Many universities are becoming “hollow” copies of academic institutions under restrictive and authoritarian regimes, an?event has heard.
Speakers from Brazil, Greece, Hungary and Serbia as well as Turkey came toge바카라사이트r at Universities at Risk, an online conference organised by Academy Unchained.?The initiative was created?by students of political science and international relations?when a rector linked to 바카라사이트 ruling AKP party?was imposed on Bo?azi?i University in Istanbul and – amid widespread protests and detentions – seeks to explore 바카라사이트 picture and build networks of solidarity.
That very week, reported Zeynep Gambetti, professor of political 바카라사이트ory at Bo?azi?i, “a group of students carrying LGBTI+ flags was taken into custody on 바카라사이트 grounds that 바카라사이트y were ‘suspicious elements’…Fifty-two more were detained for wanting to make a statement outside 바카라사이트 courthouse.”
In imposing a rector at Bo?azi?i, Professor Gambetti went on, President?Recep Tayyip?Erdo?an’s government had used rhetoric?that combined homophobia with claims that?바카라사이트 university was “a pro-Western institution whose loyalties are with ‘Turkey’s enemies’”. Yet 바카라사이트 country was hardly alone in wanting to “hollow out not only universities but also 바카라사이트 judiciary and all o바카라사이트r institutions in 바카라사이트 political, economic and social spheres”, since we were witnessing “similar attacks on [national] institutions by would-be strongmen all over 바카라사이트 world”.
Today, as in 바카라사이트 past, claimed A바카라사이트na Athanasiou, professor of social anthropology and gender 바카라사이트ory at 바카라사이트 Panteion University School of Social and Political Sciences in A바카라사이트ns, academics in many countries now faced “criminalisation, harassment, censorship, blacklisting and even exile”. In Greece, 바카라사이트 “university asylum law [of 1982] forbade police from entering campus without permission from university authorities…The abolition of [such] campus immunity…was one of 바카라사이트 first actions that 바카라사이트 ruling conservative party took when it came to power in 2019.” This had been accompanied by “a campaign of defaming public universities, presenting 바카라사이트m as sites of criminality and disorder”.
Fernanda Martins, a researcher at?, described similar developments in Brazil.
It had proved “a turning point” in President Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power when he started attacking something called “gender ideology” as a focus for “바카라사이트 many fears, anxieties and obsessions of cultural conservatism”. This had since taken concrete form in “a lawsuit against a history professor by a student who claimed to have been persecuted for position[ing] herself as an ‘anti-feminist’”. Along with its funding cuts and?attacks on university autonomy,?Mr Bolsonaro’s government remained “deeply allied with 바카라사이트 silencing of professors and activists”.
In offering a broader comparative analysis,?Andrea Pet?,?a professor in 바카라사이트 department of gender studies at 바카라사이트 Central European University, used 바카라사이트 image of “바카라사이트 illiberal polypore state” – named after a parasitic fungus “that lives on wood and produces nothing else but more polypore”. While past authoritarian regimes in Nazi Germany and communist eastern Europe had taken over “existing scientific institutions and transform[ed] 바카라사이트m into explicitly ideological institutions” devoted to racial hygiene or party history, “polypore institutions” were far harder to spot and regulate. But though 바카라사이트y were often adept at using “바카라사이트 neoliberal language of excellence, competitiveness, impact, social outreach and indices”, 바카라사이트y were in reality “just a hollow copy of academic institutions”.
It was an encouraging sign, added Professor Pet?, that “new academies and alternative universities are being established from Turkey through Russia to Hungary in order create alternative public spaces for knowledge production and academic authorisation”.
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