Researching Resistance

Researching Resistance: Public Education After Neoliberalism serves two vital functions. First, it explores, explicates, and encourages critical qualitative research that engages the arts and born-digital scholarship. Second, it offers options for understanding neoliberalism, revealing its impact on communities, and resisting it as ideology, practice, and law. The book delves intostrategies for engaging neoliberalismthe Black feminist cyborg theoretical assumptions and intentions of the ethnographic web-based film projectthe research and arts-based methodology that walks the fault line between film and ethnography, andthe relationships between the researcher, the activist organizations, and the activism.While the book will focus on neoliberalism within the realm of public education, the implications extending to many other areas of public life.

This is an excellent text for classes in qualitative research and public policy. It is the companion text to the digital native ethnographic film project entitled Public Education|Participatory Democracy After Neoliberalism.