The Lives of Working Class Academics

Getting Ideas Above your Station

Iona Burnell Reilly, Iona Burnell Reilly

• Editore: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781801170598
• Argomento: Bildung
• Categoria: Hochschulausbildung

Traditionally academia has been seen as an elite profession, for those with an academic background and from the middle/upper classes. This is what makes the life of a working class academic all the more interesting, rich and powerful. How have they become who they are in an industry steeped in elitism? How have they navigated their way, and what has the journey been like? Do they continue to identify as working class or has their social positioning and/or identities shifted?

Iona Burnell Reilly presents a collection of autoethnographies, written by working class academics in higher education – how they got there, what their journeys were like, what their experiences were, if they faced any struggles, conflicts, prejudice and discrimination, and if they had to, or still do, negotiate their identities. Told in their own words the academics chart their journeys and explore their experiences of becoming an academic while also coming from a working class background.

Although a working class heritage under-pins the autoethnography of each of the writers, the interlocking sections between class, race, gender and sexuality will also be relevant.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Endorsement
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Navigating the Relational Character of Social Class for Capitalism in the Academy
• Chapter 2 Mr Airport Man and the Albatross: A Reverie of Flight, Hope and Transformation
• Chapter 3 Power, Corruption and Lies: Fighting the Class War to Widen Participation in Higher Education
• Chapter 4 ‘Friends First, Colleagues Second’: A Collaborative Autoethnographic Approach to Exploring Working-Class Women’s Experiences of the Neoliberal Academy
• Chapter 5 Coming to Terms With the Academic Self: Place, Pedagogy and Teacher Education
• Chapter 6 The Rubik’s Cube of Identity
• Chapter 7 Uptown Top Ranking: From a Council Estate to the Academy
• Chapter 8 One’s Place and the Right to Belong
• Chapter 9 Who Do You Think You Are? The Influence of Working-Class Experience on an Educator in a Process of Becoming
• Chapter 10 John Constable Was My First Art Teacher: Construction of Desire in a Working-Class Artist/Academic
• Chapter 11 Class Is a Verb: Lived Encounters of a Minority Ethnic Academic Who Self-Identifies With Aspects of Working-Class Cultures in the United Kingdom
• Chapter 12 Reading the Posh Newspapers
• Chapter 13 Thames Estuary Academic
• Chapter 14 Concluding Chapter: Tackling ‘the Taboo’: The Personal Is Political (and It’s Scholarly Too)
• Afterword
• Enriching Universities and Scholarship by Prohibiting Class Discrimination
• Index