Surviving ‘Emergency Politics’ in the Turkish Higher Education Battlescape By: Lakshmi Bose In late 2019, I sat with four young female student activists in the Feminist Club’s main room in Bogazici University discussing the precarious state of the young Leftist in contemporary Turkey. According to them, Bogazici was still a safe place – what Turam…
Colonial Structures of Knowledge Making: The Micropolitics of Epistemic Conflict in the University of Cape Town By: Lakshmi Bose In 2015, a student movement called #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) erupted at the University of Cape Town (UCT) which both exposed and demanded the end of the material and epistemic legacies of colonialism in contemporary South Africa. This…
‘Academic Fantasies’, ‘Lines of Interiority’ and the Rituals of Student Politics By: Lakshmi Bose, Jo-Anne Dillabough, Elizabeth Maber The landscape of Hungarian Higher Education (HE) over the last decade represents a battlescape over populist ideals (see the Democracy Institute, 2022) and a strategically designed conservative push towards more patriotic forms of HE, signposting Victor Orban’s…
Gendered Authoritarianisms: Exploring potential solidarities in the battle for gender studies By Dr. Elizabeth Maber Contestations over the understandings, and even the use, of the term ‘gender’ have become a familiar trigger for mobilising anti-liberal popular discourse. Gender has always been political and gender norms strongly aligned to the expectations of the state from its…