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Subject: [GTA Core] Fwd: Video series around the new SM research methods handbook now online - engaged, decolonial, accessible
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 19:01:33 +0100
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Subject: Video series around the new SM research methods handbook now online - engaged, decolonial, accessible
Date: 4 June 2024 at 11:42:54 BST
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Dear friends, comp@s, colleagues –
 
We have now posted the 7 sessions of April’s online global symposium around the new Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements (eds Laurence Cox, Anna Szolucha, Alberto Arribas Lozano and Sutapa Chattopadhyay).
 
This is the first methods handbook in the field in a decade and to our knowledge the only one (in English) not to entirely centre the global North. It places engaged/activist research methods and conventional/positivist ones on an equal footing and is consciously edited for newcomers to the field as well as experienced researchers: authors were asked to imagine people who were not native English speakers, might be working in movements, could be first-generation or mature students, and to give honest accounts of the reality of doing research. We hope it gives at least a partial overview of the extraordinary richness and variety of good research around (from, in, with, on) social movements that is taking place around the world, and will be a useful tool to bring in new people to movement research in many different contexts.
 
The videos of the 60-90 minute sessions include about half of the handbook’s 49 authors in discussion around themes including:
 
  • Researching movements in SE Asia (organised by ALTERSEA, with Wijayanto, Wichuta Teeratanabodee, Zo Bilay/Zobi, Gloria Truly Estrelita and Gabriel Facal)
  • Feminist and Southern approaches, researching identities and ideologies (Sevil Çakır, Minati Dash, Susann Pham and Ayse Sargin)
  • Roundtable on the book (Keisha-Khan Perry and the four editors)
  • Classical and contemporary approaches to researching movements (Tiago Carvalho, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Aurora Perego & Stefania Vicari, Clare Saunders and Katrin Uba)
  • Indigenous and global movement research (Carlos Y Flores and Axel Köhler)
  • The politics of SM research (Natasha Adams, Geri Augusto, Steve Chase and Joanne Rappaport)
  • Researching online and media activism (Cinzia Padovani and John Postill)
 
They are all free to view at https://www.youtube.com/@socialmovementresearch and we hope they may be useful as introductions, teaching resources etc.
 
CLACSO (the Latin American Council on Social Sciences) also recorded a “Pluriversario” session on the book: “Métodos de investigación sobre, con y desde los movimientos sociales”, with Xochitl Leyva Solano, Claudia Briones, Sutapa Chattopadhyay, Alberto Arribas Lozano and Laurence Cox. This 2-hour session (in Spanish and English with simultaneous translation available) is also free to view at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Vj5QOQGDs
 
Other free online resources include:
 
New Books Network podcast (35 minutes) with Stephen Pimpare and Laurence Coxhttps://newbooksnetwork.com/handbook-of-research-methods-and-applications-for-social-movements
International Sociological Association Global Dialogue piece https://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/how-do-we-research-and-understand-popular-struggles (available in 14 languages)
 
The handbook itself is at https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-research-methods-and-applications-for-social-movements-9781803922010.html - it is at university library prices, hence all this effort to make some of the material available in other ways!
 
Please share this with anyone who you think might find it useful.
 
Laurence Cox
 
 
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements (link to videos of our global symposium around the book)
 
Professor of sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth

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