Authors
- DOI
- 1
- Pages
- 274
- Published in
- Athabasca, CA
- Rights
- Agnieszka Doll, Laura Bisaillon, and Kevin Walby
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Introduction: Institutional Ethnography and Political Activist Ethnography in Context 12
- Part 1 Direct Action: The Sociology of Confrontation 28
- 1. “Don’t Study Us—Study Them”: Political Activist Ethnography and Activist Ethics in Practice 30
- 2. Direct Action as Political Activist Ethnography: Activist Research in the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty 48
- 3. Looking into the Mouth of Premier David Alward’s Trojan Horse: Responsible Environmental Management of Shale Gas in New Brunswick, Canada 74
- 4. Research from the Ground Up: Reflections on Activist Research Practice and Political Activist Ethnography 106
- Part 2 Research as Policy Intervention and Critique of Institutions 126
- 5. From an Institutional Absence to Radical Action: A Political Activist Ethnography Project in Aotearoa / New Zealand 128
- 6. North-South Partnership and Capacity Building: Tracing Ruling Relations in the Canadian-Bangladeshi Partnership Between Social Justice NGOs 148
- 7. Mandatory HIV Screening Policy and Everyday Life: A Look Inside the Canadian Immigration Medical Examination 168
- Part 3 Frontline Research and the Ethics of Engagement 190
- 8. Studying Out: Institutional Ethnographic Fieldwork as Post-incarceration Activism 192
- 9. Double Ethics, Double Burden: Professionalism, Activism, and Institutional Ethnography 214
- 10. Objectivity Regimes: Challenges for Activist Research in the Academy 240
- Conclusion 260
- Postscript: Looking Back, Looking Forward 270
- Contributors 272