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Speaking Truth to Power: A Tale of Two Universities

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  • Drucilla K. Barker

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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

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  • Drucilla K. Barker, 2023. "Speaking Truth to Power: A Tale of Two Universities," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 55(1), pages 208-216, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:55:y:2023:i:1:p:208-216
    DOI: 10.1177/04866134221139310
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    Keywords

    radical practice; radical economics; politics of education;
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    JEL classification:

    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches

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