Handbook on Academic Freedom

Author:   Richard Watermeyer ,  Rille Raaper ,  Mark Olssen
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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9781788975902


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Identifying academic freedom as a major casualty of rapid and extensive reforms to the governance and practices of academic institutions worldwide, this timely Handbook considers the meaning of academic freedom, the threats it faces, and its relation to rights of critical expression, public accountability and the democratic health of open societies. An international cohort of leading scholars discuss the historical conceptualisations of academic freedom and explore the extent of its reconfiguration by neoliberalism and economic globalisation. Chapters examine the threats posed to academic freedom by interventionist government, economic fundamentalism, political conservatism and extremism. The Handbook finds that these threats endanger the intellectual ambitions at the core of academic freedom: contesting established ‘truth’ and holding power to account. Examining a matter of urgent social and political importance which is crucial to the future of democracy and intellectual autonomy, this Handbook is an invigorating read for students and scholars researching academic freedom, free speech and democratic governance in higher education institutions.

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Author:   Richard Watermeyer ,  Rille Raaper ,  Mark Olssen
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781788975902


ISBN 10:   1788975901
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction to the Handbook on Academic Freedom 1 Richard Watermeyer PART I HISTORIES AND CONCEPTUALISATIONS 1 Academic freedom in the modern British university: a historical perspective 18 Mike Finn 2 Publicness and intellectual work: rethinking academic freedom in the age of impact 37 Mark Murphy 3 Academic freedom as radical freedom 52 Christian Krijnen 4 A symbiotic relationship between academic freedom and liberal democracy: the case of higher education in Turkey 70 Ayla Goel PART II NEOLIBERALISM/MANAGERIALISM 5 Knowledge, meaning and work: threats to academic freedom in the world of research 90 Eva Aladro Vico 6 Institutional autonomy, managerialism and the conditions for academic freedom in Swedish higher education 105 Goran Puaca 7 Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and democracy: the incursions of neoliberalism 125 Mark Olssen 8 Reframing the freedom to teach 146 Bruce Macfarlane PART III CHALLENGING UNEQUAL STRUCTURES 9 A nation reimagined: the suppression of academic freedom in Turkey 160 Tahir Abbas and Anja Zalta 10 Whiteness masquerading as academic freedom 177 Georgina Tuari Stewart 11 Eurocentrism, racism and academic freedom in South Africa 190 Savo Heleta PART IV PERSONAL/POLITICAL REFLECTIONS 12 Toxic times for feminist academic freedom? 206 Carol A. Taylor, Susanne Gannon, Kathryn Scantlebury and Jayne Osgood 13 Academic freedom as experience, relation and capability: a view from Hong Kong 225 Liz Jackson 14 Academic freedom begins at home 242 Nesta Devine PART V STUDENTS' ACADEMIC FREEDOM 15 Student freedom in contemporary universities: England and Italy compared 252 Lorenzo Cini 16 Academic freedom, students and the decolonial turn in South Africa 269 Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh and Thierry M. Luescher 17 Freedom, fragmentation and student politics: tracing the effects of consumerism in English students' unions 288 Rille Raaper PART VI NEW CONFIGURATIONS 18 The end of academic freedom: two displacements and new ends for it 305 Ronald Barnett 19 Academic freedom and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 319 Cary Nelson 20 Academic freedom and extramural expression in the US 336 Henry Reichman PART VII A CALL TO ARMS 21 Campaigning for academic freedom 356 Dennis Hayes Index

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'For three decades academic faculty have struggled within a neo liberal performance economy to maintain control over their work and ground it socially amid corporate universities focused on their own status as an end in itself. Now the spread of authoritarian states, the turn to more conflictual geopolitics and the new securitisation of science and technology pose more treacherous challenges. Much depends on whether academic freedom in its different variations across the world can ride out the storm. The book is an indispensable guide to this fundamental and vital issue.' -- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK


'The Handbook on Academic Freedom paints an extremely disturbing picture of how, globally, academics' ability to act as critical public intellectuals has been radically undermined by universities' shift from a collegial to a managerial mode of governance. However, this is not simply a critique of the myriad ways in which academics' performance is now constantly audited and monitored in a way that limits their freedom to perform their proper function, but also a much-needed call to arms.' -- Julian Petley, Brunel University London, UK 'For three decades academic faculty have struggled within a neo liberal performance economy to maintain control over their work and ground it socially amid corporate universities focused on their own status as an end in itself. Now the spread of authoritarian states, the turn to more conflictual geopolitics and the new securitisation of science and technology pose more treacherous challenges. Much depends on whether academic freedom in its different variations across the world can ride out the storm. The book is an indispensable guide to this fundamental and vital issue.' -- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK


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Edited by Richard Watermeyer, School of Education, University of Bristol, Rille Raaper, School of Education, University of Durham and Mark Olssen, Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK

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