Collaborating for change : a participatory action research casebook /
edited by Susan D. Greenbaum, Glenn Jacobs, and Prentice Zinn.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781978801196 9781978801172
Action research--United States. Social change--United States--Case studies. Social justice--United States--Case studies.