Global South Scholars in the Western Academy

<p>By foregrounding the voices and experiences of scholars from the Global South who have migrated to institutions in the Global North this volume theorizes the third space as a unique rich and generative position in the Western academy.</p><p>Global South Scholars in the Western Academy engages a range of critical methodologies to explore the challenges that Global South scholars have faced in establishing themselves in academic settings in the Global North. The text identifies the unique position that scholars have come to adopt in-between North and South and theorizes this positionality as a third space which is carved out by academics negotiating personal professional and cultural belonging. This liminal subject position enriched by experiences of migration racialization poverty and difference is shown to drive knowledge-production and justice-orientated approaches in the academy.</p><p>This book provides a new and overdue perspective on the experiences and contributions of Global South scholars in the academy. It will be of interest to academics researchers and scholars with an interest in critical theory indigenous and multicultural education the sociology of education and higher education. </p>