Enforcing Silence - Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel

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, shows us how we can and must defend our universities as places for critical thinking and free expression.>

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• Authors: David Landy, David Lentin Landy, Ronit Lentin, Conor McCarthy
• Assisted by: David Landy (Editor), Landy David (Editor), Ronit Lentin (Editor), Ronit (Independent scholar Lentin (Editor), Lentin Ronit (Editor), Conor McCarthy (Editor), McCarthy Conor (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781786996503
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-650-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 216 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Philosophy & theory of education, Colonialism and imperialism, Palestine, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher education, tertiary education, Political control and freedoms, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech, National liberation and independence, For higher / tertiary / university education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Political activism / Political engagement, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents