The Entrepreneurial University Engaging Publics, Intersecting Impacts

by Taylor, Yvette

• ISBN13: 9781137275868
• ISBN10: 1137275863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-05-27
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The entrepreneurial university - and indeed the entrepreneurial researcher - has been tasked with making an impact. This international collection raises questions about who becomes the proper academic subject, fitting-in and getting ahead, and what falls off the agenda. In a time when the measure of educational impact risks being curtailed, shaped and measured through specific and pre-determined economies of value and use, this collections dwells on different (non)academic landscapes and the bodies, values and subjects that inhabit and disrupt them. It presents professional-personal reflections on research experience as well as interpretative accounts of navigating fieldwork and broader publics, politics and practices of (dis)engagement primarily through a feminist, queer and gender studies lens. Such concerns are practically related to the (in)accessibility of research practices, audiences, users and communities in and even beyond varied International fieldwork sites. It offers an interdisciplinary consideration of 'public sociology', the ethics of engagement, counter-publics and episodic politics, and issues of ownership and responsibility, agency and constraint.

Author Biography

Yvette Taylor is Professor in Social and Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University, UK. Her books include Fitting Into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012); Lesbian and Gay Parenting: Securing Social and Educational Capitals (2009) and Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders (2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction: 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. Collecting and Retelling Lesbian Lives: Stories and Memories from Soviet Russia; 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. Jocey Quinn, University of Plymouth, Kim Allen, Manchester Metropolitan University, Sumi Hollingworth, Weeks Centre, LSBU, and Uvanney Maylor, Jayne Osgood and Anthea Rose, IPSE, London Metropolitan University

12. Dialogue or Duel?: A Critical Reflection on the (Gendered) Politics of Engaging and Impacting;

13. Mixing Race: A Public Affair?; Chamion Caballero

14. 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 Tobias