Intra-Public Intellectualism

“In this contemporary era of racialized and political reckoning and welcomed civil disobedience globally, the editors and contributors of this book offer unique insights that inspire new and radical ways to engage in intra-public intellectualism. Through contemplative and decolonizing imaginaries, dialogues, and interludes, each chapter disrupts boundaries and expands possibilities for re-envisioning the role of academics and critical qualitative research in theorizing and transforming public social spheres. This edited book is a must read for those seeking a compelling and diverse compilation of perspectives on public intellectualism.”

Michelle Salazar Pérez, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, The University of Texas at Austin

“In a world that too often seems beyond resuscitating, Intra-Public Intellectualism: Critical Qualitative Inquiry in the Academy is an injection of hope for critical qualitative inquirers committed to public causes, no matter how lost. While offering plenty of provocations, interventions, and lines of flight, in sync with the post-philosophies prominent throughout the book, each edited chapter is also a demonstration of how to (still) think and do responsive and responsible public critical qualitative work that matters. It is a positive reminder that the public is still worth fighting for and we critical qualitative researchers have and must soldier on.”

Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Associate Professor of Measurement and Research, University of South Florida

“This powerful and timely collection of essays answers the call for a critical inquiry that advances a long over-due public social science.”

Norman K. Denzin, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, Sociology, and the Humanities, University of Illinois

Acknowledgments

Map to the Interludes

Introduction

ONE
Intellectual Publics I Public Intellectuals
M. Francyne Huckaby and Jonathan W. Crocker

TWO
An Ecology of Truth(s) Telling Amid the Post-Truth Turn
Joseph D. Sweet and Taylor M. Kessner

THREE
Guiding Public Engagement With Science Through a Branching Narrative of Qualitative Perspectives
Mathew D. Evans

FOUR
Whiteness and the Natural Order: Shame, Race and Public Intellectualism According to Jordan Peterson
Lauren Mark and Timothy C. Wells

FIVE
Is That a Ladybird on the Leaf? Public Intellectualism and Resistance With Very Young Children
Marek Tesar

SIX
Intellectual Undesirables: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Intellectual Contributions of the Neurologically Othered
Joshua Cruz

SEVEN
Intellectual Gatekeepers: Reclaiming Black Queer Youth as the Public
Boni Wozolek

EIGHT
The (Un)Common Intellectual: Possibilities for New Relational Bonds
David Lee Carlson

NINE
Soil Storying of Public Intellectualism: Ideas Mattering Through Care and Collectivity
Nicole Bowers and Adam T. Clark

TEN
Enacting Anzalduan Spiritual Activism: Intersecting Personal and Collective Shadows in Public Intellectualism
Kakali Bhattacharya and Mildred Boveda

Contributors

Permissions

Index

Note: Table of Contents subject to change up until book is published.

Timothy C. Wells

Timothy C. Wells (M.A., Arizona State University) is a doctoral student in the Learning, Literacy, and Technology program at Arizona State University. His work resides in the fields of educational foundations and qualitative inquiry, bringing a critical interdisciplinary framework to the study of social and affective experience in schooling. Currently, his research considers the historical production of the acting out student and the social and political functions of qualitative inquiry. He has published in Teachers College Press,Qualitative Inquiry, and Discourse: A Journal of Culture and Education.

David Lee Carlson

David Lee Carlson is an associate professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. He writes in the areas of Qualitative Inquiry, Queer Theory, and Curriculum Studies. His most recent articles appear in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, International Journal of Research in Qualitative Inquiry, and Qualitative Inquiry.

Mirka Koro

Mirka Koro (Ph.D., University of Helsinki) is a Professor of qualitative research at the Arizona State University. Her scholarship operates in the intersection of methodology, philosophy, and socio-cultural critique and her work aims to contribute to methodological knowledge, experimentation, and theoretical development across various traditions associated with qualitative research. She has published in various qualitative and educational journals and she is the author of Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research: Methodologies without Methodology (2016) and co-editor of Disrupting Data in Qualitative Inquiry: Entanglements with the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric (2017).