Thread by @RuthHallPLAAS

"A good academic is prim, respectful and clinical.

A good activist is irreverent, subversive and passionate."

How do scholar-activists navigate these contradictions?

Fantastic session ion with Prof Jun Borras at #JPSWriteshop - follow this to see outcome of today's event!

"Scholar activists should stop regarding themselves as martyrs. We are activists because of the joy political work gives us, because even when we fail, working to make society kinder, fairer, more just, gives a satisfaction like no other...." 1/2 #JPSWriteshop

2/2 ....because the comrades we find in the effort are friends like no other, and also because our activist efforts illuminate our social & political world in ways that scholarship alone never can." - Frances Fox Piven onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #JPSWriteshop

What's scholar-activism? In a time when universities are squeezed, academics are pressured into consultancy, activism is not valued, movements want research, there are contradictions to be confronted..... Not always an easy space (but read on). #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal

Scholar-activism is not inherently progressive. @ricadojacobs90 argues that right-wing has its own scholar-activists supporting their agenda. What's critical about critical agrarian studies is that it is about a transition towards socialism. #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal

"You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future” - Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso, 1985. @Peasant_Journal #JPSWriteshop

"Taking the gown to town": Dr Dzifa Torvikey from @UGLEGON talks about her experiences working as an academic with women's food justice movements in Ghana & Cambodia. Popularising #righttofood is both an activist & academic process #JPSWriteshop @Peasant_Journal @DzodziTsikata