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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy

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Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy


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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