Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development
- Submitting institution
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Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 0I/01/21
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1447350859
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This edited book involved a significant research contribution by Scandrett as well as general editorial work, in equal contribution with his co-editor. Methodologically, Scandrett combines research with activism, co-producing research with friends and comrades from relevant communities, shaped by the discipline of Freirean dialogue. This research process of dialogical co-production between activists and academics was central to the book.
Scandrett's research involved colleagues from India, Palestine and Scotland. One goal was breadth: "the dialectical integrity of content and narrative, experience and theory, urgency and reflection – has taken a different form with each".(Quotes from the book's conclusions, pages 2011-2012).
He "asked contributors to this book to reflect both practically and theoretically on their engagement with struggles for environmental justice and how these connect to community development and popular struggle." This editorial lead meant that “Many of the chapters have been co-produced".
Thus Scandrett's research contribution is reflected even in non-authored material: "Many of the chapters began as dialogues between two or more of those involved in a struggle or acting in solidarity. Dharmesh and Shweta’s... significant experience and current dilemmas with the Indian environmental justice movement were captured through a series of Skype interviews with Scandrett, documented and then subjected to a process of dialogical counter-critique."
Scandrett's research role in this output also includes directly authored material: "Chapter Ten was initially written by Scandrett from material provided by Abeer, Zayneb and Mahmoud in many different ways – through written input and interview, but mostly through Scandrett's direct experience of participation in solidarity activities in Palestine, hosted by the other contributors – and then collectively revised.” Scandrett’s authorial research methodology was used by other contributing authors, reflecting the research contribution of Scandrett as editor, in equal contribution with his co-editor as noted above.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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