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Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy (Antipode Book Series)

By Katharyne Mitchell

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2008
ISBN
1405189126, 9781405189125
LCC
LC237 .P73 2008
Open Library ID
OL16958245M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
960 kB (982745 bytes)
Series
Antipode Book Series
Edition
1
Pages
160\160
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide.Includes contributions from departments of geography, comparative literature, sociology, communications, history, English, public health, and biologyDiscusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audienceOpens the way for a new kind of democratic politics—one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participationIncludes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while remaining within a university systemProvides a broad prescription for social change, both within and outside the university

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