Free space in the academy
- Title
- Free space in the academy
- Creator
- Janz, Bruce B
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Professor Janz challenges the "pieties" often associated with academic freedom, moving beyond the legal definitions found in the South African Constitution. He introduces the concept of "free space" as a necessary condition for genuine intellectual growth and "epistemic justice." The lecture explores how internal institutional cultures, social identities, and power dynamics can create "little murders of the soul" that stifle inquiry even when formal academic freedom is protected by law.
- Subject
- Academic freedom—South Africa
- Janz, Bruce B.
- Education, Higher—Philosophy
- Social justice
- Identity politics
- Freedom of speech—South Africa
- Epistemology
- Format
- Public Lecture
- Language
- English
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/848
- Archive
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University
- Extent
- 27 leaves
- Use/re-use
- Academic Freedom -- South Africa Universities and colleges -- South Africa Equality Liberty Education and state -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Is Part Of
- D.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lecture 2015
- Item sets
- Daantjie Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures
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