Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility after 9/11: A Handbook for Scholars and Teachers
Task force on Middle East Anthropology
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"This handbook provides university teachers tools with which to manage teaching and research confrontations that limit the range of academic discourse. It seeks to provide concrete suggestions both to respond to such attacks and to help avoid them in the first place. Unlike productive scholarly debates, these attacks often exploit polarizing labels, employ the strategies of blacklists, and use illegitimate or illegal means of gathering evidence. This handbook also addresses prickly pedagogical situations in which students may be engaged in larger campaigns against faculty, or may be participating in class in a way that disrupts academic discussion..." (Back to academic freedom)