Anti Racist Scholar Activism

This book focuses on anti-racist scholar-activism in the margins of universities in the United Kingdom. The book raises questions about the future of Higher Education in the UK, and shines a spotlight on those academics who are working within, and often against, their institutions. ‘Expect to be provoked on this rollercoaster of a read.' Liz Fekete, Director, Institute of Race Relations‘Share it with your best-loved comrades and take heart.’ Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival‘Who among us has not faced situations described in the book' Margo Okazawa-Rey, Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University'A necessary and compelling book.'Aziz Choudry, editor of The University and Social Justice, Activists and the Surveillance StateAnti-racist scholar-activism raises urgent questions about the role of contemporary universities and the academics that work within them. As profound socio-racial crises collide with mass anti-racist mobilisations, this book focuses on the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice. Amidst a searing critique of the university’s neoliberal and imperial character, Joseph-Salisbury and Connelly situate the university as a contested space, full of contradictions and tensions. This book is a call to arms for academics who are, or want to be, committed to social justice. Anti-racist scholar-activism raises urgent questions about the role of contemporary universities and the academics that work within them. As profound socio-racial crises collide with mass anti-racist mobilisations, this book focuses on the praxes of academics working within, and against, their institutions in pursuit of anti-racist social justice. Amidst a searing critique of the university’s neoliberal and imperial character, Joseph-Salisbury and Connelly situate the university as a contested space, full of contradictions and tensions. Drawing upon original empirical data, the book considers how anti-racist scholar-activists navigate barriers and backlash in order to leverage the opportunities and resources of the university in service to communities of resistance. Showing praxes of anti-racist scholar-activism to be complex, diverse, and multi-faceted, and paying particular attention to how scholar-activists grapple with their own complicities in the harms perpetrated and perpetuated by Higher Education institutions, this book is a call to arms for academics who are, or want to be, committed to social justice.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Pages: 280, Paperback, Manchester University Press