Critical-Cultural Communication Activism Research Calls for Academic Solidarity
Abstract
This essay underscores Kevin M. Carragee and Lawrence R. Frey’s call for communication researchers to engage in more interventions to advance social justice. Furthermore, I argue that communication activism research (CAR) and critical-cultural communication research (CCCR) make productive partners because both approaches oppose oppression. Several recent critical-cultural CAR and CAR-enabling research projects illustrate such productive potential, suggest ways to overcome obstacles, and explain how to realize social justice within and beyond the academy. Finally, I call for academic solidarity as a force that will enable social justice to be achieved, as CCCR and CAR intend.
Abstract
This essay underscores Kevin M. Carragee and Lawrence R. Frey’s call for communication researchers to engage in more interventions to advance social justice. Furthermore, I argue that communication activism research (CAR) and critical-cultural communication research (CCCR) make productive partners because both approaches oppose oppression. Several recent critical-cultural CAR and CAR-enabling research projects illustrate such productive potential, suggest ways to overcome obstacles, and explain how to realize social justice within and beyond the academy. Finally, I call for academic solidarity as a force that will enable social justice to be achieved, as CCCR and CAR intend.
