Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schostak, John; Schostak, Jill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Violence, democracy and rights are issues that are not fully addressed in research methodology literatures, yet violence is of vital interest in substantive and theoretical debates across the social sciences, education, philosophy, politics and cultural studies. Methodology needs to be informed by, and be relevant to, the debates and practices within and across these perspectives on the worlds of everyday life.

Research is fundamentally entwined with the political, the ethical and the legal. When it presumes the neutrality of method and ignores its radical roots of inquiry, it is in danger of being politically co-opted and ethically naïve. Research that reveals what is at stake politically, ethically and legally is typically open to accusations of being partisan and therefore political. It cannot avoid being political in the broadest sense of the word, and consequently the researcher cannot escape - through some mystical notion of being 'objective' - the political, ethical and legal consequences of undertaking research.

Research is vital to the construction of public spaces for debate, decision making and action. Hence, there is a close relationship between methodological practices, research design and the conditions under which violence, democracy and rights can be addressed.

Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People explores what is at stake methodologically (both theoretically and practically) for researchers seeking to expand opportunities for people to become visible upon the public stages of debate, decision making and action, and thus make audible their experiences of wrongs and injustices, express their rights, and engage democratically in processes of change.

Drawing on international contributions and contexts, this book introduces readers to the complex realities of real research and the substantive issues that their methodological approaches strive to deal with. It will benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as post-doctoral and experienced researchers across a range of cultural and social science disciplines, as well as educational and sociological researchers. Its aim is to explore and contribute to the development of innovatory approaches to engaging in research that make a difference in the lives of people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135188467
• Artikelnr.: 42830813

Autorenporträt

John F. Schostak is Research Professor of Education at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University. Jill Schostak is Visiting Fellow at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, and most recently has undertaken contract research with the College of Emergency Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents: Selected Contents: Introduction Part A: Design, Values, Violence
and Rights 1. Values, Violence, Rights Part B: Research Accounts
Introduction to Part B 2. Rethinking justice in education and training 3.
Between justice and pathologisation: juxtapositions of epistemic and
material violence in transnational research around migration and domestic
violence. METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSION SECTION i: on values, justice,
knowledge .and identity 4. The scarf unveiled: proximity to the test of law
in a French school 5. Social Research and 'Race': Developing a critical
paradigm 6. Violence, Social Exclusion and Construction of Identities in
Early Childhood Education Concepción Sánchez Blanco METHODOLOGICAL
DISCUSSION SECTION ii: resisting identities and boundaries 7. The
construction of Violence/non-violence by schools and the media 8. Charlie
Why Ya Hideing: The Role of Myth and Emotions in the Lives of Young People
Living in a High Crime Area 9. Passionate Places and Fragmented Spaces 10.
The Return of the Repressed METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSION SECTION iii: places,
visible, invisible and their 'dis/contents' 11. Discursive and Material
forms of Violence in the US in a post 9/11 Era 12. Militarizing Higher
Education: Resisting the Pedagogy of Violence METHODOLOGICAL DISCUSSION
SECTION iv: The language of critical resistance, emancipatory practices and
the construction of the conditions for action and the containment of change
Part C: Framing the Design and Writing Up 14. Writing for Emancipatory
Research Conclusion