Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’

Amsler, Sarah

Abstract

This article presents a report on the international conference ‘Beyond University: Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’, organised by the Kocaeli Dayanışma Akademisi (Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity) in Kocaeli, Turkey on 30-31 March 2018. At the time of writing, its organisers and many of their colleagues and students remain dismissed from their university positions and under threat of state violence and repression. They are also, however, active in organising autonomous higher education courses and research in the interest of advancing intellectual, social and ecological emancipation in Turkey and beyond. This work is important not only within Turkey, but also for ongoing transnational debates about the geography and nature of struggles for a liberatory higher education, as well as the radical imagination of what else the university is and can be.

Citation

Amsler, S. (2018). Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 16(2), 775-781. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1042

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 4, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jul 26, 2018
• Publication Date: Jul 26, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 2, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 3, 2018
• Journal: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
• Electronic ISSN: 1726-670X
• Publisher: TripleC
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 775-781
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1042
• Keywords: academic labour, Academics for Peace, alternative academy, university politics
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/896477
• Publisher URL: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1042