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Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics that want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need and should be changed to allow for more equitable experiences.
List of contents
Section 1: Playing a different flute 1. Singing Lessons for the Lecturer 2. Dancing Through Shadows: A Journey from Academia to Career Coaching 3. Always coming home. A conversation with Sisyphus
Section 2: Living by other standards 4. Like the Ugly Duckling. Lived Experiences of 'Misfitting' in the Classroom 5. God is a lobster: Of muteness and a lost sense of professional value in becoming an academic 6. Making an academic career without a reference
Section 3: Adhering to a heart 7. Here's to the misfits: Academic misfitting and collegiality as resistance and subversion 8. Haunting dissonance: The inner conflict of a business school misfit 9. Misfitting together
Section 4: Cherishing a whole life 10. Odd body out: the female pregnant body in the male intellectual domain 11. Academia, ready for the future or stuck in the past? - How the academic system promotes a patriarchist family picture 12. Forced to find a different fit: Cruel optimism, the academic precariat and third space hybrid identities
Section 5: Being an academic misfit is not so bad
About the author
Magnus Hoppe is an associate professor in business administration at Mälardalen University in Sweden.
Steffi Siegert is an assistant professor in business administration at Linnaeus University in Sweden.
Serdar Temiz is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering at Uppsala University.
Anton Hasselgren is a senior data analyst at Star Stable Entertainment.
Fatemeh Seifan is analytics team lead at Paradox Interactive.
Summary
Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics that want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need and should be changed to allow for more equitable experiences.
