CGHE Webinar

Fighting for e/quality: Comparative ethnographies of new student movements

Date: Tuesday, 22 October 2024 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: Hybrid - Online and in Seminar Room E, Education Department. Registration required
Speaker(s):
  • Gritt Nielsen, Aarhus University

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In recent years, a growing number of students globally have strongly criticised their universities for re-producing problematic and discriminating hierarchies of knowledge and people. In different ways, they have mobilised to make higher education a more socially just space for all students. This has creatively opened up spaces for debates on the quality of public higher education towards questions of equality, decolonisation and marginalised ways of knowing. Based on comparative ethnographic studies at public universities in the USA, the UK, South Africa and Denmark, this research project aims to investigate the role and meaning of students’ claims and actions for a more socially just public university across different national and institutional contexts.

Through empirical insights into selected spaces of political and academic contestation in different countries, the research contributes to ongoing debates around how to balance values of equality and diversity with unfettered speech, and whether different criteria for knowledge production and critical debate could and should be promoted in different places. Grounded in social anthropology, it aims to develop a fine-grained conceptualisation of how knowledge and power are re-shaped through the interconnectivity of different spatialities (i.e. how places, activist networks and socio-spatial positionalities co-implicate each other in new ways).

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