Making Sense of Multiple Conversations: Research, Teaching, and Activism in and with Communities in South African Cities
| dc.contributor.author | Oldfield, Sophie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-29T08:08:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-29T08:08:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-13T08:13:11Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the South African context, our research is produced in multiple conversations that include conventional academic disciplinary communities, but extends beyond the university, engaging with a range of social and political institutions and actors. As a result, the relationship between research, theory and politics frames our research in explicit and implicit ways. I draw here on my own practice as a researcher, teacher, and activist to examine the ways in which my engagement with community organizations articulates into conventional university activities of research and teaching; but, as importantly, the ways in which it is shaped by community-based agenda that not only inform the research but sustain the relationships critical to my research. I conclude that the overlapping nature of research, teaching and activism is more than a political and contextual imperative, potentially it is a theoretical strength that adds depth, reflexivity, and, in the relationships built, the construction of robust urban knowledge. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Oldfield, S. (2007). Making Sense of Multiple Conversations: Research, Teaching, and Activism in and with Communities in South African Cities. <i>South African Geographical Journal/ Suid-Afrikaanse Geografiese Tydskrif</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28174 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Oldfield, Sophie "Making Sense of Multiple Conversations: Research, Teaching, and Activism in and with Communities in South African Cities." <i>South African Geographical Journal/ Suid-Afrikaanse Geografiese Tydskrif</i> (2007) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28174 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Oldfield, S. (2007). Making sense of multiple conversations: research, teaching, and activism in and with communities in South African cities. South African Geographical Journal= Suid-Afrikaanse Geografiese Tydskrif, 89(2), 104-110. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - AU - Oldfield, Sophie AB - In the South African context, our research is produced in multiple conversations that include conventional academic disciplinary communities, but extends beyond the university, engaging with a range of social and political institutions and actors. As a result, the relationship between research, theory and politics frames our research in explicit and implicit ways. I draw here on my own practice as a researcher, teacher, and activist to examine the ways in which my engagement with community organizations articulates into conventional university activities of research and teaching; but, as importantly, the ways in which it is shaped by community-based agenda that not only inform the research but sustain the relationships critical to my research. I conclude that the overlapping nature of research, teaching and activism is more than a political and contextual imperative, potentially it is a theoretical strength that adds depth, reflexivity, and, in the relationships built, the construction of robust urban knowledge. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Geographical Journal/ Suid-Afrikaanse Geografiese Tydskrif LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Making Sense of Multiple Conversations: Research, Teaching, and Activism in and with Communities in South African Cities TI - Making Sense of Multiple Conversations: Research, Teaching, and Activism in and with Communities in South African Cities UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28174 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28174 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Oldfield S. Making Sense of Multiple Conversations: Research, Teaching, and Activism in and with Communities in South African Cities. South African Geographical Journal/ Suid-Afrikaanse Geografiese Tydskrif. 2007; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28174. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Environmental and Geographical Science | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Science | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Geographical Journal/ Suid-Afrikaanse Geografiese Tydskrif | |
| dc.source.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsag20 | |
| dc.title | Making Sense of Multiple Conversations: Research, Teaching, and Activism in and with Communities in South African Cities | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
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