Militant Design Research: A Proposal to Politicize Design Knowledge-making
This work reflects on how design can engage in emancipatory processes of knowledge-making through Militant Design Research. The argument draws on the work of scholars who are engaged in counter-hegemonic design research and practice, and questions the ...
Bibiana Serpa
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Militant research against-and-beyond itself: critical perspectives from the university and Occupy London [PDF]
This paper examines the increasingly popular approach of militant research and argues for the need to conceptualise it as a contradictory approach that exists against-and-beyond any form it takes.
Halvorsen, S
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Pictograms for resistance: historicity and militant design research in Amazonian Ecuador
This article focuses on the experiences of developing and using pictograms as visual devices to support Indigenous communities of Amazonian Ecuador. It recognizes the imbalances and contradictions amidst the complex histories and identities of a Latin American state such as Ecuador.
Nathaly Pinto, Guy Julier, Andrés Tapia
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Navigating Tensions and Contradictions: The Everyday Negotiation of Militant Research
ABSTRACT This paper explores the tensions and contradictions generated when conducting militant research from within academia. More specifically, it focuses on how they play out and shape militant research on an everyday basis, and how they are constantly negotiated by militant researchers and mediated by their diverse positionalities.
Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
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Militant Research and Public Policy: From Action to Reform and from Reform to Action [PDF]
AbstractThere exists a political tradition that views research as a transformative tool that empowers people to diagnose their own realities and enact change. Drawing on the legacy of militant research, this paper examines its role in shaping and influencing public policy, identifying two distinct frameworks: Action‐to‐Reform, which focuses on ...
Rubén Martínez Moreno +1 more
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Radical Methodological Openness and Method as Politics: Reflections on Militant Research with Squatters in Catalonia [PDF]
AbstractIn 2017, it was estimated that over 87,000 families—around 270,000 people—lived in squatted properties in Spain. Such figures, often used by the media to stigmatise residential occupations and generate moral panic, give an ill‐defined yet powerful indication of the prevalence of squatting within and outside organised housing movements.
Ferreri, Mara +1 more
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“We are fed up …Being research objects!” negotiating identities and solidarities in militant ethnography [PDF]
Abstract This article describes experiences of long-term ethnographic fieldwork on disobedience, disloyalty and dissensus among women in public space in selected (post-)Yugoslav cities. I focus on the opportunities and pitfalls of feminist ethnography and methodology in the context of positionality, engagement and solidarity as essential
Magdalena Sztandara
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Challenging the discipline of migration: militant research in migration studies, an introduction [PDF]
AbstractIn the last two decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of studies on migrations that, taking human mobility as their focus, contributed to the profiling of migrations as an object of research and to the institutionalization of its stakes. While, on the one hand, this has coincided with the becoming a discipline of migrations (i.e.
Garelli G., Tazzioli M.
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Ethnographic practice in contentious and high-risk spaces raises important ethical and methodological questions. When working with grassroots activists who actively avoid forms of surveillance, the boundary between consensual observation and potentially harmful documentation becomes difficult to discern. This article aims not only to identify the gaps
Élise Imray Papineau
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