Silencing Mechanisms in Academia: Towards Collaborative Innovation to Support Critical Social Science

Mustafa F. Özbilgin () and Cihat Erbil
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Mustafa F. Özbilgin: Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London, London UB8 3PH, UK
Cihat Erbil: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, 06560 Ankara, Turkey

Administrative Sciences, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: Critical social science (CSS) is a framework of social science that questions uneven relations of power to achieve transformative change towards equitable social outcomes. Scholars who pursue CSS are often politically and socially engaged to promote social progress, which puts them in direct conflict with hierarchies and hegemonic structures of power. As a result, CSS and scholars in this tradition have been the target of backlash that seeks to silence CSS in academia. We explain three dominant silencing mechanisms in academia that frame the backlash and attacks against CSS. Theorising collaborative innovation, we offer multilevel and inclusive design and solidarity as possible venues for resistance against the ongoing purge of CSS, which undermines autonomy, freedom of speech, and equality in academia.

Keywords: critical social science; silence; collaborative innovation; neoliberalism; higher education; academia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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