[ecrea] new publication: The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for making-learning-creating-acting

The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for 
making-learning-creating-acting to be published by HammerOn Press 15 
September 2014



£18 printed copy
Open Access Download

Grassroots publishing label HammerOn Press announces the release of a 
groundbreaking collection exploring the margins of contemporary 
academia. This book collects global perspectives of people who feel 
connected, in different ways, to the practice of para-academia. These 
people work alongside, beside, next to, and rub up against the proper 
location of the Academy, making the work of higher education a little 
more irregular and perverse.

The philosopher Isabelle Stengers, co-author of Women Who Make a Fuss: 
The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf, writes that the book “is a 
relevant and important political gesture” claiming a space and a name 
for “those who refuse to be crushed .., they are alive, not just 
surviving, and are part of the fragile creation of a collective future 
worth living”.

Ruth Barcan, author of Academic Life and Labour in the New University: 
Hope and Other Choices, writes that this is an “important new book ... 
simultaneously a critique, a lament and a re-envisaging. It is a 
compelling portrait of the new topographies of higher education and a 
testament to the power, inventiveness and resilience of those who work 
within, across and beyond its new spaces”.

Gary Rolfe, author of The University in Dissent, calls the volume “a 
hugely important book for anyone who feels (as I often do) alienated or 
marginalised by corporate academic life ... As such, it should be read 
not only by those who already work in the margins, but by all academics, 
students, researchers and administrators from across the academy who 
wish to find out what they are missing.”

It will be published as Open Access download from 15 September 2014, 
print copies available for £18 from the HammerOn site and all good 
bookshops.

To mark book publication we are holding two events: Saturday 11 October, 
3-5pm at Hydra Books, Bristol and Saturday 6 December at Housmans 
Bookshop, King’s Cross, London (exact time to be confirmed). Both events 
are an opportunity to extend conversations from the book and to share 
experiences, knowledge and ideas.

Please email (mail /at/ hammeronpress.net) for further information or to order 
a copy.


Twitter: @HammerOnpress

Press release link: tiny.cc/a4kylx




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