Practising Public Scholarship

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A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journeyto public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perilsassociated 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 maketheir ideas and research broadly accessible to a wideraudience * Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics--onebased on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation * Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becominga public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, whileremaining within a university system * Provides a broad prescription for social change, both withinand outside the university

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Katharyne Mitchell

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'Practicing Public Scholarship' provides a usefulresource for those thinking how to push forward the publicdimensions of their work." (The Sociological Imagination,June 2010) "Highly recommended for faculty, this book raises someuncomfortable questions that "activist" scholars mustconfront." (International Journal of Social Welfare ,July 2009)"The role of the scholar/activist has never been more importantthan it is now. Practising Public Scholarship is one of thebest books on what it really means to be a public intellectual tobe published in years. It deserves a very wide readership." -Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curruculumand Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University ofWisconsin, Madison "At a time of collapsing visions and privatized politics,academics who connect their scholarly work with social issues andwork to translate personal concerns into public considerations, notonly contribute to a society that at the very least should becapable of questioning itself, but also provide an instance ofpolitics in which matters of knowledge, justice, and democracybecome mutually determining. Practising Public Scholarshipis an extraordinary testimony not only to the courage of engagedintellectuals, but also the importance of education as a crucialdemocratic public sphere. Everyone should read this book in orderto get a glimpse of the promise of not only public scholarship andcivic courage, but of democracy itself." -Henry A. Giroux, Global Television Network Chair,McMaster University
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