Research and Activism: Ruth First and Activist Research
Synopsis
A book that interrogates, celebrates, performs and opens up a projective scholarship on Ruth First’s extraordinary body of knowledge that also recuperates, recovers and rediscovers her. This book convincingly argues for forging activist research that speaks to contemporary challenges and builds on First’s rich legacy.
Chapters
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Table of Contents
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Foreword
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Foreword
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Preface
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Chapter 1 – Understanding Activist Research
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Chapter 2 – Ruth First and the Nature of Activist Research
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Chapter 3 – Ruth First’s Activist Research and its Challenges
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Chapter 4 – Towards a Theory of Objectivity for Activist
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Chapter 5 – Rick Turner and Engaged Political Philosophy as Activist Research
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Chapter 6 – Ruth First in the Twenty-First Century: Activist Research in the Age of Climate Change
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Chapter 7 – Research as an Act of Activist-Intellectual Resistance: Two Case Studies of Oral Histories and Archiving in South Africa
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Chapter 8 – Critical Sensemaking: Negotiations, Contradictions and Compromises of a Feminist Activist Scholar
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Chapter 9 – Lawyers and Activism in the Context of the Decolonial Turn
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Chapter 10 – Systemic Imperatives Activist Scholarship in South Africa: The Study of the San and Khoi Research Centre, University of Cape Town
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Chapter 11 – Intr/Activism Scholar/Activist -Abilities, Simultaneously Cutting Together/Apart
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Chapter 12 – The Ruse of Political Neutrality: Critical Research, Value Creation, Graffiti and Political Intervention at an Art Institution in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Author Biographies
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Index
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Published
6 May 2025
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Copyright (c) 2025 ESI Press
Details about the available publication format: PDF
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ISBN-13 (15)
978-1-0370-5839-4 (E-book/digital)
