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Being an Academic
The role of academics in universities worldwide has undergone unprecedented change over the past decade. In this book Fanghannel explores concepts of what it means to be an ‘academic’ in the 21st century.
Anthropologica
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Career Opportunities in Conservation and the Environment
Provides information on the duties, salaries, employment prospects, and skills, training, or education necessary for more than sixty-five jobs that focus on nature and the environment.
The Internationalization of the Academy
This volume provides a nuanced empirical assessment of the extent to which the academic profession is internationalized at the beginning of the 21st century. It indicates which are the most internationalized academic activities, and focuses on specific topics such as physical mobility for study or professional purposes, teaching abroad or in another language, research collaboration with foreign colleagues, and publication and dissemination outside one’s native country or in another language. It places the main theme in the wider context of the history of higher education’s internationalization. It provides explanations on what drives and deters academics from international activity, and ...
Ashes from Last Hell
A high profile official attached to North Korean UN office, Han determines his defection to South Korea, his late fathers deathbed wish. He informs Rha, the South Korean intelligent agent, that he would bring with him his countrys top WMD information. In return, he requests that his son and his mother would come together, but not his wife. Rha and his agency consider the bargain worthy and critical for the national security. Thus the triple breakout operation is conceived. His mother, a Pyongyang resident, has to be brought to the coastal city for her sea-route evacuation. His son, a student at Almaty, Kazakhstan, has to be led through perilous Central Asian plain chased by the local police. And Han has to be plucked out from his apartment that is locked out for security. The triple breakout is to take place in three different continents simultaneously and in seamless coordination
Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
This volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decolonise the discourse around academic mobility by highlighting experiences of precarity, resilience, care and solidarity in the academic margins. The authors use precarity to analyse the state of affairs in the academy, from hiring practices to ‘culturally’ accepted division of labour, systematic forms of discrimination, racialisation, and gendered hierarchies, etc. Building on precarity as a critical concept for challenging social exclusion or forming political collectives, the authors move a...
The Corporatization and Environmental Sustainability of Australian Universities
Analysing the juxtaposition of two trends in universities – corporatisation and environmental sustainability – this book explores how they are more contradictory than compatible. Hans A Baer argues that this contradiction is unavoidable because of the capitalist parameters in which they operate, including a commitment to on-going economic growth which contributes to social inequality, environmental degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Drawing on archival sources and Baer’s experiences in university sustainability forums, the book exposes how what universities claim to do in relation to environmental sustainability compares with their research, educational, operational and institutional activities. Presenting a critique of and a radical alternative to the status quo, this book is suitable for academics and students of anthropology, environmental studies and higher education.
Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration
As the law and politics of migration become increasingly intertwined, this thought-provoking Research Handbook addresses the challenge of analysing their growing relationship. Discussing the evolving theoretical approaches to migration, it explores the growing attention given to the legal frameworks for migration and the expansion of regulation, as migration moves to the centre of the political global agenda. The Research Handbook demonstrates that the overlap between law and politics puts the rule of law at risk in matters of migration.
Planning your Academic Publishing Journey
This book provides a ready reference for academics that covers the breadth of academic publishing. It draws on academic books and journal articles that have touched on various aspects of academic publishing, and on the author’s own extensive experiences, knowledge and lessons. This book explores the processes and decisions related to publishing academic literature such as journal articles, books, and other related formats. This book explores the foundations of an academic publishing career, discusses how to lay those foundations, and how to plan an academic publishing journey. It explores choosing a publisher and publication outlet, authorship, co-authoring, sharing data, dealing with short and lengthy publications, the hidden workload of publishing, and establishing and maintaining an author platform.
The Sustainability Tales
Drawing from the plot of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this innovative work imagines a conference about sustainability education to which ten academics from diverse disciplines and nations are attending. All are well known in their own fields, albeit recognised as something other than popular or mainstream. In their own institutions and discourses they all promote a message that higher education is losing its way and needs to change if it is to contribute to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals though its teaching. A mysterious benefactor has paid for much of their costs, dictated the conference style (conversational rather than presentational) and selected a host to facilitat...
