Authoritarian U
Florida as the Testing Ground for the Future of U.S. Higher Education
Authoritarian U
Florida as the Testing Ground for the Future of U.S. Higher Education
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Description
This book is a collection of incisive essays and detailed case studies from faculty struggling against right-wing ideological impositions on research and teaching in Florida, offering valuable lessons for thinking-through, and acting against, the attack on universities in the US and internationally.
Florida leads the way as a testing ground for a broad program of right-wing interventions into higher education, interventions that threaten to push universities across the US towards authoritarianism. The contributions collected here offer historicization, theorization and practical strategies of immediate relevance to the movement to defend colleges and universities from the Trump administration.
With a preface from renowned theorist of education and public intellectual, Henry Giroux, Authoritarian U examines the current juncture from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and shows how faculty are opposing restrictive legislation in their capacity as teachers, researchers and union organizers. Areas of focus include the following issues: university takeovers by ideologically-motivated and politically appointed trustees, privatization, post-tenure review, DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] funding, “intellectual diversity,” shielding, class recordings without consent, bans on intellectual partnerships with people from “countries of concern,” student protests and student organizational suspensions, secrecy in presidential searches, unions and collective bargaining, race, LGBTQIA+, “gender ideology,” climate science suppression, guns on campus, censorship of curriculum through course reviews and cuts in general education, self-censorship, department closings, keyword searches, identity politics, “cultural Marxism,” critical theory, critical race theory, and the distortion of historical truths.
If you want to understand the threat of authoritarianism to contemporary US higher education, this is an essential book to read.
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Table of Contents
By Henry Giroux
Introduction
By Robin Truth Goodman and Jordan Walter Scott
Curriculum and Control
Chapter 1. The Memory Police: Florida Senate Bill 266's Authoritarian Power, Void-for-Vagueness
By Robin Truth Goodman
Chapter 2. The Fight to Keep 'Gender and Climate Change' at Florida Atlantic
By Nicole Morse and Daniella Orias
Chapter 3. Palestine and the Necropolitical University
By Malini Johar Schueller
Chapter 4. Won't Back Down': The Fight for DEI Programs and Academic Freedom in Florida
By Sharon D. Wright Austin, Vincent Edward Oluwole Adejumo, and Tarini Panidepu
Chapter 5. Discipline vs. Disciplining: Florida's State-Manufactured Sociology Textbook and the Epstemic Corruption of the Social Sciences
By Evan W. Lauteria
History
Chapter 6. Knowable, Teachable, and Testable,' History as Culture Wars in Florida
By Robert Cassanello
Chapter 7. Red Threads: McCarthyism and the Contemporary Assault on the Campus
By Susan Hegeman
Chapter 8. Don't Say Racism: The Legislative Assault on Social Capital at Florida's HBCUs
By Bruce W. Strouble Jr.
Chapter 9. The State Was Always Here: Authoritarianism, Audit Culture, and the Myth of University Independence
By Daniel B. Saunders and Eric J. Scarffe
Chapter 10. Degrees of Control: Tracing the Authoritarian Thread from Hungary to Florida's Universities
By Tessa Barber
Pedagogy and Resistance
Chapter 11. Less than General Education: Florida's Illiberal Quest to Restrict Student Choice and Politicize the Great Books in the Name of Western Civilization
By Nova Myhill and Christopher Noble
Chapter 12. What is the Current Relevance of this Music? Inviting Our Students to Freely Discuss (Even Censored) Topics
By Michael Buchler
Chapter 13. Authoritarian Policy and the Regulation of Academic Selves
By Andre Ivey
Chapter 14. Catch Phrases: Bad-Faith Semantics in the Regulation of Higher Education
By Will Hanley
Organizing
Chapter 15. A Crisis in Representation: Battles over Culture and Common Sense in Florida Public Higher Education
By Chris Robé
Chapter 16. Your Daughter Deserves a College Education: On Saving Sociology (and Society!) from the Fundamentalist Ultranationalist Right
By Katie Rainwater
Chapter 17. Conflict on the Ground: The Case of New College of Florida
By Sarah Hernandez
Chapter 18. Florida's Path to Muffling the Voices of Workers at Public Colleges and Universities
By Jordan Walter Scott
Index
Product details
| Published | 18 Mar 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781350599147 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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