Doing Anti-Racist Scholarship With Adolescents: Empirical Examples and Lessons Learned

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 427-436
Author(s):  
Mariah Kornbluh ◽  
Leoandra Onnie Rogers ◽  
Joanna Lee Williams
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Developmental Science ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Conducting Research

The goal of this two-part special issue is to present and engage theories and methods for pursuing anti-racist developmental science and to provide a critical self-evaluation of the field of adolescent development. The first volume in this series encompasses empirical-focused manuscripts that engage in doing anti-racist scholarship through critical methodological approaches (e.g., QuantCrit, Critical Qualitative Research, and Youth-Participatory Action Research) with opportunities for critical self-reflection for scholars, as well as centering research around adolescents who are systematically marginalized in scholarship within the field of adolescent development. In this introduction, we stress the value of engaging in anti-racist research within the field of developmental science and provide an overview of the articles, placing these manuscripts in conversation with one another and gleaning insights with respect to the who, what, how, and why of anti-racist developmental research with adolescents. This special issue intentionally features manuscripts that embrace plurality in methodology, exhibit an openness to challenging dominant research paradigms (i.e., intentionally rooting out racist ideologies, methods, and theories within the field), and place an introspective spotlight on the process of conducting research. We conclude by offering our collective considerations and points of reflection for pursuing anti-racist research.

Dialogue is Anything but Silent: A Foreword to the Black Lives Matter Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Abrams ◽  
Sandra Schamroth Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Active Listening ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
Conducting Research

This foreword to the Black Lives Matter special issue looks to embrace active listening and open dialogue via writing, and it calls attention to the confines of traditional publishing that otherwise do not support dialogue in writing. Building upon Onwuegbuzie’s (2021) Framework for Promoting Anti-Racism in America, the foreword begins with sections that address the need to “engage in continuous self-reflection,” “listen more than you speak,” “whenever possible, collaborate with Black faculty,” and “refrain from conducting research that promotes cultural deficit models.” Thereafter, the voices of Dr. Aliya E. Holmes, Dr. David Bell, Kesshem Williams, and Leslie Laboriel underscore the courage necessary to share experiences and to engage in open dialogue; change is anything but silent.

scholarly journals What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110451
Author(s):  
Mariah Kornbluh ◽  
Leoandra Onnie Rogers ◽  
Joanna Lee Williams
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Developmental Science ◽  
The Status ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Multiple Ways Of Knowing

The second installment of the Special Issue “Critical Approaches to Adolescent Development: Reflections on theories and methods for pursuing anti-racist developmental science” focuses primarily on theory and the theoretical lenses that shape how we “see” adolescents. Such a focus is necessary for moving forward anti-racist adolescent research. Theories serve as starting points, establishing our assumptions about what we know, the place where we move from. We cannot “do” better research if we do not take stock of what we “know” and more critically “how” we know it. The authors in this issue do this with candor, clarity, and intentionality, offering us theoretical frames that identify, name, and destabilize the status quo. They offer us anti-racist lenses and language to (re)define what adolescence and adolescent development is and does—and what it ought to be. They present theories that embed action and activism, that move us—across disciplines, outside of academic spaces, and into spaces that are often silenced and invisible. They shift our vision from objective, white-centric knowledge to multiple ways of knowing. It is our hope that the contributions in this double Special Issue will change how we see and do research with adolescents, and also change us as scholars and humans.

Introduction: Practicing Anthropology in Latin America

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Guerrón-Montero
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
Experience Education ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Conducting Research

The purpose of this special issue is to highlight the experiences, challenges, projects, research, and accomplishments of scholars and practitioners based in Latin America. The articles in this issue encompass research on gender and ethnicity, children's rights in urban contexts, as well as the fieldwork experience, education, and anthropological trends. The authors focus on the methodological approaches that have been especially useful to them, the particularities and limitations of conducting research and teaching in Latin America, and the creativity needed to overcome chronically inadequate funding. This collection also provides a venue for scholars in Latin America to publish their findings in the United States, and to contribute to the development of a dialogue on anthropological practice.

Political Science Research in the Middle East and North Africa

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Personal Accounts

Based on personal accounts of their experiences conducting qualitative and quantitative research in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the contributors to this volume share the real-life obstacles they have encountered in applying research methods in practice and the possible solutions to overcome them. The volume is an important companion book to more standard methods books, which focus on the “how to” of methods but are often devoid of any real discussion of the practicalities, challenges, and common mistakes of fieldwork. The volume is divided into three parts, highlighting the challenges of (1) specific contexts, including conducting research in areas of violence; (2) a range of research methods, including interviewing, process-tracing, ethnography, experimental research, and the use of online media; and (3) the ethics of field research. In sharing their lessons learned, the contributors raise issues of concern to both junior and experienced researchers, particularly those of the Global South but also to those researching the Global North.

scholarly journals Tinkering With the Plumbing of Sustainable Enterprises: The Case for Field Experimental Research in Corporate Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 108602662110286
Author(s):  
Andrew Spicer ◽  
Marcus Wagner ◽  
Maurizio Zollo
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Sustainability Strategies ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
Randomized Control

In this introduction, we first review the lessons learned in development economics about the ability of randomized control trials to analyse what Duflo refers to as the “plumbing problems” of policy implementation, as opposed to “engineering problems” of policy design. We then examine the papers published within this special issue from a plumbing-based perspective to highlight the benefits of the co-creation of knowledge in corporate sustainability through a field-based experimental agenda. We finally propose that field-based experiments can radically influence the future development of our (and related) fields of inquiry in three ways: (1) focusing on the implementation processes of sustainability strategies, (2) shifting attention from the analysis of past events to the design of future actions, and (3) yielding our role as sole owners of the knowledge development process and agreeing to shared ownership with the organizations we study.

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