Writing and Unrecognized Academic Labor acknowledges that much of the work we do to sustain the academy remains without recognition. It demonstrates that it is not only published work that influences development and innovation in scholarship. The book rethinks the "publish or perish" system to show that good, unrecognized work is a vital part of scaffolding the growth of the academy and individual academic careers. It takes openness and transparency as a blueprint to outline plans for not only producing but also reimagining key markers of academic life, such as dissertations without anxieties of influence, conferences without directors, journals without gatekeepers, large-sample peer review, and teaching and learning beyond the university discourse. A sustainable community model of academic life should have belonged to each of us from the start. Author James Salvo shows us that "nothing will be lost when everything is given away. Thus, we ought to share fearlessly." This book is suitable for all graduate students and researchers in qualitative inquiry and across disciplines who seek a new model for the value of their work.
Let me be plain. All are given the opportunity to be obedient to God. They must either choose to step out in faith or choose to make their own plans and beg Him to bless them anyway. There is some peril involved in stepping out in faith. You will be hunted by the most vile, desperate creatures in existence. Even now you are being followed more intently and attacks are being plotted as you consider your choice." Before her meeting with a mysterious stranger, Mina Bennett thought her life was normal. Her biggest problems were things like making it to campus on time and navigating the troublesome line between best friend and boyfriend with her classmate Peter. When eerie things start happening, her life gets much more complicated after she is visited by an angel who tells her that an invisible but very real war is happening all around her. The scariest part is... her very soul is at stake. We all have a choice to make, but what if that choice changed the course of your whole life? Would you choose to live a sheltered existence or would you choose to fight in a war you never even knew existed? Mina is faced with such a choice, and she will never be the same again. In this battle of spiritual warfare, she must learn literally to put on the whole armor of God and fight demons. Her trials culminate in facing a larger-than-life threat, but with a little help, she comes to realize that the victory is already won. Believe will take you on a fast-paced journey that will question where you stand spiritually. At the end, like Mina, you will be faced with a choice. What will your decision be?
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Reading Autoethnography situates autoethnographic insights within the context of two fundamental concerns of critical qualitative inquiry: justice and love. Through philosophical engagement, it gives close readings of written passages taken from leading autoethnographers and frames the philosophical project of autoethnography as one that is both political and interpersonal. It does this to highlight how autoethnographic lessons can allow us to think through how we may achieve a flourishing for all — something that is both related to justice as it pertains to the political, and when situations are in excess of justice, related to love as it pertains to feeling at home in the world with others. As such, this book will be of interest to those who have a burgeoning interest in autoethnography and seasoned autoethnographers alike; anyone interested in critical qualitative inquiry as a discourse promoting justice and love; and any scholar who has encountered the ethical question of: "What ought we do?
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