|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in
an era of racial reckoning? The protests of summer 2020, which were
ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue
reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both
American academe and cultural life more generally. But while
universities have been willing to rename some buildings and schools
or grapple with their role in the slave trade, no one has yet asked
the most uncomfortable question: Does academic freedom extend to
racist professors? It's Not Free Speech considers the ideal of
academic freedom in the wake of the activism inspired by outrageous
police brutality, white supremacy, and the #MeToo movement. Arguing
that academic freedom must be rigorously distinguished from freedom
of speech, Michael Berube and Jennifer Ruth take aim at explicit
defenses of colonialism and theories of white supremacy-theories
that have no intellectual legitimacy whatsoever. Approaching this
question from two angles-one, the question of when a professor's
intramural or extramural speech calls into question his or her
fitness to serve, and two, the question of how to manage the
simmering tension between the academic freedom of faculty and the
antidiscrimination initiatives of campus offices of diversity,
equity, and inclusion-they argue that the democracy-destroying
potential of social media makes it very difficult to uphold the
traditional liberal view that the best remedy for hate speech is
more speech. In recent years, those with traditional liberal ideals
have had very limited effectiveness in responding to the resurgence
of white supremacism in American life. It is time, Berube and Ruth
write, to ask whether that resurgence requires us to rethink the
parameters and practices of academic freedom. Touching as well on
contingent faculty, whose speech is often inadequately protected,
It's Not Free Speech insists that we reimagine shared governance to
augment both academic freedom and antidiscrimination initiatives on
campuses. Faculty across the nation can develop protocols that
account for both the new realities-from the rise of social media to
the decline of tenure-and the old realities of long-standing
inequities and abuses that the classic liberal conception of
academic freedom did nothing to address. This book will resonate
for anyone who has followed debates over #MeToo, Black Lives
Matter, Critical Race Theory, and "cancel culture"; more
specifically, it should have a major impact on many facets of
academic life, from the classroom to faculty senates to the office
of the general counsel.
Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed
a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural
transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center
populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the “New
Berlin” is at the same time a rich site of historical memory,
defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and
European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New
Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany’s
largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization,
ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its
urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.
|
The Ultimate Friend-Snorfler
Shelle Renae; Illustrated by Jennifer Ruth; Jennifer Ruth
|
R304
Discovery Miles 3 040
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the
medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the
Second World War, the first "social transformation of American
medicine." Then, in an ongoing process called medicalization, the
jurisdiction of medicine began expanding, redefining certain areas
once deemed moral, social, or legal problems (such as alcoholism,
drug addiction, and obesity) as medical problems. The editors of
this important collection argue that since the mid-1980s, dramatic,
and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution,
organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have
coalesced into biomedicalization, the second major transformation
of American medicine. This volume offers in-depth analyses and case
studies along with the groundbreaking essay in which the editors
first elaborated their theory of biomedicalization.
"Contributors." Natalie Boero, Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer R.
Fishman, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Kelly Joyce, Jonathan Kahn, Laura
Mamo, Jackie Orr, Elianne Riska, Janet K. Shim, Sara Shostak
Since Unification and the end of the Cold War, Berlin has witnessed
a series of uncommonly intense social, political, and cultural
transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center
populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens, the "New
Berlin" is at the same time a rich site of historical memory,
defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and
European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New
Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germany's
largest city, revealing the complex ways in which globalization,
ethnicity, economics, memory, and national identity inflect how its
urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|