Handbook on academic freedom / edited by Richard Watermeyer, Rille Raaper, Mark Olssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raaper, Rille, editor.

Olssen, Mark, editor.

Watermeyer, Richard, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic freedom. .

Physical Description:

1 online resource (406 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction to the Handbook on Academic Freedom

PART I HISTORIES AND CONCEPTUALISATIONS

1. Academic freedom in the modern British university: a historical perspective

2. Publicness and intellectual work: rethinking academic freedom in the age of impact

3. Academic freedom as radical freedom

4. A symbiotic relationship between academic freedom and liberal democracy: the case of higher education in Turkey

PART II NEOLIBERALISM/MANAGERIALISM

5. Knowledge, meaning and work: threats to academic freedom in the world of research

6. Institutional autonomy, managerialism and the conditions for academic freedom in Swedish higher education

7. Academic freedom, institutional autonomy and democracy: the incursions of neoliberalism

8. Reframing the freedom to teach

PART III CHALLENGING UNEQUAL STRUCTURES

9. A nation reimagined: the suppression of academic freedom in Turkey

10. Whiteness masquerading as academic freedom

11. Eurocentrism, racism and academic freedom in South Africa

PART IV PERSONAL/POLITICAL REFLECTIONS

12. Toxic times for feminist academic freedom?

13. Academic freedom as experience, relation and capability: a view from Hong Kong

14. Academic freedom begins at home

PART V STUDENTS' ACADEMIC FREEDOM

15. Student freedom in contemporary universities: England and Italy compared

16. Academic freedom, students and the decolonial turn in South Africa

17. Freedom, fragmentation and student politics: tracing the effects of consumerism in English students' unions

PART VI NEW CONFIGURATIONS

18. The end of academic freedom: two displacements and new ends for it

19. Academic freedom and the Israeli‒Palestinian conflict

20. Academic freedom and extramural expression in the US

PART VII A CALL TO ARMS.

21. Campaigning for academic freedom

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Watermeyer, Richard Handbook on Academic Freedom

ISBN:

1-78897-591-X