Researching on the edge: emancipatory praxis for social justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (11) ◽  
pp. 2697-2721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Hutton ◽  
Teresa Heath
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Emancipatory Praxis

Purpose This paper aims to provoke a conversation in marketing scholarship about the overlooked political nature of doing research, particularly for those who research issues of social (in)justice. It suggests a paradigmatic shift in how researchers might view and operationalise social justice work in marketing. Emancipatory praxis framework offers scholars an alternative way to think about the methodology, design and politics of researching issues of social relevance. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper drawing on critical theory to argue for a new methodological shift towards emancipatory praxis. Findings As social justice research involves a dialectical relationship between crises and critique, the concept of emancipation acts as a methodological catalyst for furthering debate about social (in)justice in marketing. This paper identifies a set of methodological troubles and challenges that may disrupt the boundaries of knowledge-making. A set of methodological responses to these issues illustrating how emancipatory research facilitates social action is outlined. Research limitations/implications Emancipatory praxis offers marketing scholars an alternative methodological direction in the hope that more impactful and useful ways of knowing can emerge. Practical implications The paper is intended to change the ways that researchers work in practical and concrete terms on issues of social (in)justice. Social implications Although this paper is theoretical, it argues for an alternative methodological approach to research that reorients researchers towards a politicised praxis with emancipatory relevancy. Originality/value Emancipatory praxis offers a new openly politicised methodological alternative for addressing problems of social relevance in marketing. As a continuous political and emancipatory task for researchers, social justice research involves empirical encounters with politics, advocacy and democratic participation, where equality is the methodological starting point for research design and decisions as much as it is the end goal.

Documenting social justice in library and information science research: a literature review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Winberry ◽  
Bradley Wade Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Social Justice Research

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to provide an overview of social justice research in library and information science (LIS) literature in order to identify the research quantity, what populations or settings were included and future directions for this area of the discipline through examination of when related research was published, what contexts it covered and what contributions LIS researchers have made in this research area.Design/methodology/approachThis study reviews results from two LIS literature databases—Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) and Library and Information Science Source (LISS)—that use the term “social justice” in title, abstract or full text to explicitly or implicitly describe their research.FindingsThis review of the literature using the term social justice to describe LIS research recognizes the significant increase in quantities of related research over the first two decades of the 21st century as well as the emergence of numerous contexts in which that research is situated. The social justice research identified in the literature review is further classified into two primary contribution categories: indirect action (i.e. steps necessary for making change possible) or direct action (i.e. specific steps, procedures and policies to implement change).Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this study provide a stronger conceptualization of the contributions of existing social justice research through examination of past work and guides next steps for the discipline.Practical implicationsThe conceptualizations and related details provided in this study help identify gaps that could be filled by future scholarship.Originality/valueWhile social justice research in LIS has increased in recent years, few studies have explored the landscape of existing research in this area.

Social Justice Research: Who Decides What is "Just"?

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phuong T. Nguyen ◽  
Nancy J. Lin ◽  
Stephanie C. Day ◽  
Karen L. Suyemoto
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Social Justice Research

scholarly journals Aircraft Noise Distribution as a Fairness Dilemma—A Review of Aircraft Noise through the Lens of Social Justice Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7399
Author(s):  
Dominik Hauptvogel ◽  
Susanne Bartels ◽  
Dirk Schreckenberg ◽  
Tobias Rothmund
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Noise Exposure ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Aircraft Noise ◽  
Noise Distribution ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Noise Annoyance ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
The Relationship

Aircraft noise exposure is a health risk and there is evidence that noise annoyance partly mediates the association between noise exposure and stress-related health risks. Thus, approaches to reduce annoyance may be beneficial for health. Annoyance is influenced by manifold non-acoustic factors and perceiving a fair and trustful relationship between the airport and its residents may be one of them. The distribution of aircraft noise exposure can be regarded as a fairness dilemma: while residents living near an airport may seem to have some advantages, the majority of residents living under certain flight routes or in their immediate proximity suffer from the disadvantages of the airport, especially the noise. Moreover, a dilemma exists between the airport’s beneficial economic impact for a region and the physical and psychological integrity of residents. Aircraft noise exposure through the lens of social justice research can help to improve our understanding of noise annoyance. Research indicates that the fairness perceptions of the parties involved can be enhanced by (a) improving individual cost–benefit ratios, (b) providing a fair procedure for deciding upon the noise distribution, and (c) implementing fair social interaction with residents. Based on the review of evidence from social justice research, we derive recommendations on how fairness aspects can be integrated into aircraft noise management with the purpose of improving the relationship between the airport and its residents, to reduce annoyance, and to enhance the acceptance of local aviation and the airport as a neighbor.

scholarly journals Fast Professors, Research Funding, and the Figured Worlds of Mid-Career Ontario Academics

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Sandra Acker ◽  
Michelle K McGinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Figured Worlds ◽  
External Funding ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
Research Accomplishment ◽  
The Way

Heightened pressures to publish prolifically and secure external funding stand in stark contrast with the slow scholarship movement. This article explores ways in which research funding expectations permeate the “figured worlds” of 16 mid-career academics in education, social work, sociology, and geography in 7 universities in Ontario, Canada. Participants demonstrated a steady record of research accomplishment and a commitment to social justice in their work. The analysis identified four themes related to the competing pressures these academics described in their day-to-day lives: getting funded; life gets in the way; work gets in the way; and being a fast professor. Participants spoke about their research funding achievements and struggles. In some cases, they explained how their positioning, including gender and race, might have affected their research production, compared to colleagues positioned differently. Their social justice research is funded, but some suspect at a lower level than colleagues studying conventional topics. In aiming for the impossible standards of a continuously successful research record, these individuals worked “all the time.” Advocates claim that slow scholarship is not really about going slower, but about maintaining quality and caring in one’s work, yet participants’ accounts suggest they have few options other than to perform as “fast professors.” At mid-career, they question whether and how they can keep up this pace for 20 or more years.

Language and Social Psychology Approaches to Race, Racism, and Social Justice: Analyzing the Past and Revealing Ways Forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-28
Author(s):  
Natasha Shrikant ◽  
Howard Giles ◽  
Daniel Angus
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Justice Research

Issues of race, racism, and social justice are under-studied topics in this journal. This Prologue, and our Special Issue (S.I.) more broadly, highlights ways that language and social psychology (LSP) approaches can further our understanding of race, racism, and social justice, while suggesting more inclusive directions for their theoretical development. Acknowledging the inspiration from the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, we begin by discussing our deeply-held personal and emotional connections to recent societal events, including police violence against innocent Black civilians and the prevalence of anti-Asian hate. What follows, then, is: a historical analysis of past JLSP publications on these issues, a proposal for more intersections between LSP and communication social justice research, and an overview of the BLM movement together with the four articles that follow. We conclude by advocating for individual and institutional practices that can create socially-just changes by LSP scholars in the academy.

Critical Autoethnography for Social Justice Research in Doctoral Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-37
Author(s):  
Robin Throne
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
Critical Autoethnography ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Many

As autoethnography and other methods for self-as-subject research continue to increase in use across doctoral education, this guide proposes to inform the methods in this area specific to critical autoethnography for doctoral scholars desiring to conduct the many forms of social justice research. This includes indigenous research, contemporary feminist research, and arts-based research, which have also seen rise across dissertation research among many disciplines. While many works exist to describe critical autoethnography within specific contexts, few research guides examine critical autoethnography specific for use by the doctoral scholar and specific examples across research focused on societal change and/or disruption of existing power dynamics, lack of parity, or historical trauma from acculturation and/or dispossession. Thus, this chapter offers a concise research methods resource for doctoral scholars and their research supervisors to facilitate use of critical autoethnography across disciplines and among diverse research problems of inquiry.

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