Being in Shadow and Light : Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belluigi, Dina Zoe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence.

Academic freedom.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2025.

Summary:

Academia and its citizens, during periods of political violence and social conflict, are often overlooked. When attention is given, the focus tends to be on student activism, access to higher education, or curriculum development. The experiences of academics affected by conflict remain under-researched, despite the crucial role they play as educators and in generating, documenting, preserving and challenging knowledges. This is particularly concerning given that academics have-and continue to be-at risk as targets of sanction, persecution and oppression. This edited volume seeks to address this gap by exploring, and evoking, the complexities of academic subjectivity, place and practice in contexts where intellectual and state authority are contested or in transition. It features contributions by academics, artists and memory activists who have stepped bravely outside of the parameters of their disciplines, with modes of enquiry and representation that include conversations, vignettes and case studies, critical ethnographies, oral life histories, interviews, poetry and collage. Within the ten chapters are consideration of conflicts within Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, England, Mexico, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Palestine, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria and Venezuela. Being in Shadow and Light encourages a deeper understanding of academics' navigation of these difficult conditions. The authors' insider-outsider positioning brings forth the richness of ways through dilemmas-of omission, trauma, displacement, inheritance, injustice, distortion, desire. Grounding the many social, cultural, economic, and epistemic politics within academia, troubles the enclosure of 'conflict' in politics at the grand level, as if only within the realm of interest for state and international actors. Against sanitising the uncertainties and particularities of being an academic figure, the authors reflect on the states and sites of conflict as spaces which shape living. This work is a call to recognize, document and study the often-overlooked subjectivities and contributions of academics thinking and practicing within societies undergoing conflict(s) and in their aftermath. As such, it will be of interest to academics, students and staff working within universities, as well audiences interested in intellectuals and institutions in contexts undergoing change.

Contents:

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About the Editor and Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Takyiwaa Manuh

Introduction: Evoking What It Is to Be in Shadow and Light

Dina Zoe Belluigi

PART I

PAST CONFLICTS AND THEIR LEGACIES

1. Truth and Reparations: A Conversation on the Participation of the Higher Education Sector in the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-repetition

Natalia Maya Llano, Juan Camilo Domínguez, Juan Sebastián Flórez Herrera, Catalina Puerta Henao and Adriana Rudling

2. The Whiteboard: Reflections on a Personal Archive of Apartheid-era Items from the Security Police of a University Town

Brent Arthur Meistre

3. Academics of Post-war Sri Lanka: Traces of Experiences and Impact.

Hemalatha Pradeepkumar

4. Being a Woman and a Researcher between Exile and Social Reconfiguration: An Interview with Hebe Vessuri

Guillermo López Franco, Nissa Yaing Torres-Soto, Alejandra Aray-Roa and Paulette Joseph

5. Hidden Legacies of the Troubles: Post-conflict Pedagogy as Resistance in Northern Irish Medical Education

Jenny Johnston, Mairead Corrigan and Helen Reid

PART II

CONFLICTS IN THE PRESENT

6. 'A Virtual Target Painted on my Back…': Contested Constitutionalism in a Post-conflict Society

Colin Harvey

7. (Her)story between Shadow and Light: A Displaced Syrian Woman Academic

Rida Anis

8. Home and Abroad: Exploring my Lived Experiences through Poetry and Narrative

Fadel Jobran-Alsawayfa

9. The Lone Voice in the Academic Wilderness: Nigerian Academics' Experiences in Industrial Conflicts

Gregory O. Ugbo and Henry Chigozie Duru

10. The Conflict of the Faculties, Again

Richard Hudson-Miles

List of Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80511-405-0

1-80511-406-9

OCLC:

1507843043