{"title":"The idea of a university and the invention of culture in colonial/postcolonial India","authors":"Mosarrap Hossain Khan","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127468139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The provocations of the public university in contemporary India *","authors":"Janaki Nair","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121095765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In search of a scientific public sphere","authors":"S. Mahajan","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126699264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic freedom and the ownership of knowledge","authors":"Lawrence Liang","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133225372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The crisis of the public university","authors":"S. Chaudhuri","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129950324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scientific research productivity in the Indian university sector","authors":"D. Saikia, R. Robinson","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130232352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429441974-10
Debaditya Bhattacharya
{"title":"Between disciplines and interdisciplines","authors":"Debaditya Bhattacharya","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126192395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ed from life 8 . . . and the spiritual education, which the students had, was a part of the spiritual life itself which comprehended all life. . . . Such an institution must group round it all the neighbouring villages and virtually unite them with itself in all its economic endeavours. . . . In a word, it should never be like a meteor – only a stray fragment of a world – but a complete world in itself, self-sustaining, independent, rich with ever renewing life, radiating light across space and time, attracting and maintaining round it a planetary system of dependent bodies, imparting life-breadth to the complete [hu]man, who is intellectual as well as economic, bound by social bonds [not the “greed of profi t”] and aspiring towards spiritual freedom. ( Tagore 2011 : 160) The nascent idea of Development Practice ( not Development Studies), which at present has taken the form of an ‘immersion’ 9 and ‘action research’-based M.Phil programme 10 at Ambedkar University, Delhi, tries to make two moves with respect to the discussion above. One, it tries to inaugurate in the “beehive” of the human sciences the foreclosed question of praxis, praxis as the “alluring call to a slave revolt” against university in particular and education in general. Two, it also tries to engage creatively with what Lacan designates as the register of the ‘slave’, or the register of what could be called the ‘subaltern’; engage with the slave’s knowledge-praxis, as also work with the slave (and not on the slave) for a transformed future. Needless to reiterate, it is diffi cult to fi nd a home for such an idea – an idea that draws heavily from Tagore’s turn to Sriniketan, which in turn is a turn to (transformative) praxis and the rural life-world – in the standard imagination of the university. The question that thus haunts the idea of Development Practice is not just whether one is political or not, which has now become the paradigmatic caliper in the human sciences. The question is whether one is engaged in transformative praxis. How, however, does one distinguish between ‘being political’ and ‘being engaged in transformative praxis’? How does one distinguish between ‘interpreting the world’ and ‘transforming the world’ (questions of transformation, however, require an immediate attention to questions of ethics, justice and even 15040-2010d-1pass-r02.indd 154 7/16/2018 12:48:35 PM A parrot’s training? 155 well-being)? One way, one demonstrative way, of distinguishing the two would be in terms of the distinction between anti-capitalism and post-capitalism. Anti-capitalism is Sangharsh ; it is about questioning surplus appropriation by non-performers. Post-capitalism is Nirmaan ; it is about creating sharing commons. Universities in their radical imagination have been contexts for anti-capitalist critique ; could they also become sites for post-capitalist praxis (see Gibson-Graham 2006 )? Universities in their radical moments have produced critiques of primitive accumulation; c
{"title":"What if the university is a parrot’s training?","authors":"Anup K. Dhar","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-8","url":null,"abstract":"ed from life 8 . . . and the spiritual education, which the students had, was a part of the spiritual life itself which comprehended all life. . . . Such an institution must group round it all the neighbouring villages and virtually unite them with itself in all its economic endeavours. . . . In a word, it should never be like a meteor – only a stray fragment of a world – but a complete world in itself, self-sustaining, independent, rich with ever renewing life, radiating light across space and time, attracting and maintaining round it a planetary system of dependent bodies, imparting life-breadth to the complete [hu]man, who is intellectual as well as economic, bound by social bonds [not the “greed of profi t”] and aspiring towards spiritual freedom. ( Tagore 2011 : 160) The nascent idea of Development Practice ( not Development Studies), which at present has taken the form of an ‘immersion’ 9 and ‘action research’-based M.Phil programme 10 at Ambedkar University, Delhi, tries to make two moves with respect to the discussion above. One, it tries to inaugurate in the “beehive” of the human sciences the foreclosed question of praxis, praxis as the “alluring call to a slave revolt” against university in particular and education in general. Two, it also tries to engage creatively with what Lacan designates as the register of the ‘slave’, or the register of what could be called the ‘subaltern’; engage with the slave’s knowledge-praxis, as also work with the slave (and not on the slave) for a transformed future. Needless to reiterate, it is diffi cult to fi nd a home for such an idea – an idea that draws heavily from Tagore’s turn to Sriniketan, which in turn is a turn to (transformative) praxis and the rural life-world – in the standard imagination of the university. The question that thus haunts the idea of Development Practice is not just whether one is political or not, which has now become the paradigmatic caliper in the human sciences. The question is whether one is engaged in transformative praxis. How, however, does one distinguish between ‘being political’ and ‘being engaged in transformative praxis’? How does one distinguish between ‘interpreting the world’ and ‘transforming the world’ (questions of transformation, however, require an immediate attention to questions of ethics, justice and even 15040-2010d-1pass-r02.indd 154 7/16/2018 12:48:35 PM A parrot’s training? 155 well-being)? One way, one demonstrative way, of distinguishing the two would be in terms of the distinction between anti-capitalism and post-capitalism. Anti-capitalism is Sangharsh ; it is about questioning surplus appropriation by non-performers. Post-capitalism is Nirmaan ; it is about creating sharing commons. Universities in their radical imagination have been contexts for anti-capitalist critique ; could they also become sites for post-capitalist praxis (see Gibson-Graham 2006 )? Universities in their radical moments have produced critiques of primitive accumulation; c","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124167635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429441974-12
Henry A. Giroux
{"title":"Neoliberal savagery and the assault on higher education as a democratic public sphere","authors":"Henry A. Giroux","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128459717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-03DOI: 10.4324/9780429441974-13
A. Sitas
{"title":"The university in question","authors":"A. Sitas","doi":"10.4324/9780429441974-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441974-13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":120136,"journal":{"name":"The University Unthought","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133704475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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