Downs / Manion Taking Back the Academy!

History of Activism, History as Activism
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-93542-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downs, Jim

Manion, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, Eric Foner
James T. Downs, Jr. and Jennifer Manion, Bench Talk

I. Student Activism
Student Movements -- Beyond the University
Eileen Eagan, Teaching Student Activism
Vania Markarian, Debating Tlatelolco: Thirty Years of Public Debates about the Mexican Student Movement of 1968
Martin Klimke, Between Berlin and Berkeley, Frankfurt and San Francisco: The Student Movements of the 1960s in Transatlantic Perspective

II. Students in Unions -- Rethinking the University
Anita Seth, Unionizing for a More Democratic and Responsive University
Kimberly Phillips-Fein, "What is a University? Anti-Union Campaigns in Academia"
John McMillian, Where Have All the Politics Gone? A Graduate Student's Reflections

III. Academic Activism: Historians for Social Justice
Nancy A. Hewitt, The Glass Tower: Half Full or Half Empty?
David Rosner, Toxic Torts: Historians in the Courtroom
Glenda Gilmore, "The Most Craven Abdication of Democratic Principles": On the U.S. Attack in Iraq

IV. Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Activism
Drucilla Cornell and Kitty Krupat, Forging Activist Alliances: Identity, Identification, & Position
Jennifer Manion, Calling All Liberals; or, Connecting Feminist Theory, Activism, and History
Kathleen M. Brown and Tracey M. Weis, Producing for Use and Teaching the Whole Student: Can Pedagogy be a Form of Activism?
James T. Downs, Jr., Teaching Across the Color Line: A Warning About Identity Politics in the Classroom
Jesse Lemisch, 2.5 Cheers for Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Activism; Or Stay and Fight. To Which is added an Account of Radical Scholars/Activists in the Wake of the Iraq War

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Downs is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. Jennifer Manion is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Rutgers University.