Revelations about the intersectional struggles for academic freedom within Indian Universities (SRHE)

Dina Zoe Belluigi; Nandita  Dhawan; Grace Idahosa

Revelations about the intersectional struggles for academic freedom within Indian Universities (SRHE)

Dina Zoe Belluigi^*, Nandita Dhawan, Grace Idahosa

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Recognising that the university is a site of struggle for democracy and justice, this paper prevents insider insights into academic citizenry within four Indian universities over 70 years after the country’s independence.

Drawing from data generated from academics within four Indian universities, we analysed responses that revealed the limits and possibilities of academic freedom as 'professional freedom' within teaching, research, community engagement, governance and administration.

Insights were gained into the politics of participation between academic citizens within this transforming sector. Intersectional analysis revealed varied experiences of identification, in addition to constraints to exercising power. Substantial differences in ‘being’ and ‘belonging’ in academic functions emerged in relation to academic position and social location.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2021
Event	Annual Conference of the Society for the Research of Higher Education: (Re)connecting, (Re)building: Higher Education in Transformative Times - virtual, online, United Kingdom Duration: 06 Dec 2021 → 10 Dec 2021

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Conference	Annual Conference of the Society for the Research of Higher Education: (Re)connecting, (Re)building: Higher Education in Transformative Times
Abbreviated title	SRHE 2021
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	virtual, online
Period	06/12/2021 → 10/12/2021

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‘Like king, like subject’? The conditions for transformative leadership in India and South Africaa
Belluigi, D. Z., Dhawan, N. B. & Idahosa, G.E.-O., 05 Dec 2022, Role of leaders in managing higher education. Sengupta, E. & Blessinger, P. (eds.). Bengley: Emerald Publishing, Vol. 48. p. 25-42 17 p.
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Academic citizenship and the (im)possible imaginaries of social justice: higher education in India and South Africa (SRHE)
Dhawan, N., Belluigi, D. Z. & Idahosa, G., 10 Dec 2021.
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Disrupting the ‘new middle class’ space of Indian public universities
Dhawan, N., Belluigi, D. Z. & Idahosa, G., 03 Apr 2021, (Unpublished).
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2021. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Society for the Research of Higher Education: (Re)connecting, (Re)building: Higher Education in Transformative Times, virtual, online, United Kingdom.

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‘Like king, like subject’? The conditions for transformative leadership in India and South Africaa

Academic citizenship and the (im)possible imaginaries of social justice: higher education in India and South Africa (SRHE)

Disrupting the ‘new middle class’ space of Indian public universities

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