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Book SynopsisThis edited collection explores and illustrates the nature of research for social justice. Drawing on a diverse range of social research projects, it sets out what a rights-based approach to research looks like, why this framework matters and how we can translate them into operational research.
Table of Contents1. Researching for social justice: an introduction - Kathryn McGarry, Ciara Bradley and Gloria Kirwan PART I: Contextualising and theorising research for social justice 2. Epistemic privilege as a social justice issue: knowing injustice and justice for knowers - Kathryn McGarry 3. Epistemology, research design and social justice - Ciara Bradley and Lynsey Kavanagh 4. Using a social justice lens in research engagements for community work and youth work practice - Sinead McMahon, Ciara Bradley and Hilary Tierney PART II: Designing and operationalising methodologies for social justice 5. Using Poststructural Policy Analysis for social justice - Sinead McMahon 6. Research with deaf and hard-of-hearing women: reimagining social justice as flourishing - Grainne Meehan 7. Sanctuary: trespassing the enclosure of rights - David Donovan 8. Using peer engagement to support the participation of people who use drugs in research - Brian Melaugh and Andy O’Hara PART III: Exploring case studies in research for social justice 9. Beyond research extractivism in environmental justice research - Jamie Gorman 10. When objects speak louder than words: material ethnography in social justice research - Gloria Kirwan and Calvin Swords 11. An expanded conceptualisation and definition of engaged research - Rory Hearne 12. Social justice as tool and process in research: progressing insight into children’s right to participation through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Breda O’Driscoll and Gloria Kirwan 13. The potential for Q-Methodology in promoting human rights and social justice: a case of social workers in practice research - Johanna O’Shea 14. Reflecting as a pracademic in policy land: using research and practice to advance social justice in the hate crime policy domain - Seamus Taylor 15. Concluding thoughts - Kathryn McGarry, Ciara Bradley and Gloria Kirwan
