Full Description
This book challenges the paradigms that seek to dominate and constrain academic research.
Paradigms underpin the research environment, pushing academics to conduct research and publish their work in certain ways. Indicators of a need for paradigmatic change can be seen when existing systems are under strain, dominated by zombie paradigms that are outdated for the needs of the contemporary era but refuse to step aside. This book is situated around a series of narratives from those attempting to tackle a variety of zombies. They are book-ended by discussions around how these zombie paradigms came to be, why they need slaying, how that can be done, and what the outcome may be.
Identifying these zombies across qualitative and quantitative research, research student supervision, the publication of research, and how researchers engage with people and communities, the book offers an important resource for all those engaged in research.
Contents
List of Figures List of Tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introductions: The zombie slayers by Neil Carr Narratives 1. We're the researchers. This can't be our camp to save by Mandi Baker, Luc S. Cousineau, & Teresa Hill 2. Zombie as contagion: The politics of visibility and field research in authoritarian contexts by Alice Beban & Laura Schoenberger 3. Challenging the zombie paradigm of doctoral supervision by Sarah Carr 4. Night of the living bots: The zombie problem in survey methodology by Kimberly Coleman, Jessica Leahy, & Elizabeth E. Perry 5. Turning 'otherness' inside-out: On vulnerability, epistemic-ontological dislocation and belonging during and after fieldwork by Monika Hirmer 6. Freedom of information, parks, and firewood by Chris Hurst 7. Managing change: Researching in a field that hasn't engaged (much) with theory by John Pierce 8. Envisioning a new academy that (truly) supports community-engaged scholarship by Julie Stafford Son 9. Debunking the myth of the next best place by Julie Tate 10. The thinking dead: A funeral procession for boring writing and the importance of retaining rigor (mortis) by Paul Tully & Justin Harmon Conclusions: Dancing with Zombies by Neil Carr Index
