LEADER 04741nam 2201177z- 450 001 9910557429803321 005 20231214133107.0 035 $a(CKB)5400000000043425 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/76757 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000043425 100 $a20202201d2021 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChallenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues 210 $aBasel, Switzerland$cMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute$d2021 215 $a1 electronic resource (182 p.) 311 $a3-0365-0826-0 311 $a3-0365-0827-9 330 $aSome social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ?Academic freedom? is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ?normal? factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ?gagging?. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles. 517 $aChallenging Academia 606 $aHumanities$2bicssc 606 $aSocial interaction$2bicssc 610 $aEarly Childhood Education and Care 610 $achild sexual abuse 610 $aprevention policies 610 $ano touch 610 $ateacher?child relationships 610 $amale childcare workers 610 $astigma 610 $adiscrimination 610 $afear 610 $apanopticon 610 $amoral panic 610 $aBrazilian academia 610 $ainterviewing for faculty positions 610 $aLattes CV 610 $ameritocracy 610 $acriminalisation 610 $aharm 610 $alaw 610 $acriminal justice 610 $afreedom 610 $arisk 610 $aabuse 610 $aliberal 610 $avictim 610 $avulnerability 610 $acritical thinking 610 $aidentity politics 610 $aacademic freedom 610 $afree speech 610 $avictimhood 610 $aanti-discriminatory practice 610 $aneoliberalism 610 $ashadow management 610 $anew public management 610 $aombudsman 610 $arule of law 610 $atransparency 610 $ahigher education 610 $abody journal 610 $aCoronavirus 610 $acorporal identity 610 $anarratives 610 $apandemic 610 $aparenthood 610 $aclan 610 $aacademic taboo 610 $aSweden 610 $astate 610 $apostcolonialism 610 $aresearch methods 610 $adisparity 610 $adisaggregating data 610 $aAsian Americans 610 $adisability 610 $amental health 610 $amodel minority myth 610 $afree inquiry 610 $acensorship 610 $aconformity 610 $amoral panics 610 $awitch hunts 610 $aheresy 610 $agender mainstreaming 610 $aLehrfreiheit 610 $auniversity autonomy 610 $aUNESCO 615 7$aHumanities 615 7$aSocial interaction 700 $aPiper$b Heather$4edt$01122046 702 $aLeander$b M.A$4edt 702 $aPiper$b Heather$4oth 702 $aLeander$b M.A$4oth 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557429803321 996 $aChallenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues$93033868 997 $aUNINA