Action Research

Question 1

Geography, pedagogy and politics (?;?)

Answer 1

Castree et al 2008
We are always engaged in processes of shaping and steering wider society
(not just in undertaking policy-relevant research)
Joined-up conception of ourselves and our activities as professional geographers embedded in a wider society
Think anew about your societal role

Question 2

Militant research in radical climate movement (?;?)

Answer 2

Russell 2015
Militant ethnography
Knowledge production = situated and partial and partisan knowledge(s)
No critical distance between him and research ‘object’ - no researcher/researched divide
Militant research = an orientation
- commitment to augmentation and transformation of the movement
- within and as part of the milieu to be research
Activism and research are not opposed
Seek to counteract neoliberal forces within the university to reimagine it as a machine for the production of other worlds

Question 3

Situated solidarities (?;?)

Answer 3

Routledge and Derickson 2015
Scholar activist - seeks alignment between academic work and political ideals to further social change
Situated solidarities - ask how knowledge produced might be of use to others, and how it might be tied to social change
Relational
Being moved = allow core values and emotional responses to directly inform our research
Disperse power - break down boundaries between traditional identities of academic vs. activist

Question 4

Politics of resourcefulness (?;?)

Answer 4

Derickson and Routledge 2015
Channel resources and privileges of academics to advance work of non-academic collaborators
Design research explicitly to ask and answer questions that non-academic collaborators want to know

Question 5

Land occupation in Bangladesh (?;?)

Answer 5

Routledge 2015
Ethnographic engagement with peasant farmer movements in Bangladesh since 2002
Works within the groups
Politically engaged and committed research conducted in horizontal collaboration with social movements
Participant onservation, interviews, and ongoing discussions
Land occupation = efforts to disperse power from government officials and landowning elites towards peasants