From public sociology to collective knowledge production
The chapter traces the terrain of doing public sociology in contemporary Singapore. I reflect on three key issues shaping the work of doing public sociology in this context: labor and its division; the effects of a dominant U.S. Sociology; and the legitimacy of academic expertise. I argue that th...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147653 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | The chapter traces the terrain of doing public sociology in contemporary Singapore. I
reflect on three key issues shaping the work of doing public sociology in this context: labor and
its division; the effects of a dominant U.S. Sociology; and the legitimacy of academic expertise. I
argue that the work of public sociology requires sociologists to position ourselves in a larger
ecology of knowledge-producers—we have to find and create communities and bring others in
the academy along; we have to stretch across generational divides; we have to do collective
knowledge-production not only at the point of knowledge-dissemination but also at the point of
conceptualization and production. In a world where our expertise is suspect, we have to build
our own communities of legitimacy-granters, create legibility for our work outside the usual
anointers of legitimacy. The labor of doing public sociology is collective labor, entailing time to
create knowledge and solidarity, involving bodies in and out of the academy. |
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