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    Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy

    By Katharyne Mitchell

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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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateJul 26, 2011
    ISBN9781444355567
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