Practising Public Scholarship

Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy
Herausgeber: Mitchell, Katharyne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book provides a collection of 20 chapters describing the journey to public scholarship. It is a cross-disciplinary exploration of the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide. The contributors come from a variety of departments including geography, comparative literature, sociology, communications, history, and biology and are involved in widely disparate ventures outside of the universities. What unites this incongruent crew is their effort to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible. Pulling in those people and concepts often ignored in normative academic settings, this book opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics--one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation. The chapters are personal biographies which, taken together, provide a broad prescription for social change, both within and outside the university.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189125
• ISBN-10: 1405189126
• Artikelnr.: 25533427

Autorenporträt

Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography and the Simpson Professor in the Public Humanities at the University of Washington. Her research and teaching focus on urban development, education, and migration. From 2004 to 2007 she was the founding director of Reclaiming Childhood, an interdisciplinary and community oriented collaboration examining the changing nature of American childhood under neoliberalism. See http: //www.reclaimingchildhood.org. Recent books include Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis (2004) and, with Sallie Marston and Cindi Katz, Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (Blackwell, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Becoming Political (Katharyne Mitchell).

1. Comrades and Colons (Terry Eagleton).

2. Tales of Western Adventure (Patricia Limerick).

3. Open Letter to C. Wright Mills (Michael Burawoy).

4. Craven Emotional Warriors (Melissa W. Wright).

5. Population, Environment, War, and Racism: Adventures of aPublic Scholar (Paul R. Ehrlich).

6. The Something We Can Do (David Domke).

7. Philadelphia Dreaming: Discovering Citizenship between theUniversity and the Schools (Julia Reinhard Lupton).

8. Beyond Positivism: Public Scholarship in Support of Health(Dennis Raphael).

9. Weaving Solidarity from Oneonta to Oxchuc (KatherineO'Donnell).

10. Demand the Possible: Journeys in Changing Our World as aPublic Activist-Scholar (Paul Chatterton).

11. Becoming a Scholar-Advocate: Participatory Research withChildren (Meghan Cope).

12. Why am I Engaged? (Walden Bello).

13. Drugs, Data, Race and Reaction: A Field Report (KatherineBeckett).

14. Confessions of a Desk-Bound Radical (Don Mitchell).

15. Becoming a Public Scholar to Improve the Health of the USPopulation (Stephen Bezruchka).

16. The Humanities and the Public Soul (Julie Ellison).

17. This Fist Called My Heart: Public Pedagogy in the Belly ofthe Beast (Peter McLaren).

18. The Surprising Sense of Hope (Jenny Pickerill).

19. The Making of a Public Intellectual (Howard Zinn).

20. When Theory Meets Politics (Doreen Massey).

Index.

Rezensionen

'Practicing Public Scholarship' provides a usefulresource for those thinking how to push forward the publicdimensions of their work." (The Sociological Imagination,June 2010)

"Highly recommended for faculty, this book raises someuncomfortable questions that "activist" scholars mustconfront." (International Journal of Social Welfare ,July 2009)"The role of the scholar/activist has never been more importantthan it is now. Practising Public Scholarship is one of thebest books on what it really means to be a public intellectual tobe published in years. It deserves a very wide readership."
-Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curruculumand Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University ofWisconsin, Madison

"At a time of collapsing visions and privatized politics,academics who connect their scholarly work with social issues andwork to translate personal concerns into public considerations, notonly contribute to a society that at the very least should becapable of questioning itself, but also provide an instance ofpolitics in which matters of knowledge, justice, and democracybecome mutually determining. Practising Public Scholarshipis an extraordinary testimony not only to the courage of engagedintellectuals, but also the importance of education as a crucialdemocratic public sphere. Everyone should read this book in orderto get a glimpse of the promise of not only public scholarship andcivic courage, but of democracy itself."
-Henry A. Giroux, Global Television Network Chair,McMaster University