"Academic Freedom, Intellectual Diversity, and the Place of Politics in" by Reecia Orzeck
 

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

Publication Title

Antipode

Keywords

academic freedom, intellectual diversity, higher education, pedagogy, disciplines, inter-disciplinarity

Abstract

This paper examines the conservative critique of higher education in the USA. I argue, first, that the right's call for greater “intellectual diversity” in American higher education should be understood as an attack on the professional self-regulation and disciplinary autonomy that are central to academic freedom in this country. Second, I suggest that the right's politicization of politics in the academy brings to light the importance of our developing a vision of the university that accounts for rather than disavows the political nature of the work we do.

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00965.x

Comments

This is the accepted manuscript of an article first published in Antipode 44(4) September 2012: 1449-1469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00965.x.

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