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Whereas we focus on civic risk taking in Chap. 6, including research, teaching, and other activities that might occur off campus or in partnership with community groups, in this chapter, we consider civic action on the university campus itself. Specifically, we consider the geographic space of the university campus as a contested civic space. We examine different ways in which individuals living or working on a university campus might be alternatively empowered or manipulated, or some of both, depending on the political sensitivity of an issue. We outline four strategies potentially employed by university leadership to either allow for or mitigate against certain kinds of participation of professors, staff, and students in civic and political activities: (1) controlled participation, (2) tokenistic participation, (3) symbolic or fake participation, and (4) authentic participation.
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Bryer, T.A., Pliscoff, C., Wilt Connors, A. (2020). Universities as Contested Civic Spaces. In: Promoting Civic Health Through University-Community Partnerships. Rethinking University-Community Policy Connections. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19666-0_7
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