New article now published: The Politics of Appropriation: Freedom, Censorship and the Reordering of Scientific Knowledge
We are pleased to share that the article “The Politics of Appropriation: Freedom, Censorship and the Reordering of Scientific Knowledge” by Katja Brøgger, Jo-Anne Dillabough, and Andrea Petö has now been published.
“What does it mean to understand academic freedom not only as a protected right or institutional guarantee, but as a relational political practice – a ‘practice of freedom’ that is always conditional, provisional and contingent, won and lost through struggle in the wider public realm rather than secured by institutional design alone?”
The article opens with this question and challenges many of the normative assumptions that currently shape debates on academic freedom, particularly in relation to its perceived global decline. By examining how academic freedom is strategically reinterpreted and mobilized in contemporary political struggles, the authors offer a timely perspective on the changing relationship between knowledge, power, and democracy.
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