Full Description
This book draws on interdisciplinary social science and philosophical frameworks to offer new dimensions to debate about intellectual leadership and higher education. The chapters are focused on provoking readers to think critically about intellectual leadership in precarious times. The contributors frame critical questions about the unevenness, ambivalences, and disruptions that now mark everyday life and interactions. Rather than thinking about 'freedom from precarious times and precarity' they consider 'freedom from within' and how the sovereignty and autonomy of the individual to think and speak within the public realm might be retained, if not reclaimed. In the precarious present and in times of precarity, what has changed and why? What might now be the new social reality within which we work?
Each of the contributors have been invited to take up their own perspective on what is precarious, and to examine the impacts on intellectual leadership. What does it mean to do intellectual work and be an intellectual leader? What are the implications for intellectual work and leadership if the academy itself is in precarious times?
Contents
1. Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education, and Precarious Times, Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia, Australia), Helen M Gunter (University of Manchester, UK) and Jon Nixon (Middlesex University, UK)
2. When Intellectual Leadership Dies: Critical Voice vs. Self-Censorship in Precarious Universities, Anatoly Oleksiyenko (Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
3. Governance of the Marketized University in Precarious Times, Steven Jones (University of Manchester, UK)
4. The Geopolitics of International Higher Education, Transnational Intellectual Collaboration and Leadership, Ly Thi Tran, Jill Blackmore, and Diep Thi Bich Nguyen (Deakin University, Australia)
5. On the Abolition of Intellectual Leadership, Richard Hall (De Montfort University, UK)
6. Glass Cliff and Other Factors Facilitating Women's Leadership in Irish Higher Education, Pat O'Connor (University College Dublin, Ireland)
7. Thinking Plurality: Academic Leadership, Precarious Institutions and Collegial Bodies as Member States in an Epistemic Union, Sharon Rider (Uppsala University, Sweden)
8. Enabling Intellectual Leadership in Precarious Times: The Contribution of the Professional Doctorate, Elizabeth Parr (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Janet Lord (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Stephen M Rayner (University of Manchester, UK) and Rachel Stenhouse (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
9. Crises and the Emergence of 'Estates' within Australian Universities, James Waghorne (University of Melbourne, Australia)
10. The Need for Critical Intellectual Leadership in US Community Colleges during Precarious Times, David L. Levinson (Connecticut State Community College, USA) and Kathleen R. Rowell (Sinclair Community College in Dayton, USA)
11. Thinking Critically about Intellectual Leadership in Precarious Times, Tanya Fitzgerald (University of Western Australia, Australia), Helen M Gunter (University of Manchester, UK) and Jon Nixon (Middlesex University, UK)
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