the academia and its methodological and institutional norms (D’Souza, 2009); it introduced empirical methods into social sciences (Lovering, 1987; Porter, 1995), where the ‘subject’ of capital, the academic, stood outside of production relations of imperialism and its forms of governance in post-WWII TMF capitalism. The hiatus produced a way of theorising that sundered ideas from their materiality in social relations.…”
Section: The Trajectory Of Post War Marxismmentioning
confidence: 99%