Collaborative research for justice and multi-issue movement building: Challenging discriminatory policing, school closures, and youth unemployment

Authors

  • Ronald David Glass University of California Santa Cruz
  • Brett G. Stoudt John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4470

Keywords:

Collaborative research, research for justice, community-based research, participatory action research, scholar-activists

Abstract

This special issue engages ethical, epistemic, political, and institutional issues in projects of collaborative research for justice that were designed with movements contesting policing, school closures, and youth disinvestment and unemployment. Three of the articles were collaboratively written by activists and scholars who drew from movements that deployed research for community-driven progressive change. The movements and the research are thus situated at the intersection of struggles against a resurgent anti-immigrant white supremacy, gentrification, a punitive carceral state, low pay and lack of meaningful employment opportunities, and the privatization of the public sector. These articles build upon and are in conversation with a set of related articles published in the spring 2018 special issue of Urban Education(Warren et al, 2018) that also addressed ethical, epistemic, political, and institutional tensions in collaborative research for justice. This EPAA special issue aims to advance the discussion through deep reflection within the context of focal ‘cases’ and within efforts to open space within universities for modes of engaged scholarship that can respond to the challenges of the current moment, as described in the articles that bookend the cases. Taken all together, this special issue demonstrates how scholars, educators, teachers, activists, community leaders, and policy makers can use the production and mobilization of knowledge as a force for building, supporting, sustaining, and advancing multi-issue movements for justice not just in schools and the academy but also in communities of color and others aggrieved by current inequities.

 

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Author Biographies

Ronald David Glass, University of California Santa Cruz

Ronald David Glass is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, and Director of the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC). His recent work focuses on the ethics of research, and the foundations of his philosophy have investigated ideological (trans)formation, education as a practice of freedom, and the role engaged research and public learning processes in struggles for justice.

Brett G. Stoudt, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Brett G. Stoudt lives with his family in Brooklyn and is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department with a joint appointment in the Gender Studies Program at John Jay College of Criminal justice as well as the Psychology and Social Welfare Doctoral Programs at the Graduate Center.

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Published

2019-05-20

How to Cite

Glass, R. D., & Stoudt, B. G. (2019). Collaborative research for justice and multi-issue movement building: Challenging discriminatory policing, school closures, and youth unemployment. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27, 52. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.27.4470

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Section

Research For Justice

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