What if academia could be a space of care, collaboration, equity, inclusion, and collective empowerment?
How to Cultivate Academic Heterotopias explores the transformative potential of a feminist lens to redesign academia. This groundbreaking volume delves into the historical challenges faced by non-traditional academics in higher education while offering actionable solutions to create more inclusive academic cultures. From reimagining leadership and policies to redefining success in teaching, research, external engagement, and service, this book provides a visionary feminist blueprint for a Positive Academia Collective Transformation (PACT). Topics include the heterotopic landscape of academia, transcending leadership boundaries, teaching & learning, research, external engagement and professional service, reimagining academic cultures and envisioning the academy of tomorrow. With practical tools and reflective questions, this book empowers readers – whether students, educators, researchers, or administrators – to reimagine academia as a thriving, inclusive, and positive environment for all.
Published in Edward Elgar’s widely read How-to-Guides series, our volume challenges traditional epistemological production by focusing on value co-creation, ethical writing, imagination, sensibility, sensitivity, and inclusive referencing. This book reaches beyond the collection of prescriptive ideas when inviting everyone to contribute actively to constructing a radically different academic future. A future that dismantles neoliberal scholarship in favour of collective, collaborative and societally meaningful intellectual practices.
This volume is being co-created by a team of academics who share a commitment to transforming academia into a more inclusive, caring and equitable ecosystem.
- [Lead Editor] Dr Christa Sathish
- [1st Co-Editor] Prof Anne-Wil Harzing
- [2nd Co-Editor] Prof Ina Aust-Gronarz
For the full introductory announcement, please visit: https://christasathish.com/2025/03/positive-academia-forthcoming-edited-book-announcement-how-to-cultivate-academic-heterotopias/
We are currently launching this call for any chapter of your choice that fits with the overall theme and conceptual framework of our edited volume. We encourage co-authored chapters but also welcome single-authored work. By deciding to work with us, you are not simply contributing an assembled chapter but joining a friendly team of like-minded authors who believe in the flourishing of creativity, relationality and co-creation.
Submission requirements & process:
- Indicate your interest by emailing Christa Sathish at [email protected].
- You will then receive the introduction and further information regarding the timeline.
- We will then expect a short abstract 150-200 words (to Christa Sathish – [email protected]) deadline 24 of March
- Decisions by the 28 of March