The Free Speech Union has a problem with, you guessed it, Free Speech! In its latest round of performing victimhood (white, male, heteronormative, cisnormative), the Free Speech Union (FSU) tells us that it is triggered by Te Kungenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University offering its academics the choice of using Toitū te Tiriti (meaning “honor the Treaty”) in an electronic email signature. In this opinion piece, I will argue that this attack on the university is part of a broader ideological project of the FSU that seeks to concoct a crisis around the university, simultaneously mobilising around the ideologically-driven organised attack of the far-right targeting of Te Tiriti we are currently witnessing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This concoction of the crisis of the academy and the crisis of democracy is central to how the FSU seeks to reorganise universities and democracy in Aotearoa to align them with its broader far-right agenda. This project of reworking universities is evi...
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.