Leading an Academic Staff Union as a Middle-Level Academic (2003–2013)
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Date
2020
Authors
Wafula, Richard Makhanu
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JSTOR
Abstract
This article examines the emergence of the author as a leader of the
Universities Academic Staff Union at a university in East Africa. Using the
role, resource and constraint-based theories as well as autoethnography, which
is a sub-category of qualitative research, the author traces the intellectual and
political ferment that enabled him to become a unionist. From the discussion
that emanated from the data he collected, from memos, newspaper articles
and personal memories, it became increasingly clear that as a unionist his story
demonstrates tensions, contestations and in some cases expensive trade-offs.
Overall, there were actions that he performed well and others that he would
implement differently were he given a second chance to lead the union
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Keywords
autoethnography, Universities Academic Staff Union, protest literature
Citation
Wafula, R. M. (2020). Leading an Academic Staff Union as a Middle-level Academic (2003–2013). Journal of Higher Education in Africa/Revue de l'enseignement supérieur en Afrique, 18(2), 147-166.