Enforcing Silence - by David Landy & Ronit Lentin & Conor McCarthy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of different national contexts. It looks at how the increased neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current climate, and considers how academics and their universities should respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend our universities as places for critical thinking and free expression"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focused on "no platforming" by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats, and online harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic criticism of Israel.</p><p>This collection uses the controversies surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of different national contexts. It looks at how the increased neoliberalization of higher education has shaped the current climate, and considers how academics and their universities should respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the United States and Europe, <em>Enforcing Silence</em> shows us how we can and must defend our universities as places for critical thinking and free expression.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"As global support for Palestinian justice grows steadily, the silencing of criticism of Israel takes new aggressive forms. To understand why this is the case, and how the politics of Israel-Palestine has become indelibly connected to academic freedom, read this valuable and wide-ranging collection." --<i>Bashir Abu-Manneh, University of Kent</i> <p/>"Criticism of Israel has become the litmus test of "academic freedom". Anyone believing that this is, at bottom, a straightforward and unquestionable notion will change their mind after reading this very stimulating and useful book." --<i>Gilbert Achcar, School of Oriental and African Studies</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>David Landy </b>is a lecturer in sociology and the director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of <i>Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel</i> (Zed 2011). <p/><b>Ronit Lentin</b> is a retired associate professor of sociology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her other books include <i>Thinking Palestine </i>(Zed 2008), <i>Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba</i> (2010), and <i>Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing the Israeli Settler Colonialism</i> (2018). <p/><b>Conor McCarthy</b> is a lecturer in the School of English at Maynooth University, Ireland. His other books include <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said</i> (2010) and <i>The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly</i> (2016).<br>David Landy is a lecturer in sociology and the director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity and Conflict at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of <i>Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel</i> (Zed 2011). <p/>Ronit Lentin is a retired associate professor of sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Her other books include <i>Thinking Palestine </i>(Zed 2008), <i>Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba</i> (2010), and <i>Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing the Israeli Settler Colonialism</i> (2018). <p/>Conor McCarthy is a lecturer in the School of English at Maynooth University. His other books include <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said</i> (2010) and <i>The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist Writings of James Connolly</i> (2016).</p>
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