The Third Space as Critical Engagement

Routledge, Paul

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8330.1996.tb00533.x

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“…Despite these difficulties, I would argue however, that a `third-space' (Routledge 1996) between researcher and researched, academic and activist, was occupied and that the projects have had partially successful outcomes with articles in internationally refereed journals. The extent to which the research will change the `practical' conditions of disabled people has yet to be assessed.…”

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Using Participatory Action Research Approaches in Geographical Studies of Disability: Some Reflections

Kitchin¹

2001

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Introducing current debates in disability researchIn short, the challenge is to pursue a geography with disabled people which seeks the goals of material justice and political emancipation that are shared by contemporary movements. (Gleeson 1996: 395) There have been several recent debates both within disability studies and geography about how disability issues should be researched and who should conduct such research. This debate has primarily centred on ideology and ethics, but has also focused on methodology per se.The debate in disability studies has centred on the arguments of a group of mainly British sociologists, Barnes (1992), Oliver (1992Oliver ( , 1999, Stone and Priestley (1996), andZarb (1992) (also see collections edited by Rioux andBach 1994 andBarnes andMercer 1997). These scholars argued that traditional research on disability issues is flawed and problematic in a number of respects. Most crucially, they suggested that disability research is not representative of disabled peoples' experiences and knowledges. This, they contended, was because a vast majority of research is conducted by non-disabled researchers. They argued that it is only disabled people who can know what it is like to be disabled and so only disabled people who can truly interpret and present data from other disabled people. Moreover, they noted that research concerning disability is invariably researcher-orientated based around the desires and agendas of the (non-disabled) researcher and able-bodied funding agencies rather than subject(s) of the research (disabled people).Indeed, Oliver (1992) argued that traditional research methodologies represent a `rape model of research' which is alienating and disempowers and disenfranchises disabled research participants by placing their knowledge into the hands of the researcher to interpret and make recommendations on their behalf. Researchers are compounding the oppression of disabled respondents through exploitation for academic gain. Drawing on work within feminism in particular, they argued that power-relations within the research process needs to be destabilized

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Using Participatory Action Research Approaches in Geographical Studies of Disability: Some Reflections

Kitchin¹

2001

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“…On a first level, enacting a minor ethics in the field has meant supporting these people in their protest; being there with them in the street almost every day, sharing the cold evenings in front of a fire, listening to their stories, giving them a place to sleep in my flat, to take showers or wash their clothes, but also following and documenting the whole process, moving in that third space between academia and activism argued for by Routledge (1996). In this regard, an important role of my endeavours as an activist has been to present a visual ethnography of the community's daily protest, by producing videos and photos, as well as an online blog that I set up and manage following an idea from a young Roma woman evicted from her home, ii in order to render their story more visible.…”

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Micropolitical entanglements: Positioning and matter

Lancione

2017

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“…"'[t]he political is not only personal, it is a commitment to deconstruct the barrier between the academy and the lives of the people it professes to represent'" (Kobayashi in Nast 1994: 57). Paul Routledge's (1996: 411) conceptualisation of 'critical engagement' as 'third space' is useful here: foregrounding the ways in which activism and academia interconnect, he suggests that "critical engagement enables research to become a personal and reflexive project of resistance." Such thinking resonates closely with long developed feminist critiques which outline how 'we' embody our construction of knowledge through our inter/subjectivity/ies (eg.…”

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‘That's just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activism

Askins

2009

Emotion, Space and Society

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In this paper, I wish to critically reflect on the role of emotion/s in how I position myself with regards to research, teaching and learning, drawing on experiences over the past three years as a human geography lecturer 'doing' research with refugees and asylum seekers in a local inner city area. While there has been increasing debate regarding what constitutes 'the activist academic', in particular deconstructing any dualism or border between 'academic' and 'activist', the motivation for undertaking such a role is generally ascribed to an 'ideological commitment' to social and personal change of one type or another. For me, such a commitment cannot be separated from how I feel about the issues that I research, learn and teach about. In particular, I explore how emotions relate across different spaces and places in my life to produce motivation for activism and how that activism -specifically the encounters with people through it -feeds back into emotional geographies across my professional (and personal) endeavours. More broadly, I'm concerned with the ways in which emotional becomings and the interconnectivities across spaces of activity/ism and everyday life play out beyond my own individual subjective experience, but rather are caught up in 'situated, relational perspectives' (after Bondi, 2005). I argue that recognising the significance of emotion has implications for how we conduct and disseminate research.

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The Third Space as Critical Engagement

Cited by 190 publications

References 30 publications

Using Participatory Action Research Approaches in Geographical Studies of Disability: Some Reflections

Using Participatory Action Research Approaches in Geographical Studies of Disability: Some Reflections

Micropolitical entanglements: Positioning and matter

‘That's just what I do’: Placing emotion in academic activism

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