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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results38 Connexions Library2 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 2 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 3 Sources Library Connexions LibraryAbsent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain Collini, Stefan Book 2006 An argument against what Collini calls the 'declinist thesis', the belief that contemporary intellectual life is getting increasingly dumbed down and stagnant. Declinists, Collini suggests, are in den... Academic Bullying the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy Piety, M.G. Article 2017 Workplace bullying is an increasing problem. Books are being written about it, and there is even a Workplace Bullying Institute. The problem isn't restricted to the business world. Books such as Facul... Academic Fraud and the Ponzi Scheme of 'Higher Learning': Higher Education in Crisis DiMaggio, Anthony Article 2014 It’s sad to say, but U.S. higher education increasingly resembles a pyramid scheme. The schools at the top continue to compete for elite students, by appealing to prospective applicants via the creati... Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia Frim, Landon; Fluss, Harrison Article 2017 Criticizing Enlightenment thought has become fashionable across the political spectrum. For the past several decades, more and more academics have called reason into question. This is especially true ... Am I a bad feminist? Atwood, Margaret Article 2018 My fundamental position is that women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails, including criminal ones. They're not angels, incapable of wrongdoing. Nor do... American Power and the New Mandarins  Chomsky, Noam Book 1969 Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the Ame... Bound By Power: Intended Consequences Klaehn, Jeffery (ed.) Book These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power an... The Case Against Alan Dershowitz: Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations Menetrez, Frank J. Article 2008 Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
CIA Off Campus: Building the Movement Against Agency Recruitment and Research Mills, Ami Chen Book 1990 Mills describes campus organizing against the CIA's recruiting and research programs on campus. She also describes how to detect secret CIA activities and how to combat them. She gives voice to the mu... Connexions Library: Education, Children Focus Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on education and children. The Dangerous Academic is an Extinct Species Nair, Yasmin Article 2017 Nair analyzes current academia and the structures in place that prevent academics and students from putting forth ideas that challenge the status quo. Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism Warraq, Ibn Book 2008 A methodical deconstruction of Edward Said's Orientalism.
EducationSources.ca Website 2017 Web portal with sources of information about education and academia, including articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and imp... Edward Said, Orientalism: Reviewed by Malcolm Kerr Kerr, Malcolm Article 1980 The book contains many excellent sections and scores many telling points, but it is spoiled by overzealous prosecutorial argument in which Professor Said, in his eagerness to spin too large a web, lea... For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their enemies Irwin, Robert Book 2006 A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignan... Free Speech and Acceptable Truths: Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech Alumni for Responsible Speech (Ulli Diemer) Article 2008 While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by in... Helping you reach the media: How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage Article 2009 Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity ... How Does the Subaltern Speak? Chibber, Vivek Article 2013 Vivek Chibber argues that postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril. Focusing particularly on the strain of postcolonial theory known as subaltern... Humanism Betrayed: Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University Good, Graham Book 2001 This book offers a defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominat... Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution: Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes Draper, Hal Book 1978 Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. Manifesto of a Tenured Radical Nelson, Cary Book 1997 Divided into three parts: "The Politics of English," "The Academy and the Culture Debates," and "Lessons from the Job Wars." The Menace of Liberal Scholarship Chomsky, Noam Article 1969 Noam Chomsky builds upon Senator Fullbright's criticism of social science scholars which suggests that they have failed to act as independent critics of government policies and having instead become a... No Grades in Higher Education Now!: Is the Revolution any closer? Rancourt, Denis Article 2015 Author and social scientist Stuart Tannock has recently published a historical and critical overview of the practice of grading in education. Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship Chomsky, Noam Book 2003 Chomsky's classic analysis of the liberal scholarship that justified American foreign policy and aggression during the 1960s. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016: Back to School Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Article 2016 Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which edu... A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association Wald, Alan Article 2014 Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia. 'Radical Academia: Beyond the Audit Culture Treadmill' Cahill, Rowan; Irving, Terry Article 2015 It was not just in economics that the radicals retreated; it happened in all the social sciences and humanities. And not just because of political timidity; they had been outflanked. Knowledge product... The reactionary, class nature of left Academia today Mellor, Richard Article 2017 Mellor challenges the idea that socialism is eurocentric and speaks to how capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance is fundamentally similar all over the world. Reading Orientalism: Said and the unsaid Varisco, Daniel Martin Book 2008 An extensive discussion of Edward Said's influential 1978 polemic 'Orientalism'. Varisco mounts a sustained critique on Said's flawed methodology, his skewed and selective handling of literary evidenc... Review: Political War Over Palestine: Against The Current vol. 131 Finkel, David Article 2007 It has become impossible to review titles like these, or discuss the issues they raise, without reference to the rise of an exceptionally vicious campaign against critical activist voices and academic... Said, Edward, Critical Notes on Habib, Irfan Article 2005 Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Ori... Edward Said's shadowy legacy: Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate Irwin, Robert Article 2008 So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies. Silent Coup: How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses Price, David Article 2010 Telling the Truth: Socialist Register 2006 Panitch, Leo; Keys, Colin (eds.) Book 2005 A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life. Ten Days That Shook the University: On the Poverty of Student Life Article 1966 Published in 1966 at the University of Strasbourg by students of the university and members of the Internationale Situationniste. The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex Giroux, Henry A. Book 2007 Details how two decades of shifts in university funding brought increased intrusions by corporate and military forces onto university. After 9/11, the intelligence agencies pushed campuses to see the ... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesChomsky.info The Noam Chomsky Web site.
Sources Sources specializes in collecting, indexing, and disseminating information to help journalists, editors, and researchers quickly reach articulate experts and spokespersons who can provide background i... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryAcademic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors Seguiin, Eve 2016 If you’re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, be... Academics can change the world -- if they stop talking only to their peers Heleta, Savo 2016 Heleta discusses the limited audience that academics publish for and the lack of real-world impact their ideas have as a result. Sources Select Universities, Colleges, and Institutes 2009 Academic experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise. |
