Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This study introduces intellectual solidarity and reflexive dislocation as ethical responses to academic challenges in authoritarian environments. These methods address institutional complicities and constraints faced by scholars today.
Area Of Science
- Sociology
- Ethics in Scholarship
- Academic Freedom
Background
- The rise of authoritarianism and institutional erosion challenges critical scholarship.
- Universities, often seen as refuges, can embed authoritarian logics through marketization, surveillance, and epistemic austerity.
- Existing reflexivity in scholarship is insufficient to address current ethical dilemmas.
Purpose Of The Study
- To introduce intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance.
- To present reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice.
- To offer grounded responses to the complicities and constraints within contemporary academic life.
Main Methods
- Drawing on personal experiences of academic migration (Philippines, US to Germany, Netherlands).
- Analyzing authoritarian logics embedded within academic institutions.
- Engaging with critical traditions of engaged scholarship.
Main Results
- Authoritarian logics manifest through marketization, surveillance governance, and epistemic austerity within universities.
- Intellectual solidarity and reflexive dislocation provide tools for navigating academic complicities.
- Sustaining sociology's relevance requires epistemic humility, public accountability, and institutional courage.
Conclusions
- Intellectual solidarity and reflexive dislocation are provisional tools for ethical scholarship during systemic crises.
- A renewed public vocation for the social sciences is necessary.
- Scholars must commit to humility, accountability, and courage to maintain relevance.
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