Enforcing silence : academic freedom, Palestine and the criticism of Israel /: academic freedom, Palestine and the criticism of Israel. ([2020])
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- Book
- Title:
- Enforcing silence : academic freedom, Palestine and the criticism of Israel /: academic freedom, Palestine and the criticism of Israel. ([2020])
- Main Title:
- Enforcing silence : academic freedom, Palestine and the criticism of Israel
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by David Landy, Ronit Lentin and Conor McCarthy.
- Editors:
- Landy, David
Lenṭin, Ronit
McCarthy, Conor - Contents:
- 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 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 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 --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 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 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 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 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 … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Zed Books
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Copyright Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 347 pages)
- Subjects:
- 378.1213
Academic freedom -- Israel
Arab-Israeli conflict
Freedom of speech
Human rights
Freedom of information & freedom of speech
Academic freedom
Arab-Israeli conflict
Freedom of speech
Human rights
Israel
Electronic books
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781786996527
1786996529
9781786996534
1786996537
9781786996541
1786996545 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781786996503
9781786996510 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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