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• W4378605222 abstract "Children, Youth and Environments Vol 13, No.2 (2003) ISSN 1546-2250 On Not Evacuating the Area: Politics and the Usefulness of Academic Work Sarah Holloway Loughborough University Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK Citation: Holloway, Sarah. “On Not Evacuating the Area: Politics and the Usefulness of Academic Work.” Children, Youth and Environments 13(2), 2003. Willem's request for thoughts on Lea's letter came out of the blue and I'm far from sure what type of commentary he expects to receive. This reply is crafted in response to the naked disillusionment I read in Lea's original correspondence. It is a personal answer to a personal letter. Lea's disappointment centered on the lack of “direct usefulness” of academic work, on the failure of academics to influence politicians. These are, I suppose, the kind of issues with which we all struggle. Soon after gaining full-time employment as an academic I was elected as a local councillor. As I finished writing up my Ph.D., I simultaneously applied for research funding to study children's use of the Internet, while also running a budget working party at Council which had to make cuts in services. The stark contrast between the money I raised to study Internet usage, and the cuts I was making at Council (for example in the window replacement budget, although new windows were sorely needed to address fuel poverty and increase security for those living in social housing) was something no one could miss . It inevitably led to some disillusionment and soul searching. Although tempted, I chose not to abandon academia in favor of a life as a full-time, career politician because I continue to think academia is politically important. While it is sometimes frustrating to be no more than a cog in the academic system, I am in the privileged position of being a cog in a system which 150 has power. Recognition of this informs my political commitment to teaching: I have the opportunity to challenge young minds and I take pleasure from the tangible outcomes this can produce. Although individual attempts to change policy through research practice may seem to bear little fruit compared with this, changes in thinking produced through our collective work can alter the landscapes in which decisions are made. This is often not the “direct usefulness”' which Lea seeks, nor is it a replacement for direct action politics or other traditional forms of political engagement. However, for all its fuzziness and frustration, shaping new ways of thinking about our changing world is an important complement to other forms of politics. The power which we seek to challenge is malleable and multi-stranded and so too must be our response. This letter will no doubt be read by some more radical readers as a defense of the indefensible, a liberal establishment which furthers the careers of those it employs while doing little to solve the injustices about which it talks. There are indeed faults with the current system. Not least in the UK is the way auditing of research through the Research Assessment Exercise privileges some forms of output over others, and works against those who want to remain politically engaged both inside and outside work. However, for all its faults, academia is important and it behooves those of us who undoubtedly benefit from the system to work towards its improvement. It is for this reason that I remain here and why I think it is important for other “critical” researchers not to evacuate the area. Sarah Holloway is a senior lecturer in human geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests focus on the twin themes of “Children, Youth and Families” and “Social Geographies of In/Exclusion.” She has published widely in the fields of feminist and children's geographies and is co-editor of Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning (Routledge, 2000) and co-author of Geographies of New Femininities (Longman 1999) and Cyberkids: Children in the Information Age (RoutledgeFalmer, 2003). ..." @default.
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