Academic Mobility as Freedom in Africa
Academic Mobility as Freedom in Africa
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DOI：
10.1080/02589346.2020.1840023
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
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1.2
通讯作者：
Laakso, Liisa
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作者：
Laakso, Liisa
在这篇文章中，学术流动性和自由之间的关系的复杂性在非洲表现出高水平的流动性，但实现学术自由的挫折进行了讨论。自由的消极、积极和认识层面之间的区别有助于我们分析学术流动的条件，也有助于我们分析流动如何损害自由。对博茨瓦纳、喀麦隆和津巴布韦主要国立大学的社会和政治学学者进行的半结构化访谈代表了不同的政治发展经验，访谈表明，允许学者流动的国际联系对其工作至关重要，使他们能够发挥关键作用，但并不能保证体面的工作条件或支持课程的非殖民化。缺乏联系会增加自我审查。然而，非本国学者的处境可能特别脆弱。关键专业知识的空间不仅受到国家政治和大学物质条件的影响，而且还受到高等教育和研究国际化的影响。这就是为什么学术自由的所有方面都应该在国际合作中得到保护。
In this article, complexities in the relationship between academic mobility and freedom evident in Africa showing high levels of mobility but frustrations with the realisation of academic freedom are discussed. A distinction between negative, positive and epistemic dimensions of freedom helps us to analyse conditions for academic mobility but also how mobility can compromise freedom. Semi-structured interviews of scholars of social and political sciences at the main national universities in Botswana, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, representing different experiences of political developments, show that international connections allowing academics to move are crucial for their work and enable them to be critical, but do not guarantee decent working conditions or support for decolonisation of the curricula. Lack of connections increase self-censorship. Yet the situation of non-national academics can be particularly vulnerable. The space available for critical expertise is not only affected by national politics and material conditions of universities, but also by the internationalisation of higher education and research. That is why all dimensions of academic freedom should be protected within international co-operation.