With contributions from six leading scientific countries of the Global North and from the general European Higher Education Area, this book questions the predominant view on academic freedom and pleads for a holistic approach.
While academic freedom has been a top agenda point for the global scientific community in recent years, the public and academic discourse has often been marked by a negative interpretation of the term understood merely as exemption from state intervention and censorship. The contributions in this edited volume demonstrate, however, that this is not where the story ends: the ability to exercise academic freedom not only involves the freedom of expression in its abstract sense but should involve the capability to determine research agendas and curricula independently from market pressures or threats of career sabotage, and to resist workplace misconduct without fear of losing future career chances.
Providing a differentiated picture of contemporary structural limits to academic freedom in advanced democracies, this volume will be of great interest for not only scholars of higher education, but for the entire academic community.
Author(s): Aslı Vatansever, Aysuda Kölemen
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 183
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1 The Neoliberal Restructuration of University
Chapter 1 The Chair: A Short History of Structural Unfreedom, Anti-Democracy, and Disenfranchisement in German Academia
Chapter 2 What Is Tenure?
Chapter 3 Disability Studies as a Subaltern Discipline
Part 2 The Academic Precariat between Coping and Resistance
Chapter 4 Living on the Edge: Continuous Precarity Undermines Academic Freedom but Not Researchers’ Identity in Neoliberal Academia
Chapter 5 Academic Freedoms of Fixed-Term Researchers in Italy: Aggravating Occupational Precarity
Chapter 6 Disappearing Freedoms: On Intersections of Career and Labor in Nordic Countries
Part 3 When Political and Economic Precarities Intersect: New Forms of Border Control and the State of Migrant/Exiled Academic Workers in Europe
Chapter 7 “Our University Is Exploiting Us”: Migrant Students in the UK, the Global Pandemic, and the Nexus between Marketized Higher Education and Border Controls
Chapter 8 Academics Stuck in Movement Amidst Precarity, Hypermobility, and Vulnerability
Index
