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Book Academics in Exile

Download or read book Academics in Exile written by Vera Axyonova and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restrictions on academic freedom, persecution and armed conflict have forced many scholars into exile. So far, the professional trajectories of these scholars and their contributions to knowledge exchange have not been studied comprehensively. The contributors to this volume address the situations and networks of scholars in exile, the challenges they face in their host countries and the opportunities they use. These issues are highly relevant to discussions about the moral economies of higher education institutions and support programs. Although the contributions largely focus on Germany as a host country, they also offer telling examples of forced mobility in the Global South, including both contemporary and historical perspectives.

Book The Frankfurt School in Exile

Download or read book The Frankfurt School in Exile written by Thomas Wheatland and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Wheatland examines the influence of the Frankfurt School, or Horkheimer Circle, and how they influenced American social thought and postwar German sociology. He argues that, contrary to accepted belief, the members of the group, who fled oppression in Nazi Germany in 1934, had a major influence on postwar intellectual life.

Book A Light in Dark Times

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Friedlander
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2019-02-05
  • ISBN : 0231542577
  • Pages : 787 pages

Download or read book A Light in Dark Times written by Judith Friedlander and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education—providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to go to hear leading figures lecture on politics and the arts and recent developments in new fields of inquiry, such as anthropology and psychoanalysis. Then in 1933, after Hitler rose to power, Johnson created the University in Exile within the New School. Welcoming nearly two hundred refugees, Johnson, together with these exiled scholars, defiantly maintained the great traditions of Europe’s imperiled universities. Judith Friedlander reconstructs the history of the New School in the context of ongoing debates over academic freedom and the role of education in liberal democracies. Against the backdrop of World War I and the first red scare, the rise of fascism and McCarthyism, the student uprisings during the Vietnam War and the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe, Friedlander tells a dramatic story of intellectual, political, and financial struggle through illuminating sketches of internationally renowned scholars and artists. These include, among others, Charles A. Beard, John Dewey, José Clemente Orozco, Robert Heilbroner, Hannah Arendt, and Ágnes Heller. Featured prominently as well are New School students, trustees, and academic leaders. As the New School prepares to celebrate its one-hundredth anniversary, A Light in Dark Times offers a timely reflection on the legacy of this unique institution, which has boldly defended dissident intellectuals and artists in the United States and overseas.

Book Bullets in Envelopes

Download or read book Bullets in Envelopes written by Louis Yako and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social and intellectual history of Iraq told through the academic, political and social experiences of Iraqi academics in exile.

Book The Politics of Exile

Download or read book The Politics of Exile written by Elizabeth Dauphinee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most thought-provoking and refreshing work on Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia in a long time.It is certainly an immense contribution to the broadening schools within international relations." Times Higher Education (THE). Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured identity, of secrets and subterfuge, of love and alienation, of moral choice and the impossibility of ethics, this work challenges us to recognise pure narrative as an accepted form of writing in international relations. The author brings theory to life and gives corporeal reality to a wide range of concepts in international relations, including an exploration of the ways in which young academics are initiated into a culture where the volume of research production is more valuable than its content, and where success is marked not by intellectual innovation, but by conformity to theoretical expectations in research and teaching. This engaging work will be essential reading for all students and scholars of international relations and global politics.

Book Refugee Routes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vanessa Agnew
  • Publisher : transcript Verlag
  • Release : 2020-09-30
  • ISBN : 3839450136
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Refugee Routes written by Vanessa Agnew and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The displaced are often rendered silent and invisible as they journey in search of refuge. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples from Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, Syria, UK, Germany, France, the Balkan Peninsula, US, Canada, Australia, and Kenya, the contributions to this volume draw attention to refugees, asylum seekers, exiles, and forced migrants as individual subjects with memories, hopes, needs, rights, and a prospective place in collective memory. The book's wide-ranging theoretical, literary, artistic, and autobiographical contributions appeal to scholarly and lay readers who share concerns about the fate of the displaced in relation to the emplaced in this age of mass mobility.

Book Refugees in Extended Exile

Download or read book Refugees in Extended Exile written by Jennifer Hyndman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. Shifting the conversation away from the salient discourse of ‘solutions’ and technical fixes within state-centric international relations, the authors recover the subjectivity lost for those stuck in extended exile. The book first argues that humanitarian assistance to refugees remains vital to people’s survival, even after the emergency phase is over. It then connects asylum politics in the global North with the intransigence of extended exile in the global South. By placing the urgent crises of protracted exile within a broader constellation of power relations, both historical and geographical, the authors present research and empirical findings gleaned from refugees in Iran, Kenya and Canada and from humanitarian and government workers. Each chapter reveals patterns of power circulating through the ‘colonial present’, Cold War legacies, and the global ‘war on terror". Seeking to render legible the more quotidian struggles and livelihoods of people who find themselves defined as refugees, this book will be of great interest to international humanitarian agencies, as well as migration and refugee researchers, including scholars in refugee studies and human displacement, human security, globalization, immigration, and human rights.

Book Exile and Gender II  Politics  Education and the Arts

Download or read book Exile and Gender II Politics Education and the Arts written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 18 in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies is entitled Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts. It is edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, and is intended as a companion volume to Volume 17, which focused on literature and the press. This new volume considers the life and work of exiled women politicians, academics and artists, among others, examining the ways – both positive and negative - in which their exile affected them. The sixteen contributions, which are in English or German, set out to throw new light on aspects of gendered relations and experiences of women in exile in Great Britain and Ireland. Contributors are: Jana Barbora Buresova, Rachel Dickson, Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Gisela Holfter, Hadwig Kraeutler, Ulrike Krippner, Dieter Krohn, Gertrud Lenz, Bea Lewkowicz, Sarah MacDougall, John March, Iris Meder, Irene Messenger, Merilyn Moos, Felicitas M. Starr-Egger, Jennifer Taylor, Gaby Weiner.

Book Weimar in Exile

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Michel Palmier
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2017-01-31
  • ISBN : 1784786462
  • Pages : 934 pages

Download or read book Weimar in Exile written by Jean-Michel Palmier and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world, they continued the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.

Book At the Margins of Academia

Download or read book At the Margins of Academia written by Aslı Vatansever and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Margins of Academia offers a broader approach to academic labor precarity and the ever-growing academic migration from Turkey to Europe, based on the author’s own experiences and on in-depth interviews with the exiled Peace Academics

Book Global South Scholars in the Western Academy

Download or read book Global South Scholars in the Western Academy written by Staci B. Martin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why don't you study your own country?" Situating the semi-self, amongst hybrid identities / Julten Abdelhalim -- Settler colonial curriculum in Carlisle Boarding School : a historical and personal qualitative research study / Patrick Gerard Eagle Staff -- Between confidence and mistrust, rejection and collaboration : Anglolan Region drums in third academic space at Universidade Federal de Minas, Brazil / Felix Ulombe Kaputu -- How to be a good immigrant in Australian academia / Diana Carolina Arbeláez-Ruiz -- Inclusion and exclusion of postcolonial subjects in knowledge production : academic experience in Sweden, Cameroon, and Germany / Jonathan Ngeh -- Cannibalizing the foundations of western civilization / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- Acculturation : navigating academia as a third culture child / Marcella Chiromo -- Like a laughing dove : defining and decolonizing spaces in the western academy / Lydia Wanja Gitau -- Challenging the binary : reflections on multiple and unconventional positionality through a lens of multi-layered institutional whiteness / Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Kyoko Shinozaki -- Disrupting trauma tourism in diversity workshops and scholarship essays : a participatory study describing counternarratives by queer, trans, and students of colour / Óscar Fernández, Staci B. Martin, Luz Maria Anaya, Anayeli Diaz-Espinoza, Wendy Soriano-Valencia, Stevie Cadiz, Hollis Kinner, Crystal Romero -- The role of memory and emotions in the long migration journey to Germany / Deepra Dandekar -- Transforming ordinary spaces into hopeful spaces / Staci B. Martin, Debra Tavares, D. Philipos, Milan Alvarez, Aline Maranghi, Irving Sanchez Cisneros, Danna Diaz, David Peterson del Mar -- History dialogues : opportunities and challenges of oral history research through refugee voices, narratives, and memories / Mohamed Zakaria Abdalla, Richesse Ndiritiro, Shaema Omar, Kate Reed, Samson Rer, Marcia C. Schenk, Gerawork Teferra -- Reconceptualizing academic mobility in exile : advancing a more equitable exchange of ideas / Chelsea A. Blackburn Cohen, Alfred Babo, Sarina S. Rosenthal.

Book Syrian Academics in Exile

Download or read book Syrian Academics in Exile written by Paul O'Keeffe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At the Margins of Academia

Download or read book At the Margins of Academia written by Aslı Vatansever and published by International Comparative Soci. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Margins of Academia offers a broader approach to academic labor precarity and the ever-growing academic migration from Turkey to Europe, based on the author's own experiences and on in-depth interviews with the exiled Peace Academics

Book Migration  Diaspora  Exile

Download or read book Migration Diaspora Exile written by Daniel Stein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the figure of the “exile” as it moves across times, borders, and genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora, migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent confrontations.

Book Academics in a Century of Displacement

Download or read book Academics in a Century of Displacement written by Leyla Dakhli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Globalization and the Mobility of Ideas

Download or read book Globalization and the Mobility of Ideas written by Chelsea Ann Blackburn Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three decades have seen significant changes for higher education institutions throughout the world. The era of globalization has left little untouched and both our society and colleges and universities look, think, and operate differently as a result. Notwithstanding the movement toward global interdependence and intercultural rhetoric in mission statements, there is little in the academic literature on the topic of higher education engagement with displaced academics. This research draws on interviews with a variety of multidisciplinary scholars from around the world who have had to flee their home countries due to the political and/or ideological nature of their intellectual work, and who now hold appointments at U.S. higher education institutions through the Scholars at Risk network. This research, in turn, is framed by the following questions: How do displaced academics view academic freedom in their home countries and in the United States? What factors safeguard and/or threaten the tenets of academic freedom? What observations have displaced academics drawn from their experiences in U.S. colleges and universities? How have displaced academics interacted with their academic communities through their teaching and research? Thematic analysis is informed by tenets of critical geography that aim to better understand the changing dynamics of a globalization era across space, place, and time, as well as a juxtaposing view of the movement of knowledge on one hand and people on the other (Bartlett & Vavrus, 2017; Massey, 2005). Findings reveal that restrictions to academic freedom range from explicit to implicit, and that implicit restrictions are a common feature of U.S. academic life. Further, to adequately understand the experiences of exile is to conceptualize a geography of mobility and immobility, where displaced academics must contend with being removed but still connected. Knowledge production and exchange also is susceptible to mobility and immobility, and the experiences of displaced academics reveal the ways in which these barriers can be circumnavigated. Finally, displaced academics in U.S. institutions offer extraordinarily relevant perspectives on the state of U.S. higher education, and are far more valuable to their hosting communities than their academic output alone.

Book The Tibetan Government in Exile

Download or read book The Tibetan Government in Exile written by Stephanie Römer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in northern India. Since its founding in 1959, it has been led by the 14th Dalai Lama who struggles to regain the Tibetan homeland. Based on a theoretical approach on exile organizations – and extensive empirical studies in Asia – this book discusses CTA’s political strategies to gain national loyalty, and international support, in order to secure its own organizational survival and the ultimate goal: the return to Tibet. The book is organized around the two fundamental questions: firstly, how the CTA fosters its claims to be the sole representative of all Tibetans over the last decades in exile; and, secondly, which policies have been carried out in order to regain the homeland. The book is divided into four substantial chapters: the historical background, providing a review of pre-1959 political Tibet a theoretical section which covers the critical position of exile organizations an examination of the exile Tibetan community and government from the early years an analysis of crucial CTA policies. Innovative and unique, this book combines a political science approach with Tibetan studies to analyse exile-Tibetan politics in particular, and exile governments in general.