{"product_id":"practising-public-scholarship-9781405189125","title":"Practising Public Scholarship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contributions from departments of geography, comparative literature, sociology, communications, history, English, public health, and biology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audience\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOpens the way for a new kind of democratic politicsone based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while remaining within a university system\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a broad prescription for social change, both within and outside the university\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Practicing Public Scholarship' provides a useful resource for those thinking how to push forward the public dimensions of their work.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Sociological Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, June 2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  “Highly recommended for faculty, this book raises some uncomfortable questions that \"activist\" scholars must confront.” (\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Social Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e , July 2009)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Becoming Political (Katharyne Mitchell).  \u003cp\u003e1. Comrades and Colons (Terry Eagleton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Tales of Western Adventure (Patricia Limerick).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Open Letter to C. Wright Mills (Michael Burawoy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Craven Emotional Warriors (Melissa W. Wright).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Population, Environment, War, and Racism: Adventures of a Public Scholar (Paul R. Ehrlich).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Something We Can Do (David Domke).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Philadelphia Dreaming: Discovering Citizenship between the University and the Schools (Julia Reinhard Lupton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Beyond Positivism: Public Scholarship in Support of Health (Dennis Raphael).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Weaving Solidarity from Oneonta to Oxchuc (Katherine O’Donnell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Demand the Possible: Journeys in Changing Our World as a Public Activist-Scholar (Paul Chatterton).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Becoming a Scholar-Advocate: Participatory Research with Children (Meghan Cope).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Why am I Engaged? (Walden Bello).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Drugs, Data, Race and Reaction: A Field Report (Katherine Beckett).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Confessions of a Desk-Bound Radical (Don Mitchell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Becoming a Public Scholar to Improve the Health of the US Population (Stephen Bezruchka).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The Humanities and the Public Soul (Julie Ellison).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. This Fist Called My Heart: Public Pedagogy in the Belly of the Beast (Peter McLaren).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. The Surprising Sense of Hope (Jenny Pickerill).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The Making of a Public Intellectual (Howard Zinn).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. When Theory Meets Politics (Doreen Massey).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407921455447,"sku":"9781405189125","price":34.11,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/practising-public-scholarship-9781405189125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}