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The right to research
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This article argued that research is a specialised name for a generalised capacity to make disciplined inquires into those things we need to know, but do not know yet, and argued that knowledge is both valuable and ephemeral due to globalisation.Abstract:
This paper argues that research be recognised as a right of a special kind – that it be regarded as a more universal and elementary ability. It suggests that research is a specialised name for a generalised capacity to make disciplined inquires into those things we need to know, but do not know yet. I maintain that knowledge is both more valuable and more ephemeral due to globalisation, and that it is vital for the exercise of informed citizenship. I acknowledge the 30% of the total world population in poorer countries who may get past elementary education to the bottom rung of secondary and post‐secondary education, and state that one of the rights that this group ought to claim is the right to research – to gain strategic knowledge – as this is essential to their claims for democratic citizenship. I then explore the democratisation of the right to research, and the nexus between research and action, using the Mumbai‐based Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) as an example.read more
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Triangulation, Respondent Validation, and Democratic Participation in Mixed Methods Research:
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Conflict, education and the global south: New critical directions
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Education rights, education policies and inequality in South Africa
Carol Anne Spreen,Salim Vally +1 more
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Resourcing Scholar-Activism: Collaboration, Transformation, and the Production of Knowledge
TL;DR: The authors suggest that research questions should be triangulated to consider not only their scholarly merit but the intellectual and political projects the findings will advance and the research questions of interest to community and social movement collaborators.
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Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
TL;DR: In the U.S. academic world, globalization is a source of anxiety as mentioned in this paper, and the sources of this anxiety are many: Social scientists (especially economists) worry about whether markets and deregulation produce greater wealth at the price of increased inequality.
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Fear of small numbers : an essay on the geography of anger
TL;DR: The Civilization of Clashes: From Ethnocide to Ideocide as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the field of globalization and violence, and it has been used extensively in the literature.
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Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the work of an alliance formed by three civic organisations in Mumbai to address poverty, the NGO SPARC, the National Slum Dwellers Federation and Mahila Milan, a cooperative re...