“Knowledge co-production with social movement networks. Redefining grassroots politics, rethinking research” by SWOP associate Alberto Arribas Lozano has been awarded first place for the Jeff Juris Memorial Prize for best article using ethnographic methods. The prize honours the best article published in the Social Movement Studies journal in the past three years. Lozano drafted this article when he was based at SWOP as a postdoctoral fellow.
The jury commended this article for incarnating Jeff Juris' ideal of political commitment in ethnographic research. In this article, Arribas Lozano analyzes how he co-produced knowledge with Spanish grassroots activists tied with the Oficinas de Derechos Sociales (the Network of Offices for Social Rights) for more than five years. The author demonstrates that researcher/activist co-produced knowledge is a powerful transformative tool for social change, questioning conventional understandings of the very meaning of knowledge in social movement scholarship.
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