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
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction: Becoming Political (Katharyne Mitchell).
1. Comrades and Colons (Terry Eagleton).
2. Tales of Western Adventure (Patricia Limerick).
3. Open Letter to C. Wright Mills (Michael Burawoy).
4. Craven Emotional Warriors (Melissa W. Wright).
5. Population, Environment, War, and Racism: Adventures of a
Public Scholar (Paul R. Ehrlich).
6. The Something We Can Do (David Domke).
7. Philadelphia Dreaming: Discovering Citizenship between the
University and the Schools (Julia Reinhard Lupton).
8. Beyond Positivism: Public Scholarship in Support of Health
(Dennis Raphael).
9. Weaving Solidarity from Oneonta to Oxchuc (Katherine
O’Donnell).
10. Demand the Possible: Journeys in Changing Our World as a
Public Activist-Scholar (Paul Chatterton).
11. Becoming a Scholar-Advocate: Participatory Research with
Children (Meghan Cope).
12. Why am I Engaged? (Walden Bello).
13. Drugs, Data, Race and Reaction: A Field Report (Katherine
Beckett).
14. Confessions of a Desk-Bound Radical (Don Mitchell).
15. Becoming a Public Scholar to Improve the Health of the US
Population (Stephen Bezruchka).
16. The Humanities and the Public Soul (Julie Ellison).
17. This Fist Called My Heart: Public Pedagogy in the Belly of
the Beast (Peter Mc Laren).
18. The Surprising Sense of Hope (Jenny Pickerill).
19. The Making of a Public Intellectual (Howard Zinn).
20. When Theory Meets Politics (Doreen Massey).
Index.
Circa l’autore
Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography and the Simpson Professor in the Public Humanities at the University of Washington. Her research and teaching focus on urban development, education, and migration. From 2004 to 2007 she was the founding director of Reclaiming Childhood, an interdisciplinary and community oriented collaboration examining the changing nature of American childhood under neoliberalism. See http://www.reclaimingchildhood.org. Recent books include Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis (2004) and, with Sallie Marston and Cindi Katz, Life’s Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (Blackwell, 2004).
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