Call for Contributions:
Public Scholarship and
Private Commitment
Why do you care about your research? What is it that makes you want to
spend your time exploring this area of the social world? What does it
mean for you to gain understanding of these aspects of social life?
Our answers to these questions often encompass the biographical,
ethical and political. However these aspects of our involvements are
often relegated to the background, as the factors seen as relevant to
scholarship are too frequently construed in narrowly intellectualising
ways.
The Social Imagination is intended as a space in which private
commitments can be reconciled with public scholarship. Therefore we
are soliciting contributions which explain how the two are linked and thus
address the aforementioned questions.
This could entail an explanation of your research, an intellectual
biography, a political polemic or something else entirely.
Contributions should be between 500 and 1000 words.
www.sociologicalimagination.org
m.a.carrigan@warwick.ac.uk