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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 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

Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 26/09/2008
    ISBN13: 9781405189125, 978-1405189125
    ISBN10: 1405189126

    Number of Pages: 160

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    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 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

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