| Description |
1 online resource (459 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Entrance Hall and Cloakroom -- I: The Meandering Gallery -- I Hope your Journey is a Long One: Meandering Careers -- Meandering Academics -- The All-Over-The-Place Academic: How to Fit in an Academic Niche But Also be Free to Pursue New and Exciting Research Ideas -- A Pebble Skipper's Tale -- The General Academic -- II: Against Careerism -- On Ducks and Vocations: Notes Against Careerism |
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Careering Through My Career: How I Failed to Become a Business School Dean -- Ducks at the University? Two Connected Biographies in Seven Images -- Excellence and Disruption: A Mid-Career Dialogue -- Collectively Creating Conditions That Nurture: The Bushland as Metaphor for the Academic Ecosystem -- III: Navigating Belonging -- Across Hostile Waters to Brave New Lands? Notes on Navigating Academic Belonging -- The Collective Academic: A Conversation Across Worlds -- Before You Decolonize, Let me into the Game: Virtue, A Key to Unbridling the Shackles of Oppression |
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How to Become an Academic, and Alienate People: The Working-Class Academic -- The Back-Door Academic -- The Ingenuous Communitarian -- The Journey of a Surprised Academic -- The Self-Made Academic: From Business to a Business School -- IV: Nurturing Careers -- Nurturing Careers: On the Importance of Care and Relationships -- The Permaculture Academic -- A Room for Three: Living Academic, Feminist Lives (or The Unfinished Reading of a Room of One's Own) -- The Non-Conformist Academic: Professor, Parent, Provider -- The Mom Academic (Fragmentation) -- V: The Hall of Mirrors |
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Mirroring Academia: Reflections from a Hall of Mirrors -- Reflections, Distortions -- The Mirrored Academic -- Academic Misfits -- Becoming a (Never) Good Enough Critical Scholar? On Precarious Academic Subjectification Processes -- The Art of Being a Reflexive Academic: Painting a Never-Complete Self-Portrait -- The Poetic Academic -- I am you, As you are me: Academic Lives as a Mirror of Ourselves -- VI: The Transgressive Gallery -- In the Garden of Dreams: Transgressive Careers -- Seek & Destroy -- From Transgression to Contestation. and Back |
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Meeting the Threads that Pull: A Feminist Declaration of Consequence Towards Academia -- The Absurd Academic -- Crafting A Career in 'Academic Journalism' -- Blinds and Bananas: Metaphor in the Margins -- A Clown's Tale -- VII: the Late Entrance -- The Late Entrance: Muddy Water and Dry Grass? -- Late Portrait Arrival -- Disturbing Bodies? Prospective and Retrospective Second-Careering within the Doctoral Candidature -- Better Late than Never: The 'Up the Hill Backwards' Academic -- VIII: The Living Precariously Gallery -- Living Precariously and Overcoming the Odds |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Happy and Smiling, But Inwardly Crumbling Gig Academic: Reflections on Early Career Precarity and Anxiety |
| Subject |
College teachers.
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Career development.
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Career development
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College teachers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bristow, Alexandra
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Ratle, Olivier
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| ISBN |
9781000897104 |
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1000897109 |
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