Transforming Science

Theory and Practice
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-13415-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 153 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 216 g

Transforming Science: Theory and Practice is an accessible handbook aimed at scientists, researchers, and students interested in research for transformative social change. Readers learn to design and implement a research project that forwards scientific and social justice ends. Through conceptual tools, examples, and exercises that illustrate community-based research gone wrong and right, the book covers how scientific processes have been misused, how to develop non-hierarchical and long-term relations and practices, and how researchers can repair relations with communities and environments. Transforming Science is a guide for practicing the science we are for: science for and with the people.

Written by the Science, Transformation, Accountability, and Resistance (STAR) Collective

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zárate, Salvador

Vora, Kalindi

Varma, Saiba

Quintanilla, Leslie

Hanssmann, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. The Invitation, or How to Use this Handbook Self-Reflection Prompt: Understanding where I am A word of advice.- Chapter 2. Science with a capital–S.- Chapter 3. Slowing Down, Building Relations.- Chapter 4. Co-labbing with Care .- Chapter 5. Backpocket Methodology: Seven Radical Scientific Inquiries.

Über Autor(innen)

Christoph Hanssmann   is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. He has published articles in and and authored a chapter in (Temple Univ. Press 2012). His first book, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.

Leslie Quintanilla   is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. She earned her Ph.D. in ethnic studies, with a graduate certificate in critical gender studies, from University of California, San Diego, in 2019. Her book manuscript is titled, “Towards a Transnational ‘No Ban, No Wall’ Movement: Contemporary San Diego-Tijuana Border Activisms,” and she has published articles in journals including .

Saiba Varma ([e-mail]) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. She is affiliated with the Science Studies and Global Health programs as well. She is author of (Duke University Press, 2020), winner of the Edie Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing. She has written for public outlets including and

 Kalindi Vora   is Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and Ethnicity Race & Migration at Yale University. She is author of Routledge 2023), (with Neda Atanasoski, Duke UP 2019), and (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2015, Winner of the Rachel Carson Book Prize for Social and Political Impact), and with the Precarity Lab, the multigraph (Goldsmiths University Press, 2021).

Salvador Zárate is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine. Winner of the 2018 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for best dissertation by the American Studies Association, his reviews, essay, and creative works have appeared in , , University of Chicago’s from the Race & Capitalism Project, and in .