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Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy

Katharyne Mitchell

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 biology Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audience Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics--one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while remaining within a university system Provides a broad prescription for social change, both within and outside the university

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release: October 27, 2008

ISBN: 1405189126

ISBN 13: 9781405189125

Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy

Katharyne Mitchell

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 biology Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audience Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics--one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while remaining within a university system Provides a broad prescription for social change, both within and outside the university

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release: October 27, 2008

ISBN: 1405189126

ISBN 13: 9781405189125

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