Critical Social Thought 249TJ - Transform. Justice: Truth/Pwr

Fall
2019
01
4.00
Ren-yo Hwang
W 01:30PM-04:20PM
Mount Holyoke College
108631
Shattuck Hall 203
rhwang@mtholyoke.edu
108592,108631
This course will offer an overview of select methodologies and methods from Community-based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR), Participatory Action Research (PAR), collaborative ethnography and other social justice research interventions such as radical oral history, grassroots research collectives, experimental digital archives, research and data justice networks and organizations. We will center on questions of "accountability"; that is, to whom, for whom, and to what end do processes of accountability serve those already in power? Moreover, we will investigate the chasms between academia and activism in order to explore the possibility of unlikely collaborative research alliances.
Prereq: 4 credits in Gender Studies or Critical Social Thought.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.