Enforcing silence : academic freedom, Palestine and the criticism of Israel /: academic freedom, Palestine and the criticism of Israel. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• 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 -- 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
• 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.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 22, 2020).
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