Vera Axyonova, Florian Kohstall, Carola Richter (eds.), “Academics in Exile: Networks, Knowledge Exchange and New Forms of Internationalization”

Restrictions on academic freedom, persecution and armed conflict have forced many scholars into exile. So far, the professional trajectories of these scholars and their contributions to knowledge exchange have not been studied comprehensively. The contributors to this volume address the situations and networks of scholars in exile, the challenges they face in their host countries and the opportunities they use. These issues are highly relevant to discussions about the moral economies of higher education institutions and support programs. Although the contributions largely focus on Germany as a host country, they also offer telling examples of forced mobility in the Global South, including both contemporary and historical perspectives.

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Overview Chapters

    Frontmatter

    Contents

    Acknowledgements

    Academics in Exile

    Histories of knowledge translation

    Exile in a translational mode

    Redefining precarity through knowledge production

    The politics of forced internationalization

    The moral economies of “research in exile”

    Blessing or curse?

    Scholars in exile in the Netherlands

    The emergence of a “third space”?

    Critical scholars from Turkey

    Networks matter

    Towards structural responses to the displacement of scholars

    South-South perspectives

    Expelling and receiving scholars

    The unheard voices

    Academic freedom and the untold story of Venezuelan scholars under pressure

    List of contributors

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28 June 2022, 278 pages

ISBN: 978-3-8376-6089-0

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