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E-book
Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the AcademyISBN: 978-1-4443-5556-7
E-book
160 pages
July 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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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



