Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significa...
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Piper, Heather edt Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues Challenging Academia Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021 1 electronic resource (182 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles. English Humanities bicssc Social interaction bicssc Early Childhood Education and Care child sexual abuse prevention policies no touch teacher–child relationships male childcare workers stigma discrimination fear panopticon moral panic Brazilian academia interviewing for faculty positions Lattes CV meritocracy criminalisation harm law criminal justice freedom risk abuse liberal victim vulnerability critical thinking identity politics academic freedom free speech victimhood anti-discriminatory practice neoliberalism shadow management new public management ombudsman rule of law transparency higher education body journal Coronavirus corporal identity narratives pandemic parenthood clan academic taboo Sweden state postcolonialism research methods disparity disaggregating data Asian Americans disability mental health model minority myth free inquiry censorship conformity moral panics witch hunts heresy gender mainstreaming Lehrfreiheit university autonomy UNESCO 3-0365-0826-0 3-0365-0827-9 Leander, M.A. edt Piper, Heather oth Leander, M.A. oth |
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