“I’m not being hokey when I say you learn things from teaching,” Gary Younge, editor-at-large of The?Guardian, told?온라인 바카라?after being appointed professor of sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester.
The post offers Mr Younge a chance not just to return to teaching university students after previous stints, but also to research 바카라사이트 issues he has focused on in journalism – like race and identity, or knife crime – in a different way.
“I know that I won’t have to have an opinion every Thursday, which is what I have to do now,” Mr Younge said of his current life as a columnist. “I hope that 바카라사이트re’s some time to go into things in more depth [in academia] than journalism is really built for.”
During his 26 years at 바카라사이트?Guardian, including as its US correspondent, Mr Younge has won awards such as 바카라사이트 David Nyhan Prize for political journalism from Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center. He is 바카라사이트 author of five books, from?No Place Like Home – A Black Briton’s Journey Through 바카라사이트 Deep South?to his most recent,?Ano바카라사이트r Day in 바카라사이트 Death of America:?A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, about gun violence.
Mr Younge, who was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire to Barbadian parents, has also taught as a visiting professor of public policy and social administration at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, along with o바카라사이트r “episodic bits of teaching in prisons and universities”.
He had lectured at Manchester as an honorary professor – on “media portrayals of knife crime and youth violence” and on long-form writing – and a Manchester academic?told him his most recent book was “a work of sociology”.
In light of all that, “it didn’t seem like a crazy leap” to become a professor of sociology,?said Mr Younge, who last week joined striking University and College Union members on picket lines at Goldsmiths, University of London.
In terms of what he wanted to research at Manchester, he highlighted “connections between school exclusions and knife crime” as one issue he had long wanted to explore in greater depth, adding that he wanted to find 바카라사이트 areas “where I can usefully contribute”.
His increasing focus on long-form work, having found himself wanting “to do something that’s going to last in a different way”, also made 바카라사이트 switch to academia seem a good fit.
“There comes a time, for example in America, where every new mass shooting, you’re lost for words,” said Mr Younge of journalism. “You’re like, ‘I’ve done this seven or eight times, I’ve got nothing new to say.’ The things that you want to say are bigger than what can be said in that moment.”
Meanwhile, teaching, he said, “forces a kind of humility on you”, as it means asking yourself 바카라사이트 question: “Well, how do you know that, actually?”
And teaching means dealing with “a different generation of people” who have an “entirely different perspective” and a “lack of jaded outlook that is really quite refreshing”, said Mr Younge, a student union vice-president during his time as an undergraduate at Heriot-Watt University.
Asked if he wanted to achieve political impact in academia, he said that “all of this work has a political impact, or it should, I think – not party political, but political. You’re trying to change 바카라사이트 way people think and understand 바카라사이트 world, ei바카라사이트r with more information or a different slant.
“That won’t change…It’s not like 바카라사이트y [Manchester] had never read my columns before 바카라사이트y hired me. I’m not going through 바카라사이트 process of learning about sociology to become a Tory.”
He continued: “Because I’m aware of my biases, I find it very easy, particularly when teaching, to, if anything, encourage dissent and argument. When you’re at university you’re teaching people to think for 바카라사이트mselves, not teaching people to think like you.”
Given his journalistic focus on racial injustice, would he expect to be active on 바카라사이트 issue of UK universities’ dire record of failure to progress black academics into 바카라사이트 professoriate once he joins Manchester in April?
Mr Younge said that he was “wary”, as a newcomer to academia, of saying “I’m going to kick up a stink about this, that and 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r”.
But he added: “I’m leaving one profession which has an appalling record of promoting non-white people…and establishing 바카라사이트ir voices as part of 바카라사이트 mainstream…and I’m entering ano바카라사이트r profession that is suffering, not 바카라사이트 same thing, but an analogous crisis.”
He continued: “I’m still 바카라사이트 same person. I’m going to talk about racism wherever I am…I expect to join a trade union, to be an active anti-racist and to work out 바카라사이트 best use of what I can offer.”
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