The Imperial University
Subtitle: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780816680900
Subjects: Education, united states; Public schools, united states; Education, finance
Description: "At colleges and universities throughout the United States, political protest and intellectual dissent are increasingly being met with repressive tactics by administrators, politicians, and the police - from the use of SWAT teams to disperse student protestors and the profiling of Muslim and Arab American students to the denial of tenure and dismissal of politically engaged faculty. The Imperial University brings together scholars, including some who have been targeted for their open criticism of American foreign policy and settler colonialism, to explore the policing of knowledge by explicitly linking the academy to the broader politics of militarism, racism, nationalism, and neoliberalism that define the contemporary imperial state."--back cover.