Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xv

Acknowledgement

pp xvi-xvi

Series Editors’ Preface

pp xvii-xxii

Introduction

pp 1-10

Section I - Publics

pp 11-12

I.0 - Provocation I: Class, Gender and Identity: Axes of Structure and Difference in Subaltern Counterpublics

pp 13-24

I.1 - Mad People’s History and Identity: A Mad Studies Critical Pedagogy Project

pp 25-36

I.2 - ‘Seeing Things Differently’: Gender Justice and Counter-Hegemony in Higher Education

pp 37-52

I.3 - Domestic Abuse Survivors: Public Sociology and the Risks of Speaking Out

pp 53-64

I.4 - A Public Sociology for Post-Industrial Fife

pp 65-78

I.5 - Public Sociology and the Invisibility of Class

pp 79-92

I.6 - Dialogue I: Subaltern Counterpublics

pp 93-108

Section II - Knowledges

pp 109-110

II.0 - Provocation II: ‘Really Useful’ Public Sociology Knowledge

pp 111-120

II.1 - Crossing the Quadrant: Policy Research and Public Sociology

pp 121-134

II.2 - Recreating Knowledge for Social Change: Convergences between Public Sociology, Feminist Theory and Praxis of Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Women’s Integration in Scotland

pp 135-152

II.3 - Young People, Alcohol, Dialogical Methods

pp 153-170

II.4 - Young Children and Participative Research Enquiry: A Case for Active Citizenship

pp 171-182

II.5 - English Last: Displaced Publics and Communicating Multilingually as Social Act and Art

pp 183-198

II.6 - The Construction of ‘Public Knowledge’ within Community Planning Partnerships: Reducing Structurally Embedded Inequalities at Local Level?

pp 199-216

II.7 - Dialogue II: ‘Really Useful’ Public Sociology Knowledge

pp 217-224

Section III - Practices

pp 225-226

III.0 - Provocation III: Public Sociology Practices, Privatising Universities

pp 227-238

III.1 - Precarity as an Existential Phenomenon within a Post-industrial Labour Market

pp 239-252

III.2 - Student– Public– Sociologist: On Dialogue with our First Public, and in Widening Access to Higher Education

pp 253-266

III.3 - Experts by Experience: Art, Identity and the Sociological Imagination

pp 267-286

III.4 - Community Engagement: Cultivating Critical Awareness

pp 287-298