Engaged Scholarship
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LASA Forum – Collaborative Research Methods
What is the purpose of research? Why and for whom do we do it? These simple questions often get lost in the world of academe where tenure, peer-review, and merit scores can take on a life of their own, overshadowing issues like making the world a more just and equitable place. Putting them on the table and looking at them without flinching represents a first, crucial step toward integrating research and social change agendas.
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What Kind of Geography for What Kind of Public Policy? – David Harvey
Can geographers contribute successfully, meaningfully, and effectively to the formation of public policy? Do we want to? David Harvey addresses these questions, arguing that geographers should work to inform a progressive ‘incorporated state’ rather than the existing corporate state.
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For Public Sociology – Michael Burawoy
How can we incorporate multiple, competing, seemingly antagonistic knowledges? The author argues that public sociology’s current challenge is to engage multiple publics in multiple ways.
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A Public Sociology for Human Rights – Michael Burawoy
The author argues for a transformation of the status-quo in sociology to draw explicit attention to fundamental human rights that uphold human communities in the face of the colonizing projects of states and markets.
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