Academics in a Century of Displacement : The Global History and Politics of Protecting Endangered Scholars

• Autore: Dakhli Leyla
• Pubblicazione: Wiesbaden : , : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.8
• Altri autori: LaborierPascale WolffFrank
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Endangered Scholars: Globalizing the Long History of an Emergent Category. Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Toward Chronology Without Linearity -- 2.1 Western Philanthropic Universalism and Academic Internationalization in the Interwar Period -- 2.2 Relief for Persecuted Scholars in the 1930s -- 2.3 From Postwar Displacement to Cold War Migration -- 2.4 The Postcolonial World and the Emergence of the Global South -- 2.5 International Advocacy Initiatives: From Spontaneous Relief Funds to Universal Programs -- 3 Examining Protection and Endangerment -- References -- Discovering the Endangered Scholar -- An Exceptional Welcome: The Russian Academic Exile in Prague (1920-1939)-State Policy and Experiences -- 1 Historical and Political Parameters of the Russian Action -- 2 Russian Action and the Diversity of Its Achievements -- 3 The Ephemeral Magnitude of the Russian Action -- References -- Persecuted Scholars as Employees? German-Speaking Scholars at Risk and the Global History of Higher Education -- 1 The Modern University, Academic Labor Relations, and Professional Mobility -- 2 Displacement and the Professional World of Universities: The Case of Republican Turkey -- 3 Placement Policies and Procedures: The Case of Latin America -- 4 Struggle Over Competence: Placement Policies at the Carnegie Corporation -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Saved by the Seminary: German Refugee Rabbis' Careers During and After the Holocaust-A Transnational Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Modern Judaism and a New Rabbinate -- 2.1 Historic Connections -- 3 Flight and Expulsion of Wissenschaft des Judentums, of Rabbinical Students and the Communal Rabbinate -- 3.1 A Unique Rescue Effort by Their American Peers -- 4 Professional Challenges After Immigration -- 4.1 The "Last Generation" of the German Rabbinate. ; 4.2 Refugee Returns -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Refuge in Research: Walter Ruben's Exile and Internment in Turkey -- 1 The Internment of German Nationals -- 1.1 Producing a Life in Exile -- 1.2 Religion and Relief -- 2 Walter Ruben: An Indologist in Ankara -- 2.1 Serving the Republic of Turkey -- 2.2 Walter Ruben in Kırşehir -- 3 Life After Exile -- 4 Conclusion: Scholarship in Exile -- References -- Toward Categorization -- 'Desire Is Born Out of Collapse': The Paradoxical Consequences of Forced Migrations (Argentina, 1958-2015) -- 1 De-institutionalization, Discontinuous State Policies, and Forced Migrations -- 1.1 Groups of Agents by Age (as of 2015) -- 2 Forced Internationalization: Paradoxical Consequences -- 3 Indicators, Case Studies, and a Future Conceptual Construction -- References -- Overlapping Categories? Some Thoughts from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) Archive -- 1 Overlapping Categories -- 1.1 Refugees as Elites in Exile -- 1.2 Scientists as Targets of Government Persecution in Their Countries of Origin -- 2 Categories in Tension -- 2.1 Difficulties of Reclassification -- 2.2 Scientists in Danger but Not Refugees -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- The Forced Migrations of Scholars During the Uruguayan Dictatorship: Refuge and Academic Labor Market Overlap? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conditions for Carrying Out a Survey on a Population with Heterogeneous Properties -- 2.1 Temporalities of Academic Migrations and Their Delimitations -- 2.2 Overlapping Dangers -- 2.3 Methodological Issues Inherent to Research on Forced Academic Migrations -- 3 The Impact of Exile on the Trajectories of Highly Qualified Migrants in the Context of Dictatorship -- 3.1 An Interweaving of Exiles and International Influences: Disparity Between Disciplines. ; 3.2 Friendships and New Family Structures as Bulwarks Against Career Hindrances -- 4 Democratic Academic Design Invented in Exile -- 5 Experimental Sciences Versus Human and Social Sciences? -- 5.1 A Lesser Known Political Narrative in Terms of Reintegration in Uruguay -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- A Support Network for Endangered Scholars during the Late Cold War. The Committee of Mathematicians and a Broad Human Rights Coalition in France -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cause Entrepreneurs: The French Initiators of the CM -- 3 A Broader Activist Front -- 4 Genealogies of Principles and Forms of Political Action -- 5 "Allied" Professional Groups: Committed Psychiatrists and Cause Lawyers -- 6 Competition, Confrontation, Cooperation -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- "L'intelligence qu'on assassine": Endangered Intellectual as a Contested Category During the Algerian Civil War -- 1 A "War Against Culture" -- 2 The CISIA: Welcoming Intelligence and Francophonie? -- 3 Over-Selection of the "Pieds-gris" -- 4 Being Welcomed as an Endangered Intellectual -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Contemporary Challenges -- Are African Scholars at Risk? The Invisibility of Africans in Relief Policies for Endangered Academics -- 1 Individual Situations of Endangerment and Micro-Rescue Initiatives Matter: The Case of Cameroon -- 1.1 Insidious Risks and Micro-Rescue Networks: From Jean-Marc Ela to Carlson Anyangwe -- 1.2 The International Recognition of Cameroon as Risky for Scholars: Lessons from the Case of Patrice Nganang -- 2 The Place of Danger Matters: The Recent Rise of African Scholars in Risk Categories -- 2.1 A Path Dependency of Initial Relief Policies and the Categorization of Academic Risks -- 2.2 Categorizing Academic Endangerment in Post-Cold War Africa: A Disjunction in Endogenous and Exogenous Qualification -- 3 Conclusion -- References. ; Constraints on Academic Freedom in the People's Republic of China: A Transnational Issue -- 1 The Ubiquitous Presence of the Community Party in Chinese Universities -- 2 Universities in China Under Xi Jinping: Ideological Tightening and Repression -- 3 Attacks on Academic Freedom Beyond China's Borders -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Intellectuals in Exile: Toward a Comparative Approach to the Conditions of Creativity and Unequal Opportunities -- 1 Chances of Integration: Symbolic and Social Capital -- 2 Turning Points and Effects of Exile: Politicization, Reflexivity, Cultural Mediation -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Exiled Scholars and Legal Insecurity in Germany: An Auto-Ethnographic Account -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Topographies of Legal Insecurity for Exiled Scholars: Navigating the Categories of German Migration Law -- 3 Administrative Discretion Enhances Legal Insecurity -- 4 Surviving the Legal Restrictions of Residence, Work, and Mobility -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Intellectuals in Exile and Endangered Scholars: Evolving Categories in the Contemporary Middle East -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Forced into Exile -- 2.1 A Journey Among Many Others: Sadiq Jalal al-Azm -- 2.2 The Long History of Mid-Eastern Intellectual Displacement and Its Echoes -- 2.3 Who Is an Arab Scholar and What Kind of Risk Are They Facing Today? -- 2.4 Three Voices from the Middle East in Exile -- 3 Amr Hamzawy: Exile (2017) -- 4 Rana Issa: Chronicles of a Mothalovin' Penslayer (2020) -- 5 Nisrine al-Zahre: Running with Your Shoelaces Undone: Fragments from the Life of an Academic Exile (April 2021) -- 5.1 An Invisible Joker -- 5.2 Becoming an Unbearable Reflection of One's Contemporaries -- 5.3 Allodoxia -- 5.4 Setting Up Projects -- 5.5 Disqualification -- 5.6 Complaining -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Academics in a Century of Displacement
• ISBN: 3-658-43540-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910845484303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Migrationsgesellschaften Series