Full Description
The notion of academic freedom dates back to the creation of universities and has long been understood to be central to their vocation. This freedom has come under attack by different actors throughout its history. In the current context, rising threats to democracy and human liberties, the corporatization of research, concerns about diversity and increased societal polarization, are putting a considerable pressure on its exercise. However, academic freedom is also a concept that suffers from persistent ambiguities associated with the general notion of freedom as well as debates about the function of universities.
This edited collection addresses the question of academic freedom by situating it in its broader global context. More conceptual treatments contribute to an understanding of academic freedom as distinct and separate from, although related to, freedom of expression, or student rights. These conceptual treatments are combined with studies of actual struggles over the scope of academic freedom in specific universities. The contributions come from a broad variety of sites seek to deprovincialize the conversation beyond North America or the English-speaking world.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Nandini Ramanujam and Frédéric Mégret
Part I: Imagining, Defending, Conceptualizing Academic Freedom
Academic Freedom as Freedom of Complex Association
Jacob Levy
Academic Freedom and University Autonomy: An Agenda for Professional Public Engagement
Sijbolt Noorda
The Political Cosmetology of Academic Freedom
Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens
How Structure, Culture, and the Individual Together Constrain and Enable Academic Freedom in China: A Historical Perspective
Zhidong Hao
Beyond the Periphery? Academic Freedom as a Matter of Human Rights
Sejal Parmar
Part II: Diversity and the Democratization of Academic Freedom
Nationalist Backlash to Anti-Racist Education: A Transnational Blueprint for Academic Unfreedom
Vincent Wong
Coloniality and Diversity of Academic Freedom: The African Context
Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua
Freedom for All: Academic Freedom in a Pluralistic Society
Tamara Thermitus
Academic Freedom and Social Justice in Quebec
Sophie Bisping
The Simultaneous, Crucial Pursuit of Academic Freedom and Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) through a Relational Approach
Angela Campbell
Part III: Between Authoritarianism and Populism: State Interference with Academic Freedom
The Crisis of Academic Freedom at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Europe in a Plural World
Liviu Matei
A tale of two stories: visible and less visible assaults on academic freedom in France
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchezz
Academic Freedoms in Modern Russia: "Dawn" and "Dusk" of the Higher School of Economics
Andrey Shcherbovich
Challenges of Academic Freedom in India: Considering the Human Rights Education Framework for Amplifying Marginalized Student Voices
Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal and Brigid Freeman
China's Transnational Impact on Academic Freedom: Spectrum, Impacts, and Response
Teng Biao and Catherine Malanga
Part IV: Emerging Threats and Challenges
Restricting Academic Freedom at Universities: How Corporations Contribute to the Problem
Hani Morgan
Academic Freedom and Dark Money Donors: The Cases of Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Florida
Isaac Kamola
Beyond Academic Freedom: Australian Universities and Post-Reform China
John Fitzgerald
Mining and Fossil-Fuel Entanglements with the University in an Era of Climate Change: Impacts for Academic Freedom and Climate (In)Action
Kristen Lyons
Academic Freedom in Online Learning
Katarzyna Kaczmarska and Corinne Lennox
Academic Freedom and University Rankings
Chris Brink
Academic Freedom: Swimming against the Technological Tide
Chavan Kissoon and Terence Karran
Contributors
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