Introduction -- Epistemology -- Section One: Social justice organizing -- The activist class cultures project -- Fighting anti-homeless laws -- Organizers and academics together -- Section Two: Worker rights activism -- Shaping organizing strategy and public policy -- Worker-led research makes the case -- Power sharing through participatory action research in a Latino forest worker community -- Making justice visible -- Milking research for social change -- Building a better Texas -- Section Three: Language and culture -- Mobilizing and organizing Nimiipuu to protect the environment -- Building future language leaders -- Afterword: linking research to social action.
Summary:
"With society confronting a gathering storm of reactionary political forces, we critically need a surge of progressive organizing and effective action to challenge the false messages of right-wing 'populism'. Outside the Ivory Tower speaks to that task. The book is a snapshot of the projects undertaken by activist organizations and academic researchers in the US who work together to marshal evidence in support of humane policies and progressive change across a range of fields and organizations. It offers examples of social justice projects that involve explicitly co-equal partnerships between the university researchers and the community-based organizations, and showcases the deliberate efforts of these programs to achieve organizational democracy and societal transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
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