Intellectual Citizenship and the Problem of Incarnation
Who has the right to know? asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. Who has the right to eat? asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a 'northern' university given the incarnate connections between the university's operations and death and suffering elsewhere? Through studies of the neoliberal university in Ontario, the imperial university in relation to East Timor, the chauvinist university in relation to El Salvador, and the gendered university in relation to the Montreal Massacre, the author challenges himself and the reader to practice intellectual citizenship everywhere from the classroom to the un…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7618-5988-8
- EAN: 9780761859888
- Produktnummer: 13573239
- Verlag: University Press Of America
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 202 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.6 cm 471 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 471
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