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Towards scholar-activism: transversal relations, dissent, and creative acts

Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo, Jen Bagelman Orcid Logo

Citizenship Studies, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 329 - 346

Swansea University Author: Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo

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What does it mean to be a scholar-activist or to pursue scholar-activism in the neoliberal university? Acknowledging how this concept of a ‘scholar-activist’ is often approached either cynically or idealistically, we ask how we might engage this figure otherwise: as one characterised by in-betweenne...

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ISSN: 1362-1025 1469-3593
Published: Informa UK Limited 2023
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