Academic freedom and the enclosure of knowledge in the global university

Title: Academic freedom and the enclosure of knowledge in the global university
Creator: Federici, Sylvia
Subject: Academic Freedom -- South Africa Universities and colleges -- South Africa Equality Liberty Education and state -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa
Date: 2013
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/773
Identifier: vital:19989
Description: A discussion of 'academic freedom' is timely as everywhere, across the planet, this long fought-for principle is under siege. Trends, already emerging in Africa in the 1980s, are extending to every part of the world, contributing to what we can call 'a global enclosure of knowledge. ' This is the restriction of access to education to the 'happy few,' as knowledge and education are becoming commodified and profitability is becoming the sole logic by which the university is structured. Here I examine the most salient ways in which academic freedom is affected by these developments (with special reference to the United States) and, most important, how we can resist them. First, however, I consider what we mean by 'academic freedom,' since it is a concept that has been evolving, taking on new meanings, and is presently used with different connotations.
Format: pdf, 11 leaves
Publisher: Rhodes University
Language: English
Relation: Daantjie Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures, S.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures
Rights: Federici, Sylvia

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