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Research Methods and Design
From: Resisting Eviction
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In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, which is a form of qualitative inquiry conducted with and for social movements. Political activist ethnography begins from an activist standpoint, emphasizing that activists hold knowledge and insight into the social forces and institutions they are organizing and struggling against. Moving beyond documenting social struggle, this approach seeks to invigorate progressive social change by investigating and disrupting the organizing logics of ruling relations.
Contributors
Andrew Crosby
Andrew Crosby is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo, with a PhD in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. He is co-author of Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018, Fernwood).
