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In this unique study, emerging higher education leader and policy expert Kenneth D. Gariepy takes a Foucauldian genealogical approach to the study of the intellectually "free" subject through the analysis of selected academic freedom statement-events. Assuming academic freedom to be an institutionalized discourse-practice operating in the field of contemporary postsecondary education in Canada, a specific kind of cross-disciplinary, historico-theoretical research is conducted that pays particular attention to the productive nature and effects of power-knowledge. The intent is to disrupt academic freedom as commonsensical "good" and universal "right" in order to instead focus on how it is that the academic subject emerges as free/unfree to think - and therefore free/unfree to be - through particular, effective, and effecting regimes of truth and strategies of objectification and subjectification. In this way, the author suggests how it is that academic freedom operates as a set of systemically agonistic practices that might only realize a different economy of discourse through the contingent nature of the very social power that produces it. "Dr. Gariepy's use of Foucault's genealogi

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Author

Kenneth D. Gariepy (auth.)

Publisher

SensePublishers : Imprint : SensePublishers

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9789463003681

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Business, Education