The Struggle for Academic Freedom in an Age of Post-truth

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

South Atlantic Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-01-20 DOI:10.1215/00382876-9561629

Zeynep Gambetti

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Abstract

This essay situates the struggle for academic freedom and university autonomy at Boğaziçi University within the broader framework of post-truth. Post-truth is defined as a disinvestment from long-established norms regulating what counts as true, without introducing new criteria in their place. As such, it is a state of constant disorientation. The main argument is that post-truth has a material power basis: it is neither an intellectual problem nor one that can be solved by recourse to liberal rights. By briefly showing how neoliberalism, the New Right, and biopolitical governmentality connect and reinforce each other, the essay then asks what academic freedom can signify given the new game of power. The Boğaziçi resistance, it argues, shows how defending academic freedom cannot solely be an academic matter.

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后真相时代的学术自由之争

本文将Boğaziçi大学争取学术自由和大学自治的斗争置于后真相的更广泛框架内。后真相被定义为从规范什么是真实的长期建立的规范中撤资，而不引入新的标准来取代它们。因此，这是一种不断迷失方向的状态。主要论点是，后真相具有物质权力基础:它既不是一个智力问题，也不是一个可以通过诉诸自由权利来解决的问题。通过简要地展示新自由主义、新右翼和生物政治治理是如何相互联系和加强的，文章接着提出了在新的权力游戏中，学术自由意味着什么。它认为，Boğaziçi的抵制表明，捍卫学术自由不能仅仅是一个学术问题。

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