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‘Being useful’ after the Ivory Tower: combining research and activism with the Brixton Pound

机译:象牙塔之后的“变得有用”:将研究和行动主义与布里克斯顿磅融为一体

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This article draws on research and activism with a local currency group, the Brixton Pound, in order to extend discussions of scholar-activism to encompass broad and inclusive notions of activism. As broad and inclusive notions of activism dislodge the boundaries between academia and activism, they have enabled scholars to challenge the idea that it is necessary to keep activism separate from research and to explore why and how activism and research might be combined. Despite this, however, the academic literature on scholar-activism is presently dominated by ‘capital A’ activism and activists, suggesting there is more to do to embed inclusive notions of activism within it. This article makes a contribution to such efforts, positioning involvement in a local currency group, the Brixton Pound, as combining activism with research, in order to provide motivation and resources to a more diverse audience, particularly those who may not have previously combined research with activism or who may be ‘put off’ by narrow notions of ‘capital A’ activism. In light of the continued centrality of concerns about the usefulness of academics in debates about activism and the academy, I choose ‘being useful’ as a rubric through which to organise this article. My involvement with the Brixton Pound suggests that the loss of the privileged position of critique atop the ‘Ivory Tower’ opens up a range of other contributions extending across boundaries between activism and research and between theory and method. I identify three ways of ‘being useful’, including practising ethics of reciprocity, developing embedded research projects through engagement and building more generative critical (geographical) scholarship. Together, these ways of being useful make a contribution towards transforming critical geography into a more hopeful, generative (sub-)discipline, more closely connected with issues of practical significance to (broadly understood) activism.
机译:本文利用与本地货币组织Brixton Pound的研究和行动主义,来扩展对学者行动主义的讨论,以涵盖广泛而包容的行动主义概念。随着广泛而包容的行动主义观念摆脱了学术界和行动主义之间的界限,它们使学者们质疑以下观点:必须将行动主义与研究区分开来,并探讨为什么以及如何将行动主义与研究结合起来。尽管如此,尽管如此,有关学者行动主义的学术文献目前仍以“资本A”行动主义和激进主义者为主导,这表明在其中嵌入行动主义的包容性概念还有更多工作要做。本文为这种努力做出了贡献,将行动主义与研究相结合,定位于当地货币集团Brixton Pound的参与,以便为更多的受众群体提供动力和资源,尤其是那些以前可能没有将研究与实践相结合的受众激进主义或可能被“资本A”激进主义的狭'概念“抛弃”的人。鉴于在有关激进主义和学术界的辩论中,人们对学者有用性的关注一直处于中心地位,因此我选择“有用”作为组织本文的标题。我参与布里克斯顿镑(Brixton Pound)的过程表明,失去对“象牙塔”的批判的特权地位,开启了一系列其他行动,跨越了行动主义与研究之间以及理论与方法之间的界限。我确定了三种“有用”的方法,包括实践互惠道德,通过参与发展嵌入式研究项目以及建立更具生成性的关键(地理)奖学金。总之,这些有用的方式有助于将关键的地理学转变为更具希望的,生成的(子)学科,并与对(广泛理解的)行动主义具有实际意义的问题更加紧密地联系在一起。

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