The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

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The Imperial University brings together scholars to explore the policing of knowledge by explicitly linking the academy to the broader politics of militarism, racism, nationalism, and neoliberalism that define the contemporary imperial state. Based on multidisciplinary research, autobiographical accounts, and even performance scripts, this urgent analysis offers sobering insights into varied manifestations of "the imperial university."

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"The public space of higher education is under siege. The Imperial University interrogates in brilliant detail the nature of such attacks and the hidden structures of power and politics that define them. But it does more in providing a passionate call to rethink higher education part of a future in which learning is linked to social change. A crucial book for anyone who imagines the university as both an essential public sphere and an index of what a democracy should be."Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University

"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Mairas The Imperial University charts the many ways that institutions of higher education fail to meet the needs of students and the teachers who instruct them. Its a wonderful, stimulating and anger-inducing book."Truthout

"No book indexes the political brutalism that often hounds academic settings these days so intimately and nerve-rackingly as this one. This is, far and away, the most affecting, comprehensive, and visionary collection of essays published to date on the politics of contemporary higher education."Academe

"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira provide an invaluable collection of scholarship on the transformation of the University into an apparatus of empire and the U.S. War on Terror."American Studies Journal

"A thoughtfully and often passionately crafted volume that problematized issues of academic-militaristic collusion, American exceptionalism, academic freedom, and in many cases, expulsion from the ivory tower."Journal for Peace and Justice Studies

"A provocative interrogation."Journal of American History

"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira take great care to bring the battles on university campuses home to readers with great immediacy and in their full connection to warfare, militarism, racism, the politics of nationalism, and neoliberal versions of imperial violence."American Quarterly

Author Bio

Piya Chatterjee is Backstrand Chair and professor of feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Scripps College. She is the author of A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation and coeditor of States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia.

Sunaina Maira is professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11.