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Power and Protest at an American University No Confidence, No Fear
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 concerning the circumstances in which faculty are likely to be motivated to protest, the institutional frameworks that make protest possible and the strategies that get results. As such, it will appeal to scholars of social movements with interests in protest and mobilization in the field of education.
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.
