Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research
This article discusses a case study to explore notions of academic freedom and freedom of speech in the post-apartheid South African university. The focus is on the ‘managerial turn’ in university management and in particular its utilisation of ethical regulation in humanities research. I argue tha...
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University of the Free State
2016-01-01
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This article discusses a case study to explore notions of academic freedom and freedom of speech in the post-apartheid South African university. The focus is on the ‘managerial turn’ in university management and in particular its utilisation of ethical regulation in humanities research. I argue that, in the case in question, managerial power mechanisms co-opted ethics into processes of censure and censorship. Ethical regulation in the humanities has been on the increase in South Africa and internationally in recent decades; I posit here that ethical regulation can be used as a
managerial power mechanism in the control of research output. This has significant implications especially in the context of post-apartheid transformation of South African universities. I further posit that emergent and risk-taking research open up new spaces for exploration and investigation, and that the benefits of this kind of research must be balanced against possible ethical complexities.
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| spelling | doaj.art-fe1fa882d326414db331944d6f7288c72024-03-11T23:03:47ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792016-01-01481Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities researchMareli Stolp0University of South Africa This article discusses a case study to explore notions of academic freedom and freedom of speech in the post-apartheid South African university. The focus is on the ‘managerial turn’ in university management and in particular its utilisation of ethical regulation in humanities research. I argue that, in the case in question, managerial power mechanisms co-opted ethics into processes of censure and censorship. Ethical regulation in the humanities has been on the increase in South Africa and internationally in recent decades; I posit here that ethical regulation can be used as a managerial power mechanism in the control of research output. This has significant implications especially in the context of post-apartheid transformation of South African universities. I further posit that emergent and risk-taking research open up new spaces for exploration and investigation, and that the benefits of this kind of research must be balanced against possible ethical complexities. http://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1502 |
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| title | Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research |
| title_full | Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research |
| title_short | Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research |
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