HRTS 4399: Human Rights Undergraduate Research: Overview

This book advances thinking on human rights methodology, offering instruction and guidance on the methodological approaches to human rights research. Gives a comprehensive treatment of disciplinary approaches and discusses methodological options and provides advice on how best to conduct human rights research in the crossroads of different academic disciplines.

This book offers a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives.

This book explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, "So what?"

This book contains updated references and a comprehensive overview of different approaches to PAR (pragmatic, psychosocial, critical); emphasis on the art of process design; developments in the use of Web2 collaborative tools and digital strategies; updated examples and stories; critical commentaries on major issues in the social sciences.

Examines how student protest against structural inequalities on campus pushes academic institutions to reckon with their legacy built on slavery and stolen Indigenous lands. Using campus social justice movements as an entry point, this shows how the struggles in higher education often directly challenged the tension between narratives of education as a pathway to improvement and the structural reality of settler colonialism that creates and protects wealth for a select few.

Addresses and examines health inequalities from an anti-racist and anti-oppressive standpoint.

This 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 methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.

Explores how personal narratives emerge in local settings; how international rights discourse enables and constrains individual and collective subjectivities in narration; how personal narratives circulate and take on new meanings in new contexts; and how and under what conditions they feed into, affect, and are affected by the reorganizations of politics in the post cold war, postcolonial, globalizing human rights contexts.

Brings together Indigenous researchers and activists from Canada, Australia and New Zealand to assert the unique value of Indigenous storywork as a focus of research and to develop methodologies that rectify the colonial attitudes inherent in much past and current scholarship.