Engaged Academics as Activist Professionals: Privilege and Humility in Addressing Knowledge Divides
ISBN: 978-1-78769-406-4, eISBN: 978-1-78769-405-7
Publication date: 7 October 2019
Abstract
The cross-pressures and tensions for engaged academics are like those of other activist professionals and advantaged allies. Academic knowledge is more useful when it is put into dialog with the knowledge and experiences of others and academics use their skills to bring new information into community discussions, to provoke discussions, and to carry knowledge between groups. Academics should listen as well as talk, recognize and respect the differences among community members, and actively attend to and seek to amplify the voices of those who are most oppressed and marginalized.
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Citation
Oliver, P. (2019), "Engaged Academics as Activist Professionals: Privilege and Humility in Addressing Knowledge Divides", Bringing Down Divides (Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 43), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 213-232. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20190000043015
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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