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Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies

Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies

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AnthropologyGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Education

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ISBN10: 1932643028
ISBN13: 9781932643022
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 20 2012
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions. Often adopting narrative approaches, the contributors examine how effective programs and activities are built in varying local and national contexts within a common global regime of university management policy. Here they share experiences based on developing new undergraduate degrees, setting up research centers and postgraduate schools, editing field-shaping book series and journals, establishing international artist-in-residence programs, and founding social activist networks.

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