1st Edition

Globalizing the Research Imagination

Edited By Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey Copyright 2009
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are encouraged to develop 'defiant' global imaginations and communities with the capacities to think, 'be' and 'become' differently in a world of research increasingly governed by rampant reductionist rationality. To support this view there follows... Read more

Acknowledgements List of interviewees 1.Imagining Research Otherwise 2.Arjun Appadurai: The shifting ground from which we speak 3.Raewyn Connell: Peripheral visions; beyond the metropole 4.Doreen Massey: Responsibilities over distance 5.Aihwa Ong: On being human and ethical living 6.Fazal Rizvi: Mobile minds 7.Saskai Sassen: Digging in the shadows Bibliography Index

Biography

Jane Kenway is Professor of Global Education Studies in the Education Faculty at Monash University, Australia.

Johannah Fahey is Research Fellow in the Education Faculty at Monash University, Australia.

'Overall, the book is an enjoyable and stimulating read. The interviews entice the reader to go read or reread the inspirational works of distinguished intellectuals, while the book’s emphasis on the location of both knowledge and the researcher is crucial in challenging disciplinary boundaries and hegemonic epistemologies, thus opening up ‘opportunities for thinking about globalization in fresh ways’. In particular, it should be of great interest to graduate students and young researchers, not just in globalisation, but across the social sciences.' - Bruno Charbonneau, Millennium - Journal of International Studies 2011 40: 194