Full Description
In a decidedly anti-intellectual moment, exemplified by such recent phenomena as denials of science, defunding of universities, and distrust of "facts," Intra-Public Intellectualism examines the relationships among qualitative inquiry, truth telling and social activism.
With contributions from scholars and activists around the world, the book addresses three key tensions in the field of social inquiry. The first tension concerns the proliferation of digital environments and virtual spaces, exploring how the "public" in public intellectualism might be reconsidered. The second tension concerns the ongoing critiques of truth and subjectivity, exploring how these disruptions change the work of the intellectual. The third tension concerns the growing scientific and philosophical rejection of static material worlds, exploring what becomes of social 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Map to the Interludes
Introduction
ONE. Intellectual Publics I Public Intellectuals
M. Francyne Huckaby and Jonathan W. Crocker
TWO. An Ecology of Truth(s) Telling Amid the Post-Truth Turn
Joseph D. Sweet and Taylor M. Kessner
THREE. Guiding Public Engagement With Science Through a Branching Narrative of Qualitative Perspectives
Mathew D. Evans
FOUR. Whiteness and the Natural Order: Shame, Race and Public Intellectualism According to Jordan Peterson
Lauren Mark and Timothy C. Wells
FIVE. Is That a Ladybird on the Leaf? Public Intellectualism and Resistance With Very Young Children
Marek Tesar
SIX. Intellectual Undesirables: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Intellectual Contributions of the Neurologically Othered
Joshua Cruz
SEVEN. Intellectual Gatekeepers: Reclaiming Black Queer Youth as the Public
Boni Wozolek
EIGHT. The (Un)Common Intellectual: Possibilities for New Relational Bonds
David Lee Carlson
NINE. Soil Storying of Public Intellectualism: Ideas Mattering Through Care and Collectivity
Nicole Bowers and Adam T. Clark
TEN. Enacting Anzalduan Spiritual Activism: Intersecting Personal and Collective Shadows in Public Intellectualism
Kakali Bhattacharya and Mildred Boveda
Contributors
Permissions
Index
Note:Table of Contents subject to change up until book is published.
