The steps taken by academic associations, and a #HigherEd institute to hold State officials to account abt treatment of migrant academic citizens, within the frame of a Constitution, is extraordinary: knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...

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SAR’s #Free2Think2025 report is here! As violent threats to #highered in authoritarian contexts persist, recent years have seen increases in attacks on historically liberal contexts—incl. in the #UnitedStates. Read the report’s pressing findings now: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

Free to Think 2025 | Scholars at Risk

Free to Think 2025 is the eleventh installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 395 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

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Free to Think - the annual report on Scholars at Risk - has been published today for 2024-5. See www.scholarsatrisk.org/free-to-thin... @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social #HigherEducation #CriticalUniversityStuides #AcademicFreedom

Free to Think | Scholars at Risk

Free to Think is an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. The reports explore concerning trends in attacks on higher education communities around the world with the ...

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Scholars at Risk is now active on Bluesky! SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals working to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Keep an eye out for our upcoming #Free2Think2025 report, documenting global attacks on #highered! Learn more: scholarsatrisk.org

🆓 Free chapter for a limited-time: Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force by Dina Zoe Belluigi: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

'Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force' Pre-print finally accessible: pure.qub.ac.uk/files/612944...

Niv & Vanshika Gupta produced this anthology of stories, reinterpreted from the oral life histories of socially marginalised, critical academics in the Indian academy. 📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University

Honoured to be in this book with many incredible Indian feminist scholars, and in a section looking at the university in particular, amoungst: Anagha Tambe Swati Dyahadroy Grace Ese-Osa Idahosa Nandita Banerjee Dhawan Shirley Anne Tate www.routledge.com/Gendered-Bod...

Appreciated the opportunity to contribute to this significant new edited collection. Thank you to Prof Dina Belluigi for support, encouragement and the chance to share reflections on the experience of working on post-Brexit constitutional change here. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Tough important questions & comments following my invited talk today, as part of the Wits University's commemoration of the #Fallist movements' calls, incl #decolonisation of the university 🙏 to Siphiwe Dube of the Wits Dept of Politics (pict) for introducing me & raising questions abt backlash

Important projects looking at resistance in universities in the past; from which to learn. Out yesterday: 'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz... #SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance

Being in Shadow and Light Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education @dzbelluigi.bsky.social www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education

Academia and its citizens, during periods of political violence and social conflict, are often overlooked. When attention is given, the focus tends to be on student activism, access to higher educatio...

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A celebration of the national and international research collaborations which have evolved from the School of #WomensStudies of Jadavpur University. Looking so forward to getting a copy of this book!

For an insight into the complicated questions being asked about "Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?”, in a guest post on the current attacks by the state on public #HigherEd in the USA, by Sean L. Malloy utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?” (Guest Post)

Paris on September 1, 2016     By Sean L. Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), University of California...

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New publication alert! 🚨 Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine

A pleasure to reflect with the formidable Prof Takyiwaa Manuh recently on the state of the world, rights, international law, universities, & (academic) freedom & resistance. See her foreward to 'Being in Shadow & Light' here doi.org/10.11647/obp...

Reminding me of this proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide • Protean Magazine

Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, w...

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Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 28: 'Today’s problems do not reflect a failure to introduce market thinking but the effects of its long-term presence.’ (Christopher Newfield (2016): The Great Mistake, p.4)

A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: reconceptualising Boyer scholarship www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: Reconceptualising Boyer scholarship

Reporting on scholarly activity can be problematic for those working in higher education and can feel almost impossible for creative arts academics and administrators. Few current studies explore s...

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Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism. www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...

Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism.

Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.

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It would be decent if they didn't cancel everybody at midday the day they retire or leave. Academia is a community that exists beyond the walls of institutions. People have allegiances that reflect that. This reveals the gulf in understanding between management and academics.

Liz Morrish@lizmorrish.bsky.social · last yr.

Professor denied Emeritus status by Cardiff Uni. “I regard it as a new form of ‘cancellation’ of academics in universities prepared to speak out against the prevailing culture of managerialism. Managerialism is destroying Britain’s universities, and needs to be opposed.“ share.google/I25b5CGgqSFT...

How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social

The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research

Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...

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📣 Upcoming event: On Wednesday 2 July we will be joined by Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Professor Shuchen Xiang and @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social to discuss Re-thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia. Find out more and register here to join us: bit.ly/3HWKQtX

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Read & Share: Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

If you are interested in the institutionalisation, growth & current deterioration of structural support for ‘Women’s Studies’ (WS) in Indian public #HigherEd ... an OA version of this chapter is available on pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati... #gender #CriticalUniversityStudies

So pleased that the Athena Swann 2025 Lecture of my School @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social - Legitimising Othering, Reproducing Privilege? A Self-Reflexive Account of a ‘New Indian (Hindu)’ Feminist’ - will be by Dr Dhawan (Jadavpur University). 28 May Register: forms.office.com/e/XUQv7jXTdE

Grateful to these sexuality and gender journal editors for this statement of support Link is open access to Journal of Sex Research, kudos @cygraham.bsky.social @liamwignall.bsky.social and other signatories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky

Appreciative of collectively authored piece on our exhib 'Counter Narratives of Authority in Transition: Marginality in Indian Academia' engaged with at Uni of #Hyderabad During the visit of Ulrike Vieten my @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social colleague herald.uohyd.ac.in/counter-narr...

Grateful 4 warm reception by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social colleagues & students of our new book 'Emancipatory Imaginations: Advancing #CriticalUniversityStudies' at small gathering today. 👏 @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social 4 introducing book by reminding abt contind violences within & by western unis

🎞️A short film on Archee Roy's creative arts research for our project on Marginality in the Indian academy youtu.be/XKsiVhTY0-Y?... See more of the films on the related YouTube playlist 'Counter-Narratives'

Film of the artwork 'Dreams and Chaos' by Archee Roy (4min 21 sec)

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi@dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Journey into the exhibit with me - for a quick peek at our showing! #HigherEd #Academia #Marginality