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Katharyne Mitchell - Practising Public Scholarship, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Practising Public Scholarship

Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy

Av Katharyne Mitchell

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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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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).

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‘Practicing Public Scholarship' provides a useful resource for those thinking how to push forward the public dimensions of their work." (The Sociological Imagination, June 2010) “Highly recommended for faculty, this book raises some uncomfortable questions that "activist" scholars must confront.” (International Journal of Social Welfare , July 2009)

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