Passion and Purpose in the Humanities: Exploring the Worlds of Early Career Researchers [Paperback]

Foreword? Introduction: Passion and Purpose in the Humanities: a story of emergence? 1. Spinning a web of regenerative leadership? Letter 1: Passion, Purpose and Patience? 2. The intention and reection of a passionate journey through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)? 3. Curating an Academic Life with Good Vibes and Gongs? Letter 2: A Holding Back, A Keeping Clear? 4. Laying Down a Path in Playing? Letter 3: Philosophy found me!? 5. Australian Critical Indigenous Studies? Letter 4: A short letter to ECRs on how to approach a career as a researcher in Archaeology??6. How I became an academic storyteller? Letter 5: The Invitation of Curiosity? 7. Lingering Images: Future-Historical Narratives and Creative Potency? Letter 6: Teaching is Space Exploration? 8. When enough is enough!  An autoethnography of a Black Migrant Woman's journey to academia? Letter 7: Love the Unknown? 9. Tributaries? Letter 8: Be Daring!? 10. Financialization of Higher Education in Brazil? 11. From tree to rhizome: The story of wandering roots? Letter 9: To Researchers at the End of One World??12. My Neohumanist Calling? 13. A Journey of Curiosity, Discovery and Creativity? Letter 10: To the luckiest people in the world. 14. Social Media Maven? Letter 11: Research as Co-Realization? 15. My Auto-ethnographical story: Academic life in an Australian masculine culture as a female migrant from a feminine culture? Letter 12: Finding your field? 16. Who knew that I, of all people, could be an academic, and even do well at it?? Letter 13: Working with Uncertainty??17. Cautionary tales for rising stars  It is a big constellation out there!? Letter 14: Information Moves in an Ecology? 18. Rising Ideas with Heart? 19. Disruption, art and sound research? Letter 15: Take a breath!? 20. Growing a Research Family (An Interview)??Afterword

This book takes readers on a journey into the experiences, struggles and triumphs of early carlÓÁ