ISBN:
9781350219922
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 347 pages)
Edition:
Also published in print
Year of publication:
2021
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
378.1213
Keywords:
Academic freedom
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
;
Freedom of speech
;
Human rights
;
Freedom of information & freedom of speech
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Palestine and academic freedom -- Academic freedom, dissent, and the Israel/Palestine question -- Interdicting critics of Israel -- Conclusion -- PART I: Universities and academic governance -- ONE: Whose university? Academic freedom, neoliberalism, and the rise of 'Israel Studies' -- Introduction -- Neoliberal universities, the Zionist movement, and the roots of Israel Studies.
Abstract:
Brand Israel and the uses of Israel Studies: 'delegitimization' and re-legitimization -- Supply and demand: donor influence and entrepreneurial academics -- Performing objectivity, creating academic 'facts on the ground' -- Elite organization, state power, and academic freedom -- TWO: Disciplinarity and the boycott -- THREE: The academic field must be defended: excluding criticism of Israel from campuses -- Academic field -- The conference -- Defending free speech and defending balance -- Surveillance and invective -- Conclusion.
Abstract:
FOUR: Lebanese and American law at American universities in Beirut: a case of legal liminality in neoliberal times -- Introduction -- The legal predicament at AUB -- Academic boycott at AUB? -- Activists' dilemma: the neoliberalization of AUB -- A note on LAU and other American universities in Lebanon -- Conclusion -- FIVE: Precarious work in higher education, academic freedom, and the academic boycott of Israel in Ireland -- Introduction -- What is precarious work? -- Higher education and precarity in Ireland.
Abstract:
Higher education institutions, permanent/tenured-track academics, and the BDS movement -- Precarious work, contractual and financial insecurity, and self-censorship in academia -- Precarious work and relationships of dependency -- The transient nature of precarious work and collegiality -- Concluding comments -- PART II: Colonial erasure in higher education -- SIX: Colonial apologism and the politics of academic freedom -- Introduction -- Colonial apologism -- Colonial victimhood -- Academic freedom's contingency.
Abstract:
SEVEN: The academic boycott and beyond: towards an epistemological strategy of liberation and decolonization -- Introduction -- Hierarchies in the academy -- Scholarship with a political agenda -- Conclusion -- EIGHT: Colonial academic control in Palestine and Israel: blueprint for repression? -- Introduction -- Academic complicity in the colonization of Palestine -- Resisting academic control: PACBI and Academia for Equality -- Conclusion: blueprint for global control of academic freedom? -- PART III: Interrogating academic freedom.
Abstract:
Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of different national contexts. It looks at how the increased neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current climate, and considers how academics and their universities should respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend our universities as places for critical thinking and free expression
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also published in print.
,
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350219922
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