Scholar/Activists and Regimes of Truth

Rethinking the Divide between Universities and the Streets

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ID18990264
AuthorsN Glick Schiller (0000-0002-7834-1927, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume19
Issue2
Pages162-164
Publication date2011-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransforming Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1051-0559 • E-ISSN: 1548-7466
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01123.x
OpenAlexW1974246199
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Challenging the divide between political activism in the streets and in the University that is frequently made by US academics, this commentary links insights about regimes of truth to the concept of scholar/activism. Three different forms of scholar activism are delineated: (1) direct political engagement; (2) acting as a public intellectual; and (3) creating a critical scholarship that directly challenges the dominant theoretical frameworks, solipsisms, mystifications, and silences that underlie neoliberal regimes of truth. The article notes that opposition to methodological nationalism is key to a scholar/activism relevant to world-wide struggles against oppression. It highlights an emerging subaltern cosmopolitanism that draws on experiential histories of oppression to bring together simultaneous cultural rootedness and openness to common aspirations for social and economic justice. [regimes of truth, scholar activism, methodological nationalism, subaltern cosmopolitanism, Antionio Lauria]

Cosmopolitanism · Nationalism · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Subaltern · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law

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