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Doing Academia Differently eBook Series

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  • Doing Academic Careers Differently

    Portraits of Academic Life

    Edited by Sarah Robinson, Alexandra Bristow, Olivier Ratle ...
    Series series Doing Academia Differently
    Should academic careers always unfold in exactly the same way? Is there one best way of being an academic? This book says no. Assumptions about who academics are and what they should do are becoming increasingly narrow and focused on achieving so-called ‘excellence’ in teaching and research above anything else. This book problematises this and explores the scope for doing academic careers ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Dark Academia

    How Universities Die

    by Peter Fleming ...
    'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - GuardianThere is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Work

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Fineman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us, it becomes part of our identity. For others it is a tedious necessity. Living is problematic without paid work, and for many it is catastrophic. ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Shut Down the Business School

    What's Wrong with Management Education

    by Martin Parker ...
    Business schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. In this lively and incendiary call to action, Martin Parker offers a simple message: shut down the business school.Parker argues that business schools are 'cash cows' for the contemporary university that have ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organizing & Organizations

    by Stephen Fineman, Yiannis Gabriel, David B P Sims ...
    Organizing and Organizations is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Fineman, Gabriel and Sims, eminent academics in the field, cover a wealth of key concepts, research and literature leaving students informed and engaged.The Fourth Edition builds on the ... Read more

    $130.39 CAD

  • Management in a Liquid Modern World

    by Zygmunt Bauman, Irena Bauman, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz, Monika Kostera ...
    Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, but there are few areas in modern societies that have been ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Arts for Change

    Teaching Outside the Frame

    by Beverly Naidus ...
    Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for Change overturns conventional arts pedagogy with an activist's passion for creating art that matters.How can ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Anthropology in Business

    Edited by Rita M Denny, Patricia L Sunderland ...
    In recent years announcements of the birth of business anthropology have ricocheted around the globe. The first major reference work on this field, the Handbook of Anthropology in Business is a creative production of more than 60 international scholar-practitioners working in universities and corporate settings from high tech to health care. Offering broad coverage of theory and practice around ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking

    Edited by Cara Courage, Tom Borrup, Maria Rosario Jackson, Kylie Legge, Anita Mckeown, Louise Platt, Jason Schupbach ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of ‘placemaking’ in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the placemaking sector.Placemaking has seen a paradigmatic ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The ABC of the projectariat

    Living and working in a precarious art world

    by Kuba Szreder, Poppy Bowers ...
    Series series Whitworth Manuals
    The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking on and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide. In an accessible ABC format, the book strikes a unique balance between the practical and the ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook on Consumption

    Edited by Margit Keller, Bente Halkier, Terhi-Anna Wilska, Monica Truninger ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Mobile Lives

    by Anthony Elliott, John Urry ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles?In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD