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At colleges and universities throughout the United States, political protest and intellectual dissent are increasingly being met with repressive tactics by administrators, politicians, and the police-from the use of SWAT teams to disperse student protestors and the profiling of Muslim and Arab American students to the denial of tenure and dismissal of politically engaged faculty. The Imperial University brings together scholars, including some who have been targeted for their open criticism of American foreign policy and settler colonialism, to explore the policing of knowledge by explicitly linking the academy to the broader politics of militarism, racism, nationalism, and neoliberalism that define the contemporary imperial state.
The contributors to this book argue that "academic freedom" is not a sufficient response to the crisis of intellectual repression. Instead, they contend that battles fought over academic containment must be understood in light of the academy's relationship to U.S. expansionism and global capital. Based on multidisciplinary research, autobiographical accounts, and even performance scripts, this urgent analysis offers sobering insights into such varied manifestations of "the imperial university" as CIA recruitment at black and Latino colleges, the connections between universities and civilian and military prisons, and the gender and sexual politics of academic repression.
Contributors: Thomas Abowd, Tufts U; Victor Bascara, UCLA; Dana Collins, California State U, Fullerton; Nicholas De Genova; Ricardo Dominguez, UC San Diego; Sylvanna FalcÓn, UC Santa Cruz; Farah Godrej, UC Riverside; Roberto J. Gonzalez, San Jose State U; Alexis Pauline Gumbs; Sharmila Lodhia, Santa Clara U; Julia C. Oparah, Mills College; Vijay Prashad, Trinity College; Jasbir Puar, Rutgers U; Laura Pulido, U of Southern California; Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, California State U, Long Beach; Steven Salaita, Virginia Tech; Molly Talcott, California State U, Los Angeles.
Contents
Contents
Introduction. The Imperial University: Race, War, and the Nation-State
Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina MairaI. Imperial Cartographies1. New Empire, Same University? Education in the American Tropics after 1898Victor Bascara2. Militarizing Education: The Intelligence Community's Spy CampsRoberto J. GonzÁlez3. Challenging Complicity: The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial ComplexJulia C. OparahII. Academic Containment4. Neoliberalism, Militarization, and the Price of Dissent: Policing Protest at the University of CaliforniaFarah Godrej5. Faculty Governance at the University of Southern CaliforniaLaura Pulido6. The BDS Movement and Violations of Academic Freedom at Wayne State UniversityThomas Abowd7. Decolonizing Chicano Studies in the Shadows of the University's "Heteropatriracial" OrderAna Clarissa Rojas DurazoIII. Manifest Knowledges8. Normatizing State Power: Uncritical Ethical Praxis and ZionismSteven Salaita9. Nobody Mean More: Black Feminist Pedagogy and SolidarityAlexis Pauline Gumbs10. Teaching outside Liberal-Imperial Discourse: A Critical Dialogue about Antiracist FeminismsSylvanna FalcÓn, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott, and Dana Collins11. Citation and Censure: Pinkwashing and the Sexual Politics of Talking about IsraelJasbir PuarIV. Heresies and Freedoms12. Within and Against the Imperial University: Reflections on Crossing the LineNicholas De Genova13. Teaching by CandlelightVijay Prashad14. UCOP versus R. Dominguez -The FBI Interview: A One-Act Play Á la Jean GenetRicardo Dominguez
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