Book description
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
Katharyne Mitchell
is Professor of Geography and the Simpson Professor in the Public
Humanities at the University of Washington. Her research and teaching
focus on urban development, education, and migration. From 2004 to 2007
she was the founding director of
Reclaiming Childhood
, an interdisciplinary and community oriented collaboration examining
the changing nature of American childhood under neoliberalism. See
http://www. reclaimingchildhood. org. Recent books include
Crossing
the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis
(2004) and, with Sallie Marston and Cindi Katz,
Life's Work:
Geographies of Social Reproduction
(Blackwell, 2004).
