Power, knowledge, and universities: Turkey’s dismissed ‘academics for peace’

Tutkal, Serhat

doi:10.1080/17508487.2020.1783335

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“…These collectives mainly aim to function as a means not only for these academics dismissed from their positions to maintain their scholarly dignity-even as they cannot maintain their livelihood-but also as a catalyst for prefigurative politics through the politicization and organization of a new group of scholars, creating activism around learning, teaching, and acquiring knowledge practices in a way that could not be done in the more restrictive environment of Turkey's formal institutions (Başer, Akgönül, & Öztürk, 2017;Erdem & Akın, 2019). In line with the patterns of resistance in tight spaces of oppression (Rosales & Langhout, 2020), this wave of collective action currently continues via several small-scale vessels with two major aims: prioritizing societal peace through academic knowledge production and existing as academics outside the neoliberal university but not fully free from the larger neoliberal system (e.g., Tutkal, 2020).…”

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Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey

Coskan

Acar

Bayad

2021

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Academic Collective Action (ACA) stands as a small-scale collective action for social change toward liberation, independence and equity in academia. Academic collectives in Turkey, as an example of ACA, prefigure building academia outside the university by emphasizing the extent to which neoliberal academia has already prepared the groundwork for more recent waves of oppression. In this research, we aim to reveal the manifestations of neoliberalism in ACA as captured with prominent social/political psychological concepts of collective action. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 dismissed academics to understand the social and political psychological processes in academic collectives. The narrations of ACA were accompanied by manifestations of neoliberalism as experienced by dismissed academics. We found that, as follows from the existing conceptual tools of collective action, neoliberalism serves as an embedded contextual factor in the process of ACA. This becomes mostly visible for grievances but also for collective identifications, politicization, motivations, finding/allocating resources and sustaining academic collectives. We provide a preliminary basis to understand the role of neoliberalism in organization, mobilization and empowerment dynamics of collective action.

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Section: Research Context In Turkey: "Academia Does Not Bow!"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey

Coskan

Acar

Bayad

2021

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Political appointments to rector positions: a shifting landscape in Turkish academia

Elgin

2024

Discov Educ

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This paper examines the shifting landscape of higher education in Turkey, highlighting a disconcerting trend of politically motivated appointments, coined as “parasailing.” Departing from traditional merit-based norms, this practice of appointing professors without necessary approvals disrupts the academic environment, prompting concerns about the integrity of higher education institutions. The paper introduces the term “parasailing” to elucidate this phenomenon, emphasizing the connection between the appointed professor and their academic destination. In contrast to the widely used term “parachuting,” in Turkish academia the proposed terminology offers a better understanding of the appointment process. The subsequent sections provide an overview of the Turkish academic landscape, explore the origin of the term “parachuting,” review existing literature, define “parasailing,” and connect it to different philosophical thoughts. Overall, this paper contributes to a broader comprehension of the challenges facing Turkish higher education, urging a reconsideration of appointment procedures.

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Academia and authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: the embodied consequences of the ‘peace petition’

Tutkal

2021

Journal of Education Policy

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Power, knowledge, and universities: Turkey’s dismissed ‘academics for peace’

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey

Revealing the manifestations of neoliberalism in academia: Academic collective action in Turkey

Political appointments to rector positions: a shifting landscape in Turkish academia

Academia and authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: the embodied consequences of the ‘peace petition’

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