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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This is a hugely important book for anyone who feels (as I often
do) alienated or marginalised by corporate academic life. It not
only gives a voice to a growing constituency of para-academics; it
also articulates a series of alternative visions for the future of
the university, driven not from the centre but from the margins,
the borderlands, the places where the interesting stuff happens. As
such, it should be read not only by those who already work in the
margins, but by all academics, students, researchers and
administrators from across the academy who wish to find out what
they are missing.
*Gary Rolfe, author of The University in Dissent*
Academia is dying, and in the process compulsively crushes the
desires for learning, creating, teaching, cooperating it claimed to
foster. It is a relevant and important political gesture to
invent a name, para-academics, for those who refuse to be
crushed, who do not sadly dream about a return to the past, when
the 'worthy ones' were identified and separated from the
flock, but inhabit interstices, inside, outside and
in-between, activists and bridge-builders where separation
prevailed. It is claiming they are alive, not just surviving, and
are part of the fragile creation of a collective future
worth living.
*Isabelle Stengers, author of Cosmopolitics and co-author of Women
Who Make a Fuss: The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf*
This important new book is simultaneously a critique, a lament and
a re-envisaging. It is a compelling portrait of the new
topographies of higher education and a testament to the power,
inventiveness and resilience of those who work within, across and
beyond its new spaces.
*Ruth Barcan, author of Academic Life and Labour: Hope and Other
Choices*
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