Cite as:
Okune, Angela and Adams, James. 2018. "Querying Collaboration in Political Practice/Praxis." In PhD Orals Document: Querying Analyses of Collaboration, created by Angela Okune and James Adams. PhD Orals Document. UC Irvine Anthropology. October.
This section foregrounds artifacts that have looked at collaborative formations that are part of the political practice and implementation of research findings/insights.
The following description (drafted prior to reading the works) outlines how we were thinking about this particular research life cycle phase:
JA (July 2018): This is where my interest in what I have been calling “data ideologies” comes in. I am interested in how different collectives, operating within different domains of expertise, have different ideas about what data “does” in different contexts. To be more specific, I am wanting to read critical data studies literature on how different groups of people conceive of the relationship between processes of data, knowledge, information production and those of strategic social action/change.
This essay is part of a broader orals document querying collaborative formations. Works were categoried under one part of the “research life cycle” as a heuristic. Sub-essays within the orals doc can be accessed directly through the following links: Research Design (Artifacts | Analysis); Data Gathering and Production (Artifacts | Analysis); Data Analysis (Artifacts | Analysis); Artifact Production (Artifacts | Analysis); Dissemination (Artifacts | Analysis); Political Practice (Artifacts | Analysis).
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