Power, Discourse, Ethics: A Policy Study of Academic Freedom

By Kenneth D. Gariepy

Book Overview

In this unique study, emerging higher education leader and policy expert Kenneth D. Gariepy takes a Foucauldian genealogical approach to the study of the intellectually "free" subject through the analysis of selected academic freedom statement-events. Assuming academic freedom to be an institutionalized discourse-practice operating in the field of contemporary postsecondary education in Canada, a specific kind of cross-disciplinary, historico-theoretical research is conducted that pays particular attention to the productive nature and effects of power-knowledge. The intent is to disrupt academic freedom as commonsensical "good" and universal "right" in order to instead focus on how it is that the academic subject emerges as free/unfree to think--and therefore free/unfree to be--through particular, effective, and effecting regimes of truth and strategies of objectification and subjectification. In this way, the author suggests how it is that academic freedom operates as a set of systemically agonistic practices that might only realize a different economy of discourse through the contingent nature of the very social power that produces it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463003681
• ISBN13: 9789463003681
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"