Overview
- Interrogates the intersections between identity, knowledge, citizenship, and vulnerability
- Deconstructs ethnocentric assumptions in western knowledge and academic citizenship
- Draws upon the ethnographic stories of academics, located at institutions in a variety of geopolitical contexts
Part of the book series: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives (DHEP, volume 11)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identity, Citizenship, and Vulnerability
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Academic Citizenship, Knowledge, and Curiosity
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Identity and Citizenship as Transformation
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Keywords
- Academic Citizenship
- Academics and Vulnerability
- Intersections of Identity and Vulnerability
- Academic Citizenship as an Agonistic Space
- Knowledge and Curiosity
- Unlearning to Relearn
- Academic Citizenship and Knowledge Production
- Academic Citizenship as Transformation
- Stories as Reclamations Of Knowledge
About this book
This book brings into contestation the idea of academic citizenship as a homogenous and inclusive space. It delves into who academics are and how they come to embody their academic citizenship, if at all. Even when academics hold similar professional standings, their citizenship and implied notions of participation, inclusion, recognition, and belonging are largely pre-determined by their personal identity markers, rather than what they do professionally. As such, it is hard to ignore not only the contested and vulnerable terrain of academic citizenship, but the necessity of unpacking the agonistic space of the university which both sustains and benefits from these contestations and vulnerabilities.
The book is influenced by a postcolonial vantage point, interested in unblocking and opening spaces, thoughts, and voices not only of reimagined embodiments and expressions of academic citizenship but of hitherto silenced and discounted forms of knowledge and being. It draws on academics' stories at various universities located in South Africa, USA, UK, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. It steps into the unexplored constructions of how knowledge is used in the deployment of valuing some forms of academic citizenship, while devaluing others. The book argues that different kinds of knowledge are necessary for both the building and questioning of theory: the more expansive our immersion into knowledge, the greater the capacities and opportunities for unlearning and relearning.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability
Authors: Nuraan Davids
Series Title: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6901-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6900-5Published: 10 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6903-6Due: 10 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-6901-2Published: 09 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2366-2573
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2581
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 177
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Philosophy of Education