For those who work in alliances across borders, coauthoring stories can become a powerful tool to... more For those who work in alliances across borders, coauthoring stories can become a powerful tool to mobilize experience in order to write against relations of power that produce violence, and to imagine and enact contextually grounded visions and ethics of social change. Such work means not only grappling with the complexities of identity, representation, and political imagination, but also rethinking assumptions and possibilities associated with engagement, expertise, and the very ideas of storytelling and authorship. Drawing on partnerships with sangtins and others, this chapter reflects on the labor process, assumptions, possibilities, and risks associated with coauthorship as a medium for mobilizing intellectual spaces, in which stories from multiple locations in an alliance can speak with one another and evolve into more nuanced critical interventions that destabilize dominant discourses and methodologies. The chapter ends with the last scene of a play in Hindi and Awadhi that the author wrote with members and supporters of Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS), Aag Lagi Hai Jangal Ma (The Forest Is Burning), in 2010. Even as this scene articulates the ways in which rural lives and livelihoods are relentlessly violated by structures of power and by our own complicities with those structures, it calls for continuing to place our hopes in fighting, dreaming, writing, and singing together.
... Five Asian ex-civil servants said in their inter-views (conducted by Richa Nagar in October a... more ... Five Asian ex-civil servants said in their inter-views (conducted by Richa Nagar in October and November, 1992) that due to the Africanization of the civil services, a large ... T B. Sheth Public Library and Indc-Tanzania Cultural Center 24 Shishu Kuni (Children's Center) 25. ...
For those who work in alliances across borders, coauthoring stories can become a powerful tool to... more For those who work in alliances across borders, coauthoring stories can become a powerful tool to mobilize experience in order to write against relations of power that produce violence, and to imagine and enact contextually grounded visions and ethics of social change. Such work means not only grappling with the complexities of identity, representation, and political imagination, but also rethinking assumptions and possibilities associated with engagement, expertise, and the very ideas of storytelling and authorship. Drawing on partnerships with sangtins and others, this chapter reflects on the labor process, assumptions, possibilities, and risks associated with coauthorship as a medium for mobilizing intellectual spaces, in which stories from multiple locations in an alliance can speak with one another and evolve into more nuanced critical interventions that destabilize dominant discourses and methodologies. The chapter ends with the last scene of a play in Hindi and Awadhi that the author wrote with members and supporters of Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan (SKMS), Aag Lagi Hai Jangal Ma (The Forest Is Burning), in 2010. Even as this scene articulates the ways in which rural lives and livelihoods are relentlessly violated by structures of power and by our own complicities with those structures, it calls for continuing to place our hopes in fighting, dreaming, writing, and singing together.
... Five Asian ex-civil servants said in their inter-views (conducted by Richa Nagar in October a... more ... Five Asian ex-civil servants said in their inter-views (conducted by Richa Nagar in October and November, 1992) that due to the Africanization of the civil services, a large ... T B. Sheth Public Library and Indc-Tanzania Cultural Center 24 Shishu Kuni (Children's Center) 25. ...
Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability by Richa Nagar in Journey... more Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability by Richa Nagar in Journeys with Sangtin Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and Parakh Theatre – a symposium organised by Rupal Oza (Hunter College, CUNY), featuring reviews by Sarah Hunt (University of Victoria), Rupal, Minelle Mahtani (University of British Columbia) and Deepti Misri (University of Colorado Boulder), with a response from Richa Nagar (University of Minnesota).
Desiree Poets reviews Richa Nagar's 'Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarshi... more Desiree Poets reviews Richa Nagar's 'Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Scholarship and Activism' (University of Illinois Press, 2014) in the Journal of Narrative Politics, Volume 2, No. 2, March 2016.
The University of California Center for Collaborative Research (CCREC) has published an important... more The University of California Center for Collaborative Research (CCREC) has published an important groundbreaking report on the ethics of research: Unsettling Research Ethics. This freely available 120-page report (https://ccrec.ucsc.edu/node/768) addresses critical foundational issues in institutionalized approaches to research ethics.
CCREC (https://ccrec.ucsc.edu/) is a UC system-wide initiative that links university researchers, community-based organizations, and policymakers in projects that address the most pressing cross-sector issues in the economy, employment, environment, food systems, housing, pubic health, and education.
Unsettling Research Ethics presents a distinctive framework for grappling with the ethics of research in the domains of knowledge, relationality, and space and time. CCREC Director and report co-editor Ron Glass notes that the report “aims to strengthen professional formation and the ethical practice of researchers and their partners.” Sheeva Sabati, co-editor, explains that “the report’s learning tools, like innovative cases, games, heat maps, and other materials, are designed to cultivate deep engagement with fraught ethical matters.”
The Unsettling Research Ethics report is based on a February 2016 invitational conference hosted by CCREC in Santa Cruz, CA. The conference was an international and intergenerational gathering of scholars in anthropology, archaeology, critical race and ethnic studies, black studies, computer science, education, feminist studies, geography, public health, sociology, and philosophy. The participating scholars engage in work related to research ethics, community-based and collaborative approaches to research, and ethics policy at institutional, professional association, and national levels. Community leaders in attendance had partnered with scholars on projects addressing multiple domains of injustice, including issues related to labor, race, women, immigration, and youth development. Unsettling Research Ethics provides background on CCREC’s conceptual and pedagogical approaches to ethics, including its notion of ‘dwelling’ within the ethics of research. Additional frameworks and provocative invitations for engaging the ethics of research are offered by Troy Richardson (Cornell University), Joyce E. King (Georgia State University), Rena Lederman (Princeton University), Diane Fujino (University of California, Santa Barbara), Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta), Richa Nagar (University of Minnesota), Caitlin Cahill (Pratt Institute), and George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Natalie JK Baloy, lead editor of Unsettling Research Ethics, emphasizes that “the report is a resource for professional development for both early career and expert researchers and their collaborators, and offers materials to guide sustained ethical reflection during knowledge production practices.”
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CCREC (https://ccrec.ucsc.edu/) is a UC system-wide initiative that links university researchers, community-based organizations, and policymakers in projects that address the most pressing cross-sector issues in the economy, employment, environment, food systems, housing, pubic health, and education.
Unsettling Research Ethics presents a distinctive framework for grappling with the ethics of research in the domains of knowledge, relationality, and space and time. CCREC Director and report co-editor Ron Glass notes that the report “aims to strengthen professional formation and the ethical practice of researchers and their partners.” Sheeva Sabati, co-editor, explains that “the report’s learning tools, like innovative cases, games, heat maps, and other materials, are designed to cultivate deep engagement with fraught ethical matters.”
The Unsettling Research Ethics report is based on a February 2016 invitational conference hosted by CCREC in Santa Cruz, CA. The conference was an international and intergenerational gathering of scholars in anthropology, archaeology, critical race and ethnic studies, black studies, computer science, education, feminist studies, geography, public health, sociology, and philosophy. The participating scholars engage in work related to research ethics, community-based and collaborative approaches to research, and ethics policy at institutional, professional association, and national levels. Community leaders in attendance had partnered with scholars on projects addressing multiple domains of injustice, including issues related to labor, race, women, immigration, and youth development.
Unsettling Research Ethics provides background on CCREC’s conceptual and pedagogical approaches to ethics, including its notion of ‘dwelling’ within the ethics of research. Additional frameworks and provocative invitations for engaging the ethics of research are offered by Troy Richardson (Cornell University), Joyce E. King (Georgia State University), Rena Lederman (Princeton University), Diane Fujino (University of California, Santa Barbara), Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta), Richa Nagar (University of Minnesota), Caitlin Cahill (Pratt Institute), and George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Natalie JK Baloy, lead editor of Unsettling Research Ethics, emphasizes that “the report is a resource for professional development for both early career and expert researchers and their collaborators, and offers materials to guide sustained ethical reflection during knowledge production practices.”