The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

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ID4437590
AuthorsZeynep Gambetti (corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume121
Issue1
Pages178-187
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-9561629
OpenAlexW4206971223
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited10

This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within the broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts as true, without introducing new criteria in their place. As such, it is a state of constant disorientation. The main argument is that post-truth has a material power basis: it is neither an intellectual problem nor one that can be solved by recourse to liberal rights. By briefly showing how neoliberalism, the New Right, and biopolitical governmentality connect and reinforce each other, the essay then asks what academic freedom can signify given the new game of power. The Boğaziçi resistance, it argues, shows how defending academic freedom cannot solely be an academic matter

Academic freedom · Argument (complex analysis) · Autonomy · Epistemology · Governmentality · Higher education · Law and economics · Liberalism · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Digital Education and Society · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy

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