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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 5d

The steps taken by academic associations, and a #HigherEd institute to hold State officials to account abt treatment of migrant academic citizens, within the frame of a Constitution, is extraordinary:

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Opinion

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Scholars at Risk @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social · 7d

SAR’s #Free2Think2025 report is here! As violent threats to #highered in authoritarian contexts persist, recent years have seen increases in attacks on historically liberal contexts—incl. in the #UnitedStates. Read the report’s pressing findings now: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...

Free to Think 2025 | Scholars at Risk

Free to Think 2025 is the eleventh installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 395 attacks on higher education communities around the world.

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 7d

Free to Think - the annual report on Scholars at Risk - has been published today for 2024-5.

See www.scholarsatrisk.org/free-to-thin...

@scholarsatrisk.bsky.social #HigherEducation #CriticalUniversityStuides #AcademicFreedom

Free to Think | Scholars at Risk

Free to Think is an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. The reports explore concerning trends in attacks on higher education communities around the world with the ...

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Scholars at Risk @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social · 9d

Scholars at Risk is now active on Bluesky! SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals working to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Keep an eye out for our upcoming #Free2Think2025 report, documenting global attacks on #highered! Learn more: scholarsatrisk.org

Scholars at Risk | Protecting scholars and the freedom to think, question, and share ideas

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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 8d

🆓 Free chapter for a limited-time: Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force by Dina Zoe Belluigi: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 10d

If you have the funding/ library licence, find the publisher's version here doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Part of 'Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets: Elgar Handbooks in Education' by Glenda Strachan
#CriticalUniversityStudies

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 10d

'Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force'

Pre-print finally accessible: pure.qub.ac.uk/files/612944...

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks so much. The doi to the original article does not seem to be working. Can you repaste please or DM?

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 23d

Niv & Vanshika Gupta produced this anthology of stories, reinterpreted from the oral life histories of socially marginalised, critical academics in the Indian academy.

📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 27d

Honoured to be in this book with many incredible Indian feminist scholars, and in a section looking at the university in particular, amoungst:

Anagha Tambe
Swati Dyahadroy
Grace Ese-Osa Idahosa
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan
Shirley Anne Tate

www.routledge.com/Gendered-Bod...

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Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · Oct 4

Appreciated the opportunity to contribute to this significant new edited collection.

Thank you to Prof Dina Belluigi for support, encouragement and the chance to share reflections on the experience of working on post-Brexit constitutional change here.

www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

6. "A Virtual Target Painted on my Back ..."
Contested Constitutionalism in a Post-Conflict Society
Colin Harvey

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 28d

🫶 to the CLTD ( Gerrit, Fatima, Najma) for inviting me, after having read the 📖 'Why decolonising “knowledge” matters: Deliberations for educators on that made fragile'. In 'Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures' @openbookpublish.bsky.social doi.org/10.11647/obp...

5. Why decolonising “knowledge” matters: Deliberations for educators on that made fragile

This chapter grapples with the question of why decolonising ‘knowledge’ matters for teaching and learning. It shares a selection of important considerations at this point in time. It draws inter-textu...

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 28d

Tough important questions & comments following my invited talk today, as part of the Wits University's commemoration of the #Fallist movements' calls, incl #decolonisation of the university

🙏 to Siphiwe Dube of the Wits Dept of Politics (pict) for introducing me & raising questions abt backlash

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 28d

Important projects looking at resistance in universities in the past; from which to learn.

Out yesterday:

'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed

ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz...

#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance

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Colin Harvey @cjharvey1.bsky.social · Jan 6

Being in Shadow and Light
Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education @dzbelluigi.bsky.social
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Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education

Academia and its citizens, during periods of political violence and social conflict, are often overlooked. When attention is given, the focus tends to be on student activism, access to higher educatio...

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · Sep 7

A celebration of the national and international research collaborations which have evolved from the School of #WomensStudies of Jadavpur University.

Looking so forward to getting a copy of this book!

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · Sep 2

For an insight into the complicated questions being asked about "Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?”, in a guest post on the current attacks by the state on public #HigherEd in the USA, by Sean L. Malloy

utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?” (Guest Post)

Paris on September 1, 2016 By Sean L. Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), University of California...

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · Aug 19

New publication alert! 🚨

Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence

Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence by Erika Jiménez, Author 1 and Author 2. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · Aug 20

A pleasure to reflect with the formidable Prof Takyiwaa Manuh recently on the state of the world, rights, international law, universities, & (academic) freedom & resistance.

See her foreward to 'Being in Shadow & Light' here doi.org/10.11647/obp...

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · Jul 28

Reminding me of this proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide • Protean Magazine

Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, w...

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · Jul 18

Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 28: 'Today’s problems do not reflect a failure to introduce market thinking but the effects of its long-term presence.’ (Christopher Newfield (2016): The Great Mistake, p.4)

Book cover of The Great Mistake by Christopher Newfield.

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Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social · Jun 16

A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: reconceptualising Boyer scholarship
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A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: Reconceptualising Boyer scholarship

Reporting on scholarly activity can be problematic for those working in higher education and can feel almost impossible for creative arts academics and administrators. Few current studies explore s...

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Jack Crangle @jcrangle.bsky.social · Jul 1

Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.

www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...

Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism.

Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.

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Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social · Jun 26

It would be decent if they didn't cancel everybody at midday the day they retire or leave. Academia is a community that exists beyond the walls of institutions. People have allegiances that reflect that. This reveals the gulf in understanding between management and academics.

Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social · Jun 26

Professor denied Emeritus status by Cardiff Uni.
“I regard it as a new form of ‘cancellation’ of academics in universities prepared to speak out against the prevailing culture of managerialism. Managerialism is destroying Britain’s universities, and needs to be opposed.“
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Cardiff University academic who objected to cuts robbed of title through 'spite'

Martin Shipton A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been “spitefully” denied a status often given to retired professors. James Whitle...

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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · Apr 17

How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies
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The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research

Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...

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