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Higher Education and Working-Class Academics: Precarity and Diversity in Academia

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    Abstract

    This book examines how a working-class habitus interacts with the elite culture of academia in higher education. Drawing on extensive qualitative data and informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the author presents new ways of examining impostor syndrome, alienation and microaggressions: all common to the working-class experience of academia. The book demonstrates that the term ‘working-class academic’ is not homogenous, and instead illuminates the entanglements of class and academia. Through an examination of such intersections as ethnicity, gender, dis/ability, and place, the author demonstrates the complexity of class and academia in the UK and asks how we can move forward so working-class academics can support both each other and students from all backgrounds.
    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan Publishing
    Number of pages147
    ISBN (Electronic)9783030583521
    ISBN (Print)9783030583514
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 Dec 2020

    Publication series

    NamePalgrave Pivot Series
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

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