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‘We are of the connections’: migration, methodological nationalism, and ‘militant research’ [PDF]

Postcolonial Studies, 2013
AbstractIf there were no borders, there would be no migrants – only mobility. The persistent reification of migrants and migration – even in critical migration studies –(re-)fetishizes and (re-)naturalizes the epistemological stability attributed to the (‘national’) state as a modular fixture of geopolitical space. In this regard, migration scholarship
Nicholas De Genova
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Researching ‘Militant Groups’ [PDF]

, 2020
The chapter reflects on the author’s experiences as a Ph.D. student in Belfast in the mid-1980s conducting research on militant groups. It considers issues of security, ethics and access and juxtaposes the author’s experiences with what is ‘meant to happen’ according to the textbooks. The chapter illustrates the value of patience, of good luck and also
McAuley, Jim, James W. McAuley
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Migrations and militant research? Some brief considerations [PDF]

Postcolonial Studies, 2013
AbstractThe first part of the essay raises some doubts about the possibility of understanding research on migrations as ‘militant research’. A brief analysis of the discourse where research work is confined allows to glimpse at the deferral of two moments, that of militancy and of research.
SOSSI, Federica
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Militant Research and Public Policy: From Action to Reform and from Reform to Action

Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie
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, Jaime Palomera Zaidel   +1 more
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Militant research against‐and‐beyond itself: critical perspectives from the university and Occupy London [PDF]

Area, 2015
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.
Sam Halvorsen
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Militant Research for Peace Education. The Case of Grupa Granica on the Polish-Belarusian Border

Journal of Peace Education, 2023
Peace education prepares people to deal peacefully with conflicts of various scales. The authors want to enrich this education by paying attention to situations when international tension increases, and it is still possible to defuse it. Social movements sometimes highlight the hidden conflicts in society.
Piotr Kowzan, Przemysław Szczygieł
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The Ethics of Engaged Ethnography: Applying a Militant Anthropology in Organs‐Trafficking Research

Anthropology News, 2009
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Migration discipline hijacked: distances and interruptions of a research militancy

Postcolonial Studies, 2013
AbstractIn this paper we reflect on some instruments to interrupt the governmentalization of knowledge production at play in migration studies – mainstream, critical, and radical alike. We take knowledge production as the struggle-field where confronting, resisting, and interrupting the disciplining of migrations that arises from their academic and ...
Glenda Garelli, Martina Tazzioli
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Counter (Mapping) Actions: Mapping as Militant Research

2015
We, the Counter Cartographies Collective (3Cs), propose a specific form of counter-mapping, autonomous cartography, to understand and intervene in the processes at our university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As autonomous, militant research, this mapping aims to foster cooperation among researchers and participants to practically ...
Collective, Counter Cartographies, Dalton, Craig, Mason-Deese, Liz   +2 more
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On Militancy, Self-reflection, and the Role of the Researcher

Politikon, 2018
ABSTRACTThis paper began in response to Ibrahim Steyn's work on Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape, (AbM-WC) – a Cape Town-based social movement I was involved with for a few years.
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