Mitchell Practising Public Scholarship

Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5556-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journeyto public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perilsassociated with breaching the town-gown divide.
* Includes contributions from departments of geography,comparative literature, sociology, communications, history,English, public health, and biology
* Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to maketheir ideas and research broadly accessible to a wideraudience
* Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics--onebased on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation
* Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becominga public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, whileremaining within a university system
* Provides a broad prescription for social change, both withinand outside the university

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitchell, Katharyne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).