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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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-767572024-04-01T23:19:29Z Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues Piper, Heather Leander, M.A. 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 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical 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 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. 2022-01-11T13:41:08Z 2022-01-11T13:41:08Z 2021 book ONIX_20220111_9783036508269_492 9783036508269 9783036508276 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76757 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4206 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/4206 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0827-6 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0827-6 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036508269 9783036508276 182 Basel, Switzerland open access
spellingShingle 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
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
title Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
title_full Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
title_fullStr Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
title_full_unstemmed Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
title_short Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
title_sort challenging academia a critical space for controversial social issues
topic 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
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
topic_facet 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
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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