Research Catalog

Title

Academic repression : reflections from the academic-industrial complex / edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Steven Best, and Peter McLaren.

Publication

Edinburgh ; Oakland : AK Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nocella, Anthony J., II.
• Best, Steven.
• McLaren, Peter, 1948-

Description

590 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Academic freedom > United States
• Academic-industrial collaboration > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword : the company we keep / Michael Bérubé -- Preface : scholars under seige / Rik Scarce -- Introduction : the rise of the academic-industrial complex and the crisis in free speech / Steven Best, Anthony J. Nocella, II and Peter McLaren -- Higher education after September 11th : the crisis of academic freedom and democracy / Henry Giroux -- Academic repression : past and present / Michael Parenti -- The war against the "academic left" : from Gross and Levitt to Gitlin / Steven Best and Douglas Kellner -- Systemic aspects of academic repression in the new world order / Takis Fotopolous -- Academic freedom on the rock(s) : the failures of faculty in tough times / Robert Jensen -- The myth of academic freedom : reflections on the fraudulence of liberal principles in a neoconservative era / Ward Churchill -- Operation get fired : a chronicle of the academic repression of radical environmentalist and animal rights advocate-scholars / Richard Kahn -- Postmodern fascism and the long arm of Israel : reflections on the Finkelstein case / Bill Martin -- Radical is as radical does : practical engagement and the politics of campus organizing / Amory Starr -- Scholarship under the gun, lawsuit and innuendo / Christian Davenport -- Academic repression and academic responsibility / A. Peter Castro -- Teaching in a state of fear : Middle East studies in the "teeth of power" / Stepeh Sheehi -- From Colgate to Costa Rica : critical reflections on US academia / Victoria Fontan -- When knowledge kills : repressive tolerance and the future of academic freedom / Mark LeVine -- The role of African intellectuals and their relevance to the US : critical refections of a female scholar / Micere M. Githae Mugo -- Banned! Why a South African is going to court in the US / Adam Habib -- Women of color, tenure, and the neoliberal university / Maria E. Cotera -- Teaching theory, talking community / Joy James -- You are a scary woman : the personal politics of neo-McCarthyism / Dana Cloud -- Decolonial critics for academic freedom / Emma Pérez -- Regimes of normalcy in the academy : the experiences of disabled faculty / Liat Ben-Moshe and Sumi E. Colligan -- Adelphi recovers "the lengthening view" / Ali Shehzad Zaidi -- The carceral society : from the prison tower to the ivory tower / Caroline K. Kaltefleiter and Mechthild E. Nagel -- A working class student is something to be : anarchist reflections on the academy / Deric Shannon and William Armaline -- Academia and the culture of militarism / Mark Rupert -- Powerful compassion : the strike at Syracuse / Ali Shehzad Zaidi -- Intellectuals and empire / Carl Boggs -- The citizens among us : science, the public, and social change / Howard Zinn -- The three-legged stool : shared governance, academic freedom, and tenure / Cary Nelson -- Contingent faculty and the problem of structural repression / Gregory Tropea -- The right to think / Bill Ayers -- Educating for social justice and liberation / Peter McLaren -- The role of free universities in creating free societies / John Asimakopoulos -- Afterword : management's Kulturkampf / Marc Bosquet.

Call Number

JFE 10-5969

ISBN

• 9781904859987 (pbk.)
• 1904859984 (pbk.)

LCCN

2009922425

OCLC

321018666

Title

Academic repression : reflections from the academic-industrial complex / edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Steven Best, and Peter McLaren.

Imprint

Edinburgh ; Oakland : AK Press, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Nocella, Anthony J., II.

Best, Steven.

McLaren, Peter, 1948-

Research Call Number

JFE 10-5969