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Power and Protest at an American University: No Confidence, No Fear book cover

1st Edition

Power and Protest at an American University No Confidence, No Fear

Edited By Ellen Carnaghan, Kathryn E. Kuhn Copyright 2021
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines the successful no-confidence movement led by faculty at Saint Louis University in 2013 in an effort to unseat the university president, considering the reasons for success when similar movements often fail. Through a series of chapters written by faculty from many disciplines at the university, it uses a particular episode of faculty protest to shed light on wider issues... Read more

1. Introduction: Power and Protest at an American University

Ellen Carnaghan

Part 1: Power

2. The Rise and Decline of a University

David E. Rapach and Bonnie Wilson

3. Postscript to a Deanship

Annette E. Clark

4. Unmasking Administrative Evil in Academia

Robert A. Cropf and Kathryn E. Kuhn

Part 2: Protest

5. The Power of the Powerless Faculty Member

Ellen Carnaghan

6. Contested Frames and the Role of the Media in the No-Confidence Movement

Kathryn E. Kuhn and Mark Edward Ruff

7. Almost Empty Places: Jesuit Mission and Identity as Rhetorical Topoi

Paul Lynch

8. (K)No(wing) Confidence: A Feminist Epistemological Consideration of Suspicion, Credibility, and Reflexivity in Progressive Movements for Political Change

Wynne Walker Moskop and Penny Weiss

9. Contentious Faculty: Theory and Practice

Ellen Carnaghan

Coda: The Idea of a University

Silvana R. Siddali

Biography

Ellen Carnaghan is Professor of Political Science at Saint Louis University, USA, and the author of Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World.

Kathryn E. Kuhn is Associate Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University, USA.

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