Academic Citizenship Identity Knowledge and Vulnerability

<p>This book brings into contestation the idea of academic citizenship as a homogenous and inclusive space. It delves into who academics are and how they come to embody their academic citizenship if at all. Even when academics hold similar professional standings their citizenship and implied notions of participation inclusion recognition and belonging are largely pre-determined by their personal identity markers rather than what they do professionally. As such it is hard to ignore not only the contested and vulnerable terrain of academic citizenship but the necessity of unpacking the agonistic space of the university which both sustains and benefits from these contestations and vulnerabilities.</p><p>The book is influenced by a postcolonial vantage point interested in unblocking and opening spaces thoughts and voices not only of reimagined embodiments and expressions of academic citizenship but of hitherto silenced and discounted forms of knowledge and being. It draws on academics' stories at various universities located in South Africa USA UK Hong Kong and the Philippines. It steps into the unexplored constructions of how knowledge is used in the deployment of valuing some forms of academic citizenship while devaluing others. The book argues that different kinds of knowledge are necessary for both the building and questioning of theory: the more expansive our immersion into knowledge the greater the capacities and opportunities for unlearning and relearning. </p>