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urn:uuid:ca550949-164c-4c3a-8532-62c1d5fb1656 03 15 9781805114079 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Being in Shadow and Light Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education 1 B01 Dina Zoe Belluigi Dina Zoe Belluigi is Professor of Authorship, Representation and Transformation in Academia and a Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland). She is a Visiting Professor at the Chair for the Critical Studies of Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University (South Africa). Her scholarship and practice revolve around comprehending oppression and inequalities within, and by, the university, and the ways in which these are negotiated by intellectuals (specifically academics and artists) of the Majority World. She is fortunate to have learnt from collaborations—particularly in South Africa, India and Northern Ireland—utilising a range of research methodologies, including the creative arts. She was also fortunate to have her intellectual formation—as an academic and artist—informed by commitments to transformative justice prevalent in post-Apartheid South Africa. Dina serves in editorial roles of journals and councils of learned societies in Higher Education Studies, the Social Sciences and Humanities, and Creative Arts Education. She contributes to the work of the Scholars at Risk Ireland Committee, as she did the Council for At-Risk Academics (UK) Syrian programme. She is co-editor of Emancipatory Imaginations: Advancing Critical University Studies (African Sun Media, 2024 [in press]). 01 eng 00 372 03 23 Academia in conflict 10 EDU015000 23 Education 12 JNM 04 LC72 23 Academic identity 10 EDU034000 12 JNF 23 Politics and Sociology 12 NHTX 23 Political violence and education 10 SOC051000 23 Academic freedom 12 GTU 10 SOC066000 12 JBS 10 POL034000 23 Post-conflict reconstruction 23 Higher education and social change 10 HIS054000 12 JBFG 01 06 03 00 Academia and its citizens, during periods of political violence and social conflict, are often overlooked. When attention is given, the focus tends to be on student activism, access to higher education, or curriculum development. The experiences of academics affected by conflict remain under-researched, despite the crucial role they play as educators and in generating, documenting, preserving and challenging knowledges. This is particularly concerning given that academics have−and continue to be−at risk as targets of sanction, persecution and oppression.This edited volume seeks to address this gap by exploring, and evoking, the complexities of academic subjectivity, place and practice in contexts where intellectual and state authority are contested or in transition. It features contributions by academics, artists and memory activists who have stepped bravely outside of the parameters of their disciplines, with modes of enquiry and representation that include conversations, vignettes and case studies, critical ethnographies, oral life histories, interviews, poetry and collage. Within the ten chapters are consideration of conflicts within Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, England, Mexico, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Palestine, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syria and Venezuela. Being in Shadow and Light encourages a deeper understanding of academics’ navigation of these difficult conditions. The authors’ insider-outsider positioning brings forth the richness of ways through dilemmas−of omission, trauma, displacement, inheritance, injustice, distortion, desire. Grounding the many social, cultural, economic, and epistemic politics within academia, troubles the enclosure of ‘conflict’ in politics at the grand level, as if only within the realm of interest for state and international actors. Against sanitising the uncertainties and particularities of being an academic figure, the authors reflect on the states and sites of conflict as spaces which shape living. This work is a call to recognize, document and study the often-overlooked subjectivities and contributions of academics thinking and practicing within societies undergoing conflict(s) and in their aftermath. As such, it will be of interest to academics, students and staff working within universities, as well audiences interested in intellectuals and institutions in contexts undergoing change. 04 00 About the Editor and Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction: Evoking What It Is to Be in Shadow and Light PART I: PAST CONFLICTS AND THEIR LEGACIES 1. Truth and Reparations: A Conversation on the Participation of the Higher Education Sector in the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-repetition2. The Whiteboard: Reflections on a Personal Archive of Apartheid-era Items from the Security Police of a University Town 3. Academics of Post-war Sri Lanka: Traces of Experiences and Impact 4. Being a Woman and a Researcher between Exile and Social Reconfiguration: An Interview with Hebe Vessuri 5. Hidden Legacies of the Troubles: Post-conflict Pedagogy as Resistance in Northern Irish Medical Education PART II: CONFLICTS IN THE PRESENT 6. ‘A Virtual Target Painted on my Back…’: Contested Constitutionalism in a Post-conflict Society 7. (Her)story between Shadow and Light: A Displaced Syrian Woman Academic 8. Home and Abroad: Exploring my Lived Experiences through Poetry and Narrative 9. The Lone Voice in the Academic Wilderness: Nigerian Academics’ Experiences in Industrial Conflicts 10. The Conflict of the Faculties, Again List of Illustrations Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20250106 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805114048 06 15 9781805114055 06 15 9781805114062 06 15 9781805114086 06 15 9781805114079 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD