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Becoming a footnote : an activist-scholar finds his voice, learns to write, and survives academia /
How does a graduate student acquire the skills necessary to define a clear research agenda and write meaningful contributions to the scholarship in his or her field? Can the requirements of professional advancement in the ivory tower be reconciled with making a difference in the bare-knuckle world o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in new political science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. How I Had Four Majors in College
- Chapter 2. Going Postal, Getting Drafted: How I Ended Up in Graduate School
- Chapter 3. How I Learned To Read
- Chapter 4. I Went Down to the Crossroads: Activism and Scholarship
- Chapter 5. Standing on Shoulders: Scholarship as Networking
- Chapter 6. Theory and Practice: Research and the Court
- Chapter 7. Is Anybody Listening? Testifying before Congress
- Chapter 8. Calling Out Racial Bias: Images, Words, and Numbers
- Chapter 9. The Deep Semiotic Structure of Deservingness: Enduring Identities in Dependency Discourse
- Chapter 10. Three Heads Are Better than One: Collaboration, Mixed Methods, and Disciplining the Poor
- Chapter 11. Moving On: Turning To Europe
- Chapter 12. Making It Matter: Real Social Science in the Neoliberal Academy
- Conclusion: A Postscript on Writing
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.