Examining activist trajectories across fluid borders: three most welcome analytic shifts
(2018) Revue internationale de politique comparée — Vol. 25, n° 1-2, p. 7-11 (2018)
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Kernalegenn, Tudi 
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- This themed issue is very welcome because it invites analysts of activism and collective action to move beyond their area of comfort, and because it invites comparativists to question national boundaries and contexts. It also adopts a most welcome self-critical angle, taking two steps back: questioning the role of scholars as one type of stakeholder among several others, and questioning the use of languages (e.g. Arabic as a ‘language of testimony’ v/s English or French as a ‘scientific language’?) and scholarly concepts in a non-Western environment. Such a cautious approach is very much to be recommended for any social scientist, especially when examining societal contexts that are remote from those contexts that gave birth to most of the established (read: Western) scholarly literature.
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Rihoux, B., & Kernalegenn, T. (2018). Examining activist trajectories across fluid borders: three most welcome analytic shifts. Revue internationale de politique comparée, 25(1-2), 7-11. https://doi.org/10.3917/ripc.251.0007 (Original work published 2018)