Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and Vulnerability - 9789819969005

Academic Citizenship, Identity, Knowledge, and VulnerabilityAuthor(s): Nuraan Davids\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore\nImprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore\nISBN-13: 9789819969005, 978-9819969005\nSynopsis\nThis bookbrings into contestationthe 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 [url] 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.\n\nThe book is influenced by a postcolonial vantage point, intere.