Normatizing State Power: Uncritical Ethical Praxis and Zionism

Authors

Steven Salaita, The American University in Cairo AUCFollow

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Department

English & Comparative Literature Department

Abstract

I do not believe that the production of research should be democratic, but its dissemination should not be so patently undemocratic. We need to think more about how the work we do as scholars coheres with the struggles of projustice advocates in all social and economic strata. I don’t have all the answers to these propositions, but I do know that on the cusp of promotion to associate professor, I’ve learned a few things about scholarship: if it claims to be objective, then it’s lying to you. And if it’s not political, then it doesn’t exist.

Publication Date

4-30-2014

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

Editors

Piya Chatterjee, Sunaina Maira

ISBN

9780816680900

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

City

Minneapolis

First Page

217

Last Page

236

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APA Citation

Salaita, S. (2014). Normatizing State Power: Uncritical Ethical Praxis and Zionism. In Piya Chatterjee, Sunaina Maira (Eds.), The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (pp. 217-236). University of Minnesota Press.

MLA Citation

Salaita, Steven. "Normatizing State Power: Uncritical Ethical Praxis and Zionism." The Imperial University Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, edited by Piya Chatterjee, Sunaina Maira, University of Minnesota Press, 2014. pp. 217-236