Speaking Truth to Power: A Tale of Two Universities

Drucilla K. Barker

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2023, vol. 55, issue 1, 208-216

Abstract: This article compares the experiences of resistance and accommodation by the University of South Carolina (USC) and Boğaziçi University to the imposition of a right-wing head of university by government fiat. I begin with a description of the USC case and examine one scholarly response. I offer a critique of that response in terms of the problematics about the gendered subject when involving the principles of free speech and the importance of speaking truth to power. I then turn to the Boğaziçi case and briefly examine two scholarly responses contained in a dossier published in the South Atlantic Quarterly . I conclude with a brief discussion of the differences between the two universities and thoughts about what radicalism entails in practice. JEL Classification: A13, I21, H75, B5

Keywords: radical practice; radical economics; politics of education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/04866134221139310

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