Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research
| dc.contributor.author | Stolp, Mareli | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-17T10:37:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-17T10:37:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article discusses a case study to explore notions of academic freedom and freedom of speech in the post-apartheid South African university. The focus is on the ‘managerial turn’ in university management and in particular its utilisation of ethical regulation in humanities research. I argue that, in the case in question, managerial power mechanisms co-opted ethics into processes of censure and censorship. Ethical regulation in the humanities has been on the increase in South Africa and internationally in recent decades; I posit here that ethical regulation can be used as a managerial power mechanism in the control of research output. This has significant implications especially in the context of post-apartheid transformation of South African universities. I further posit that emergent and risk-taking research open up new spaces for exploration and investigation, and that the benefits of this kind of research must be balanced against possible ethical complexities. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Stolp, M. (2016). Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research. Acta Academica, 48(1), 1-26. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0587-2405 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2415-0479 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11660/5339 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/0587-2405/aa48i1.1 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Free State | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Report to the academy: power and ethics in humanities research | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |