Research
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Up in Nipigon Country
Anthropology as a Personal Experience
Edward J. Hedican
Fieldwork, once regarded as an essential pillar of social anthropology, has come under attack, especially from the post-modern school. Hedigan argues that for many in the discipline, an anthropology without fieldwork would appear to be a hollow, meaningless experience, devoid of its central epistemological value. This book, drawing on the author’s fieldwork experience among Ojibwa people in Northern Ontario, explores post-modernism’s critique of fieldwork and fieldwork’s contribution… (more information)
Uniting Struggles
Critical Social Research in Critical Times (Alternate Routes 2012) Special 25th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Carlo Fanelli, Priscillia Lefebvre
With the reverberations of the Great Recession still wreaking havoc throughout much of the world, this issue of Alternate Routes brings together articles based on their dedication to critical social research in critical times. Includes interventions by Naom Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Sut Jhally, Garry Potter, Michael Perelman and Pat Armstrong. (more information)
Research Is Ceremony
Indigenous Research Methods
Shawn Wilson
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that… (more information)
Research for Social Justice
A Community Based Approach
Karen Schwartz, Adje van de Sande
Most social work research texts are written from an empiricist and positivist perspective, emphasizing the scientific method and the value of objectivity in research. While acknowledging that certain aspects of the scientific method should be preserved, Adje van de Sande and Karen Schwartz argue that social work research should not be value-free. Social work is committed to social justice and social change, and social work research needs to support that commitment. Research for Social Justice examines… (more information)
Research Ethics and the Internet
Negotiating Canada’s Tri-Council Policy Statement
Heather Kitchin
Kitchin helps readers pick their way through the minefield that stands in the way of all who seek to find clarity as to the ethics of Internet research. The Internet poses new challenges to researchers, and the author clearly discusses these challenges in all their complexity. Issues of copyright, privacy and ethical use of Internet materials loom large. Kitchin analyzes contradictions between the federal Tri- Council Policy Statement and university-based research ethics boards and offers a simple… (more information)
Lumpencity
Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses
Edited by Alan Bourke, Tia Dafnos, Markus Kip
While it has been fashionable to think that academic research benefits marginalized groups, representational and methodological choices have often served to produce and legitimize marginalizing practices. The contributions to this volume reveal how authors have sought to engage with and transform their scholarly repertoires into tools of analysis useful for political action. We hope to encourage scholars, activists, and activist-scholars to reflect upon the complementarity of their academic and… (more information)
Decolonizing Methodologies
2nd edition
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
To the colonized, the term ‘research’ is conflated with colonialism; academic research steeped in imperialism remains a painful reality. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research–specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as ‘regimes of truth.’ Concepts such as ‘discovery’ and ‘claiming’ are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research… (more information)
Arguing With Numbers
Statistics for the Social Sciences
Paul Gingrich, Victor Thiessen
This book focuses on both constructing–and demolishing–arguments based on numbers. It brings a fresh approach to the study of statistics, one which will have students asking for more rather than avoiding the next statistics course. A Student Workbook is also available. (more information)