Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession : Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia (Hardcover)

This collection tackles the issues raised by academic engagement with political activism, with a particular focus on local activism in the Americas and Asia. As the contributors to this volume stress, politically engaged research can have a meaningful impact on social activism. But such engagement also presents a number of problems for the researcher on the ground. With case studies spanning countries from Canada and Brazil to Sri Lanka and Indonesia, as well as covering such diverse issues as migration, agribusiness, and the value of new research methods, this collection shows that research that properly engages with local activism can play a positive role in these movements and help to enhance the social and political prospects of struggling communities.