Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ruth BarcanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.589kg ISBN: 9781409436218ISBN 10: 1409436217 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 18 December 2013 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: private feelings, public contexts; The big shifts: massification, marketization and their consequences; The wellbeing of academics in the palimpsestic university; Pluralism and its discontents: teaching critical theory and the politics of hope; The idleness of academics: hopeful reflections on the usefulness of cultural studies; Feeling like a fraud: or, the upside of knowing you can never be good enough; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.Reviews'A deeply affecting book that will speak to the experiences of all precarious, time-pressured and surveilled academics who have found that working in the Academy is not what they expected. Ruth Barcan offers us both a powerful critique of life in the contemporary University, and a politics of hope that other, better ways are possible.'Rosalind Gill, King's College London, UK'Finally a book with the patience and perspective to explain the reality of work in the university today. Against the current regime of myopic productivity, Ruth Barcan offers her colleagues a vision of humility and hope. It is a vitalism that emerges when academics focus on the place that still matters and promises most: the classroom.' Melissa Gregg, University of California, Irvine, USA'Balanced, lucid and scrupulously enquiring, this is the best book I have read about the forces shaping everyday life in the new university and the dilemmas confronting teachers, researchers and students. Firmly based in the experience of work, Barcan's case for an ethics that does not leave us stranded between despair and resignation gives those of us who still value academic life good grounds for hope indeed.'Meaghan Morris, University of Sydney, Australia Author InformationRuth Barcan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses (2011), and Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy (2004). She is also co-editor of Imagining Australian Space: Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry (1999), and Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning (1997). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
