Reimagining Academic Activism

"Weatherall’s interrogation of the complex meanings and contemporary manifestations of social activism is both theoretically sophisticated and conceptually rich - and brimming with a fire-in-the-belly passion for justice." Kate Seymour, Flinders University

"This has been an integral part of my PhD thesis in navigating the complexities of research relating to social justice. It perfectly articulates the experience of those who find themselves neither ‘academic’ nor ‘activist’ in an emergent research space” Will Hunter, PhD Management, University of Bristol

Ruth Weatherall is Lecturer in Not-for-Profit and Social Enterprise Management at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research uses feminist and queer perspectives and it is concerned with how social justice, particularly related to gender inequality, is achieved in and through not-for-profit organizations.

Part 1: The Academic/Activist

1. Setting Out

2. Unsettling the In/Out

Part 2: Ties That Bind; Ties That Break

3. Outside of Ourselves

4. Passionate, Sad, Angry People

Part 3: Vulnerable Bodies

5. Gendered Bodies

6. LGBT+ Bodies

7. Radically Unsettled Bodies

Part 4: A Story Like Mine

8. An Account of Ourselves

9. Through Diff erence

Conclusion: Our Words Must Spill