In a decidedly anti-intellectual moment, exemplified bysuch recent phenomena as denials of science, defunding of universities, anddistrust of “facts,” Intra-PublicIntellectualism examines the relationships among qualitative inquiry, truthtelling and social activism.
With contributions from scholars and activists aroundthe world, the book addresses three key tensions in the field of socialinquiry. The first tension concerns the proliferation of digital environmentsand virtual spaces, exploring how the “public” in public intellectualism mightbe reconsidered. The second tension concerns the ongoing critiques of truth andsubjectivity, exploring how these disruptions change the work of theintellectual. The third tension concerns the growing scientific andphilosophical rejection of static material worlds, exploring what becomes ofsocial responsibility and justice when agency extends beyond human subjects.
Intra-Public Intellectualism will be a must read for those interested in the roles of the intellectual in the academy and beyond and those keen on rethinking critical social inquiry for the twenty-first century.
Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Qualitative Research | Critical Qualitative Inquiry and Critical Theory | Social Context and Education | Foundations of Education | Cultural Studies and Public Pedagogy | Curriculum Theory | Social Justice and Education | Advanced Qualitative Methodology | Interpretivist Inquiry | Posthumanist Inquiry | New Materialist Inquiry | Arts-Based Inquiry
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One Intellectual Publics | Public Intellectuals |
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Two An Ecology of Truth(s) Telling Amid the Post-Truth Turn |
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Three Guiding Public Engagement With Science Through a Branching Narrative of Qualitative Perspectives |
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Four Whiteness and the Natural Order: Shame, Race and Public Intellectualism According to Jordan Peterson |
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Five Is That a Ladybird on the Leaf? Public Intellectualism and Resistance With Very Young Children |
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Six Intellectual Undesirables: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Intellectual Contributions of the Neurologically Othered |
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Seven Intellectual Gatekeepers: Reclaiming Black Queer Youth as the Public |
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Eight The (Un)Common Intellectual: Possibilities for New Relational Bonds |
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Nine Soil Starying of Public Intellectualism: Ideas Mattering Through Care and Collectivity |
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Ten Enacting Anzalduan Spiritual Activism: Intersecting Personal and Collective Shadows in Public Intellectualism |
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Timothy C. Wells (M.A., Arizona State University) is a doctoral student in the Learning, Literacy, and Technology program at Arizona State University. His work resides in the fields of educational foundations and qualitative inquiry, bringing a critical interdisciplinary framework to the study of social and affective experience in schooling. He has published in Teachers College Press, Qualitative Inquiry, and Discourse: A Journal of Culture and Education.
David Lee Carlson is an associate professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He writes in the areas of Qualitative Inquiry, Queer Theory, and Curriculum Studies. His most recent articles appear in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, International Journal of Research in Qualitative Inquiry, and Qualitative Inquiry.
Mirka Koro(Ph.D., University of Helsinki) is a Professor of qualitative research at the Arizona State University. Her scholarship operates in the intersection of methodology, philosophy, and socio-cultural critique and her work aims to contribute to methodological knowledge, experimentation, and theoretical development across various traditions associated with qualitative research. She has published in various qualitative and educational journals and she is the author of Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research: Methodologies without Methodology (2016) and co-editor of Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric (2017).
