Some reflections on the Dissident Academy
Text of a Talk given to the Social Sciences faculty of Melbourne University November 2018
INTRODUCTION : WHERE WE ARE NOW AND HOW WE GOT HERE
The recent decision by the Federal minister for education to block a number of major grants for research in the arts and humanities has been greeted with howls of outrage from what remains of the Dissident Academy in Australia and a smug silence by those university authorities who are grateful to the politicians for doing their dirty work for them.… Read the rest