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
Recommended Citation
Orzeck, R. (2012). Academic freedom, intellectual diversity, and the place of politics in geography. Antipode, 44(4), 1449-1469. https://doi.org/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.