ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how local media portrayed the issues associated with the encampment sweeps and focuses on 'troubling the work'. It presents ethical frames to assess the research and explores research ethics. The chapter introduces two professional codes along with the work of critical theorist and activist Edward Said on socially engaged scholarship and the role of the public intellectual. Said's career explored and exemplified the role of the academic and political responsibility. Using the frames of ethical and humanistic values, Said addressed the role of the intellectual in his Reith Lectures, published as Representations of the Intellectual. In the spirit of Said's 'constant alertness', an ethics of activist scholarship requires a praxis of constant questioning. It discusses the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) recommendations on Good Practice in Applied Linguistics, which speaks directly to our profession, and the Wingspread Declaration on renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University which particularly addresses public scholarship.
