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Public Humanities

Engaging Community, Empowering Civic Discourse, and Reshaping Academia

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Engaged public scholarship is transforming the humanities. Divided into four parts, this provocative volume examines historical and contemporary sites of education and pedagogy, challenges dominant narratives about certain symbolic sites in the United States and across the Americas, highlights the struggle of marginalized communities as they wrestle to rewrite individual and collective memories of violence and trauma, and features public humanities projects that address themes relating to place and environment. Each chapter is concerned with the importance of personal relationships in educational settings, power relations in public humanities projects, and the nurturing of “new” civic spaces and places. This volume makes an important contribution to timely debates about public-facing and publicly engaged scholarship, especially in the humanities.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-01
Mått178 x 254 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransformations in Higher Education
Antal sidor290
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611865523

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Molly Todd is an independent scholar whose historical and public humanities work with refugees, human rights, and solidarity has been supported by the Whiting Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and other entities. Her monographs include Long Journey to Justice: El Salvador, the United States, and Struggles against Empire and Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War.Jason E. Cohen is an independent scholar who works and lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

“Many people labor under the misapprehension that humanistic work is limited to quiet study and reflection. This volume spotlights the humanities in robust action in all sorts of places: parks, gardens, prisons, rodeos, museums, grammar-school classrooms, and community council meetings. It gives voice to professors, miners, farmers, activists, and many other co-creators of historical and cultural understandings. The projects described here are local and small in scale, but their commitment to political and social change through told truths show that the humanities is a plural, world-broadening, world-improving enterprise.” — Joy Connolly, scholar of ancient Roman thought, and president of the American Council of Learned Societies