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OverviewThe entrepreneurial university has been tasked with making an impact. This collection presents professional-personal reflections on research experience and interpretative accounts of navigating fieldwork and broader publics, politics and practices of (dis)engagement primarily through a feminist, queer and gender studies lens. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Y. TaylorPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.777kg ISBN: 9781137275868ISBN 10: 1137275863 Pages: 284 Publication Date: 27 May 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational 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 ContentsIntroduction: The Entrepreneurial University: Engaging Publics, Intersecting Impacts; Yvette Taylor PART I: (NON)ACADEMIC SUBJECT: OCCUPATIONAL ACTIVISM 1. Academia without Walls? Multiple Belongings and the Implications of Feminist and Queer Political Engagement; Ana Cristina Santos 2. Dancing on the Intersections of (Un)Acceptability: Reflections/flextions on Disengagement in Higher Education; Rachela Colosi 3. Participation Beyond Boundaries: Working as, with and for Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans Communities; Kath Browne and Leela Bakshi 4. Rules of Engagement beyond the Gates: Negotiating and Capitalising on Student 'Experience'; Victoria G Mountford 5. Queer Business: Towards Queering the Business School; Nick Rumens PART II: MEDIATED (DIS)ENGAGEMENTS AND CREATIVE PUBLICS 6. Engaging with 'Impact' Agendas? Reflections on Storytelling as Knowledge Exchange; Francesca Stella 7. The Practice of Transnational Affective Encounter in Contemporary Visual Arts; Laura Lovin 8. Creativity, Community and Participation: Researching Spaces of Connectivity with 'Creative Publics'; Yvonne Robinson 9. Creative Agents and the Visual: Affects and Embodiment in the Research Process; Ava Kanyeredzi, Paula Reavey and Steven D. Brown PART III: ENDURING INTERSECTIONS, PROVOKING DIRECTIONS 10. Provocations, Politics and the (Im)Possibility of Counter-Public(s); Deirdre Conlon, Nicholas Gill, Imogen Tyler, and Ceri Oeppen 11. Dialogue or Duel?: A Critical Reflection on the (Gendered) Politics of Engaging and Impacting; Jocey Quinn, Kim Allen, Sumi Hollingworth, Uvanney Maylor, Jayne Osgood and Anthea Rose 12. Mixing Race: A Public Affair?; Chamion Caballero 13. Placing Research: 'City Publics' and the 'Public Sociologist'; Yvette Taylor and Michelle Addison 14. Safe Feminist Spaces: Reflections about the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers-New Brunswick; Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah TobiasReviewsGovernment policies seek to enhance the impact of research. Whose use is valued? Whose knowledge counts and is counted? The essays in this important collection address the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that are emerging. They pose fundamental questions for public social science that all of us need to consider. - John Holmwood, President, British Sociological Association, UK As the membrane separating the university from the wider society thins, as commodification and rationalization becomes the order of the day, so there is a struggle for the future of the university. This forward-thinking book breaks down conventional academic barriers between and within disciplines, as well as between the university and its environment, to develop critical and engaged approaches to the production and circulation of knowledge. In so doing the essays embark on the long and arduous process of reinventing the university - a university accessible and accountable to a broad range of publics. - Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, USA Government policies seek to enhance the impact of research. Whose use is valued? Whose knowledge counts and is counted? The essays in this important collection address the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that are emerging. They pose fundamental questions for public social science that all of us need to consider. - John Holmwood, President, British Sociological Association, UK As the membrane separating the university from the wider society thins, as commodification and rationalization becomes the order of the day, so there is a struggle for the future of the university. This forward-thinking book breaks down conventional academic barriers between and within disciplines, as well as between the university and its environment, to develop critical and engaged approaches to the production and circulation of knowledge. In so doing the essays embark on the long and arduous process of reinventing the university a university accessible and accountable to a broad range of publics. - Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, USA This collection makes clear the challenges and opportunities that the neo-liberal university brings with it and invites the reader to take up a more critical stance towards the processes and policies that come with it and poses a whole range of questions of what public engagement currently is and what it might be. - Jon Rainford, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research blog Government policies seek to enhance the impact of research. Whose use is valued? Whose knowledge counts and is counted? The essays in this important collection address the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that are emerging. They pose fundamental questions for public social science that all of us need to consider. - John Holmwood, President, British Sociological Association, UK As the membrane separating the university from the wider society thins, as commodification and rationalization becomes the order of the day, so there is a struggle for the future of the university. This forward-thinking book breaks down conventional academic barriers between and within disciplines, as well as between the university and its environment, to develop critical and engaged approaches to the production and circulation of knowledge. In so doing the essays embark on the long and arduous process of reinventing the university - a university accessible and accountable to a broad range of publics. - Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley, USA This collection makes clear the challenges and opportunities that the neo-liberal university brings with it and invites the reader to take up a more critical stance towards the processes and policies that come with it and poses a whole range of questions of what public engagement currently is and what it might be. - Jon Rainford, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research blog Author InformationAna Cristina Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal Rachela Colosi University of Lincoln, UK Kath Browne, University of Brighton, UK Leela Bakshi, Research Activist, UK Victoria G. Mountford, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, UK Nick Rumens, Middlesex University, UK Francesca Stella, University of Glasgow, UK Laura Lovin, Rutgers University, USA Yvonne Robinson, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, UK Ava Kanyeredzi, London Metropolitan University, UK Paula Reavey, London South Bank University, UK Steven D. Brown, University of Leicester, UK Deirdre Conlon, Saint Peter's University, USA Nicholas Gill, Exeter University, UK Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University, UK Ceri Oeppen, Sussex University, UK Jocey Quinn, University of Plymouth, UK Kim Allen, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Sumi Hollingworth, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, UK Uvanney Maylor, University of Bedfordshire, UK Jayne Osgood, London Metropolitan University, UK Anthea Rose, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK Chamion Caballero, Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, UK Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Rutgers-New Brunswick University, USA Sarah Tobias, Rutgers-New Brunswick University, USA Michelle Addison, Newcastle University, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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