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The Para-Academic Handbook

A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting


320 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2014


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Table of Contents

Foreword: We Are All Para-Academics Now Gary Rolfe

Para-academia: Reclaiming What Has Been Devastated Deborah Withers & Alex Wardrop

A Procrastination Alex Wardrop

Notes on the Prefix Alexander M. Kokoli

Spaces of Possibility: Pedagogy and Politics in a Changing Institution Lena Wånggren & Maja Milatovic

Interview with Joyce Canaan Joyce Canaan & Deborah Withers

A Pedagogics of Unlearning Éamonn Dunne & Michael O’Rourke

Emboldened and Unterrified: In/ Outside and – In Spite Of – The Neoliberal Academy Christian Garland

A Lesson from Warwick The Provisional University

Beyond the Defence of the Public University: Building a New Schole Kelvin Mason & Mark Purcell

Decentring Knowledge Production – Reflections on Learning Spaces In and Alongside Academic Institutions Laura Sterry

Edge, Empowerment and Sustainability: Para-Academic Practice as Applied Permaculture Design Tom Henfrey

Higher Degree (Un) Consciousness: A Frierean Approach to Post-Graduate Study Emma Durden, Eliza Govender and Sertanya Reddy

Crowdfunding of Academic Books: A Case Study Oliver Leistert & Theo Röhle

Para-Academic Publishing As Public-Making Paul Boshears

An Activist-Academic’s Reflections on Para-Academia Louise Livesey

No More Stitch Ups! Media, Research Justice and Fat Activist Community Knowledge Charlotte Cooper

Simultaneous Life and Death in Every Moment Georgina Huntley

On the Academy’s Point of Exteriority/ DUST Manifesto Fintan Neylan

The Pros and Cons of Para-Academia: A Personal UK Perspective Tony Keen

Reflections of an Incidental Maverick Paul Hurley

Otherwise Engaged B.J. Epstein

Marginal Inquiries; Precarity, Parergons and Situated Knowledges Margaret Mayhew

Epicurean Rain Eileen Joy

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