Doing Academic Careers Differently: Portraits of Academic Life (Doing Academia Differently)

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Entrance Hall and Cloakroom
I: The Meandering Gallery
	I Hope your Journey is a Long One: Meandering Careers
	Meandering Academics
	The All-Over-The-Place Academic: How to Fit in an Academic Niche But Also be Free to Pursue New and Exciting Research Ideas
	A Pebble Skipper’s Tale
	The General Academic
II: Against Careerism
	On Ducks and Vocations: Notes Against Careerism
	Careering Through My Career: How I Failed to Become a Business School Dean
	Ducks at the University? Two Connected Biographies in Seven Images
	Excellence and Disruption: A Mid-Career Dialogue
	Collectively Creating Conditions That Nurture: The Bushland as Metaphor for the Academic Ecosystem
III: Navigating Belonging
	Across Hostile Waters to Brave New Lands? Notes on Navigating Academic Belonging
	The Collective Academic: A Conversation Across Worlds
	Before You Decolonize, Let me into the Game: Virtue, A Key to Unbridling the Shackles of Oppression
	How to Become an Academic, and Alienate People: The Working-Class Academic
	The Back-Door Academic
	The Ingenuous Communitarian
	The Journey of a Surprised Academic
	The Self-Made Academic: From Business to a Business School
IV: Nurturing Careers
	Nurturing Careers: On the Importance of Care and Relationships
	The Permaculture Academic
	A Room for Three: Living Academic, Feminist Lives (or The Unfinished Reading of a Room of One’s Own)
	The Non-Conformist Academic: Professor, Parent, Provider
	The Mom Academic (Fragmentation)
V: The Hall of Mirrors
	Mirroring Academia: Reflections from a Hall of Mirrors
	Reflections, Distortions – The Mirrored Academic
	Academic Misfits
	Becoming a (Never) Good Enough Critical Scholar? On Precarious Academic Subjectification Processes
	The Art of Being a Reflexive Academic: Painting a Never-Complete Self-Portrait
	The Poetic Academic
	I am you, As you are me: Academic Lives as a Mirror of Ourselves
VI: The Transgressive Gallery
	In the Garden of Dreams: Transgressive Careers
	Seek & Destroy – From Transgression to Contestation. and Back
	Meeting the Threads that Pull: A Feminist Declaration of Consequence Towards Academia
	The Absurd Academic
	Crafting A Career in ‘Academic Journalism’
	Blinds and Bananas: Metaphor in the Margins
	A Clown’s Tale
VII: the Late Entrance
	The Late Entrance: Muddy Water and Dry Grass?
	Late Portrait Arrival
	Disturbing Bodies? Prospective and Retrospective Second-Careering within the Doctoral Candidature
	Better Late than Never: The ‘Up the Hill Backwards’ Academic
VIII: The Living Precariously Gallery
	Living Precariously and Overcoming the Odds
	The Happy and Smiling, But Inwardly Crumbling Gig Academic: Reflections on Early Career Precarity and Anxiety
	The “Sack-Race” Academic: A Post-Socialist Portrait of a Single Mother Facing Social Expectations and the Trade-Offs of an Academic Career Path
	Re-Imagining the Dialectic of Work and Motherhood in Academia
	Waiting for Godot: The Impaired Academic
	Some Counsel to Doctoral Students from a Naïve and Shell-Shocked Academic
	“Why Even Bother?” The Defiant Practice of the Independent Scholar
IX: The Haunted Gallery
	Haunting Careers: The Realm of Academic Ghosts
	Higher Education in India: The Academic Outsider and the Lived Experiences of a Reclusive Rebel
	Morals of the Demoralised: The Non-Collaborative Academic
	Doing Philosophy Differently: Learning to Fight Gender-Bias by Giving up on Stereotypical Academic Norms
	Being an Academic Ghostwriter: Be(Com)ing Me(thodology)
	Unwaged and Repurposed: Transitions from Accidental to Non-Institutionalised Academic
	The Redundant Academic: Am I Academic, or am I Still an Academic?
	Exit via the Gift Shop
Index