- Professor
- Date
- Wednesday 4 Apr 2018, 14:00 - 16:00
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- 4.01
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
The Political Ecology research group is hosting a seminar with Andrej Grubacic who will talk about militant research.
What is militant research?
This talk will focus on the specific form of inquiry that the Anthropology and Social Change program at CIIS- San Francisco, has been developing collectively in the last couple of years.
Militant research is a specific approach to research methodology that dissolves or unsettles traditional barriers between research and political activism, between insiders and outsiders, and between researchers and subjects.
By militant research I refer to a collection of different investigative techniques that include militant and activist ethnography, radical oral history, testimonials, workers’ inquiry, drifts, and participatory action research.
Militant research is a tool for 'creating the conditions we describe'. Its practitioners engage in the process of co-research to explore existing alternatives and possibilities for social change.
All are welcome!
PhD researches are especially invited to attend and participate in the discussion of research methods and activism.
About the speaker
Andrej Grubacic a Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, USA. He is the co-author of the book, Living at the Edges of Capitalisms (2016), winner of the 2017 American Sociological Association PEWS prize for Distinguished Scholarship.
He is currently a visiting fellow at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam, and visiting researcher at Leiden University.