Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi
@dzbelluigi.bsky.social
An academic in critical university studies, exploring authorship, representation & transformation against oppression.
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Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education
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 educatio...
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The steps taken by academic associations, and a #HigherEd institute to hold State officials to account abt treatment of migrant academic citizens, within the frame of a Constitution, is extraordinary:
knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...
knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...
Opinion
knightcolumbia.org
October 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The steps taken by academic associations, and a #HigherEd institute to hold State officials to account abt treatment of migrant academic citizens, within the frame of a Constitution, is extraordinary:
knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...
knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...
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SAR’s #Free2Think2025 report is here! As violent threats to #highered in authoritarian contexts persist, recent years have seen increases in attacks on historically liberal contexts—incl. in the #UnitedStates. Read the report’s pressing findings now: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
Free to Think 2025 | Scholars at Risk
Free to Think 2025 is the eleventh installment of an annual report by SAR’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, and analyzes 395 attacks on higher education communities around the world.
www.scholarsatrisk.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
SAR’s #Free2Think2025 report is here! As violent threats to #highered in authoritarian contexts persist, recent years have seen increases in attacks on historically liberal contexts—incl. in the #UnitedStates. Read the report’s pressing findings now: www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/fr...
Free to Think - the annual report on Scholars at Risk - has been published today for 2024-5.
See www.scholarsatrisk.org/free-to-thin...
@scholarsatrisk.bsky.social #HigherEducation #CriticalUniversityStuides #AcademicFreedom
See www.scholarsatrisk.org/free-to-thin...
@scholarsatrisk.bsky.social #HigherEducation #CriticalUniversityStuides #AcademicFreedom
Free to Think | Scholars at Risk
Free to Think is an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. The reports explore concerning trends in attacks on higher education communities around the world with the ...
www.scholarsatrisk.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Free to Think - the annual report on Scholars at Risk - has been published today for 2024-5.
See www.scholarsatrisk.org/free-to-thin...
@scholarsatrisk.bsky.social #HigherEducation #CriticalUniversityStuides #AcademicFreedom
See www.scholarsatrisk.org/free-to-thin...
@scholarsatrisk.bsky.social #HigherEducation #CriticalUniversityStuides #AcademicFreedom
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Scholars at Risk is now active on Bluesky! SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals working to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Keep an eye out for our upcoming #Free2Think2025 report, documenting global attacks on #highered! Learn more: scholarsatrisk.org
Scholars at Risk | Protecting scholars and the freedom to think, question, and share ideas
scholarsatrisk.org
September 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scholars at Risk is now active on Bluesky! SAR is an international network of institutions and individuals working to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. Keep an eye out for our upcoming #Free2Think2025 report, documenting global attacks on #highered! Learn more: scholarsatrisk.org
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🆓 Free chapter for a limited-time: Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force by Dina Zoe Belluigi: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
September 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🆓 Free chapter for a limited-time: Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force by Dina Zoe Belluigi: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
'Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force'
Pre-print finally accessible: pure.qub.ac.uk/files/612944...
Pre-print finally accessible: pure.qub.ac.uk/files/612944...
doi.org
September 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
'Transformative change in democratising academic employment? Shifts in South Africa’s academic labour and its racialised labour force'
Pre-print finally accessible: pure.qub.ac.uk/files/612944...
Pre-print finally accessible: pure.qub.ac.uk/files/612944...
Niv & Vanshika Gupta produced this anthology of stories, reinterpreted from the oral life histories of socially marginalised, critical academics in the Indian academy.
📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University
📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University
September 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Niv & Vanshika Gupta produced this anthology of stories, reinterpreted from the oral life histories of socially marginalised, critical academics in the Indian academy.
📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University
📖more here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
With Nandita Dhawan of the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University
Honoured to be in this book with many incredible Indian feminist scholars, and in a section looking at the university in particular, amoungst:
Anagha Tambe
Swati Dyahadroy
Grace Ese-Osa Idahosa
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan
Shirley Anne Tate
www.routledge.com/Gendered-Bod...
Anagha Tambe
Swati Dyahadroy
Grace Ese-Osa Idahosa
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan
Shirley Anne Tate
www.routledge.com/Gendered-Bod...
September 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Honoured to be in this book with many incredible Indian feminist scholars, and in a section looking at the university in particular, amoungst:
Anagha Tambe
Swati Dyahadroy
Grace Ese-Osa Idahosa
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan
Shirley Anne Tate
www.routledge.com/Gendered-Bod...
Anagha Tambe
Swati Dyahadroy
Grace Ese-Osa Idahosa
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan
Shirley Anne Tate
www.routledge.com/Gendered-Bod...
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Appreciated the opportunity to contribute to this significant new edited collection.
Thank you to Prof Dina Belluigi for support, encouragement and the chance to share reflections on the experience of working on post-Brexit constitutional change here.
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Thank you to Prof Dina Belluigi for support, encouragement and the chance to share reflections on the experience of working on post-Brexit constitutional change here.
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
October 4, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Appreciated the opportunity to contribute to this significant new edited collection.
Thank you to Prof Dina Belluigi for support, encouragement and the chance to share reflections on the experience of working on post-Brexit constitutional change here.
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Thank you to Prof Dina Belluigi for support, encouragement and the chance to share reflections on the experience of working on post-Brexit constitutional change here.
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Tough important questions & comments following my invited talk today, as part of the Wits University's commemoration of the #Fallist movements' calls, incl #decolonisation of the university
🙏 to Siphiwe Dube of the Wits Dept of Politics (pict) for introducing me & raising questions abt backlash
🙏 to Siphiwe Dube of the Wits Dept of Politics (pict) for introducing me & raising questions abt backlash
September 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Tough important questions & comments following my invited talk today, as part of the Wits University's commemoration of the #Fallist movements' calls, incl #decolonisation of the university
🙏 to Siphiwe Dube of the Wits Dept of Politics (pict) for introducing me & raising questions abt backlash
🙏 to Siphiwe Dube of the Wits Dept of Politics (pict) for introducing me & raising questions abt backlash
Important projects looking at resistance in universities in the past; from which to learn.
Out yesterday:
'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed
ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz...
#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance
Out yesterday:
'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed
ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz...
#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance
September 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Important projects looking at resistance in universities in the past; from which to learn.
Out yesterday:
'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed
ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz...
#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance
Out yesterday:
'University of Durban-Westville, 1961–2003: Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture' - ed. Badat & Vahed
ukznpress.co.za?class=bb_ukz...
#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Resistance
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Being in Shadow and Light
Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education @dzbelluigi.bsky.social
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education @dzbelluigi.bsky.social
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education
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 educatio...
www.openbookpublishers.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Being in Shadow and Light
Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education @dzbelluigi.bsky.social
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education @dzbelluigi.bsky.social
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
A celebration of the national and international research collaborations which have evolved from the School of #WomensStudies of Jadavpur University.
Looking so forward to getting a copy of this book!
Looking so forward to getting a copy of this book!
September 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A celebration of the national and international research collaborations which have evolved from the School of #WomensStudies of Jadavpur University.
Looking so forward to getting a copy of this book!
Looking so forward to getting a copy of this book!
For an insight into the complicated questions being asked about "Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?”, in a guest post on the current attacks by the state on public #HigherEd in the USA, by Sean L. Malloy
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?” (Guest Post)
Paris on September 1, 2016 By Sean L. Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES), University of California...
utotherescue.blogspot.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
For an insight into the complicated questions being asked about "Why Should We “Stand Up for the UC?”, in a guest post on the current attacks by the state on public #HigherEd in the USA, by Sean L. Malloy
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
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New publication alert! 🚨
Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence
Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine
Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence
Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine
August 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
New publication alert! 🚨
Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence
Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine
Criticality as refusal: counterstories of the occupied, (non)-collaboration, and resisting silence
Points of Departure paper by Erika Jiménez et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#HigherEducation #Criticality #Palestine
A pleasure to reflect with the formidable Prof Takyiwaa Manuh recently on the state of the world, rights, international law, universities, & (academic) freedom & resistance.
See her foreward to 'Being in Shadow & Light' here doi.org/10.11647/obp...
See her foreward to 'Being in Shadow & Light' here doi.org/10.11647/obp...
August 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A pleasure to reflect with the formidable Prof Takyiwaa Manuh recently on the state of the world, rights, international law, universities, & (academic) freedom & resistance.
See her foreward to 'Being in Shadow & Light' here doi.org/10.11647/obp...
See her foreward to 'Being in Shadow & Light' here doi.org/10.11647/obp...
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Reminding me of this proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide • Protean Magazine
Fargo Tbakhi writes with this reflective essay on the role and duty of writing in this time of a genocide. How do hegemonic prerogatives dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for us, w...
proteanmag.com
July 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Reminding me of this proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...
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Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 28: 'Today’s problems do not reflect a failure to introduce market thinking but the effects of its long-term presence.’ (Christopher Newfield (2016): The Great Mistake, p.4)
July 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Critical books about the state of #HigherEd, no. 28: 'Today’s problems do not reflect a failure to introduce market thinking but the effects of its long-term presence.’ (Christopher Newfield (2016): The Great Mistake, p.4)
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A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: reconceptualising Boyer scholarship
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: Reconceptualising Boyer scholarship
Reporting on scholarly activity can be problematic for those working in higher education and can feel almost impossible for creative arts academics and administrators. Few current studies explore s...
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June 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: reconceptualising Boyer scholarship
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism.
Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.
www.qub.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/Our...
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It would be decent if they didn't cancel everybody at midday the day they retire or leave. Academia is a community that exists beyond the walls of institutions. People have allegiances that reflect that. This reveals the gulf in understanding between management and academics.
Professor denied Emeritus status by Cardiff Uni.
“I regard it as a new form of ‘cancellation’ of academics in universities prepared to speak out against the prevailing culture of managerialism. Managerialism is destroying Britain’s universities, and needs to be opposed.“
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“I regard it as a new form of ‘cancellation’ of academics in universities prepared to speak out against the prevailing culture of managerialism. Managerialism is destroying Britain’s universities, and needs to be opposed.“
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Cardiff University academic who objected to cuts robbed of title through 'spite'
Martin Shipton A distinguished archaeologist and academic who publicly opposed Cardiff University’s cuts programme has been “spitefully” denied a status often given to retired professors. James Whitle...
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June 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It would be decent if they didn't cancel everybody at midday the day they retire or leave. Academia is a community that exists beyond the walls of institutions. People have allegiances that reflect that. This reveals the gulf in understanding between management and academics.
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How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies
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@erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
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@erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research
Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...
tandfonline.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
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📣 Upcoming event: On Wednesday 2 July we will be joined by Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Professor Shuchen Xiang and @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social to discuss Re-thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia. Find out more and register here to join us: bit.ly/3HWKQtX
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June 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📣 Upcoming event: On Wednesday 2 July we will be joined by Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Professor Shuchen Xiang and @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social to discuss Re-thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia. Find out more and register here to join us: bit.ly/3HWKQtX
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Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland
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Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland
Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
June 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland
Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland
Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
If you are interested in the institutionalisation, growth & current deterioration of structural support for ‘Women’s Studies’ (WS) in Indian public #HigherEd
... an OA version of this chapter is available on pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati...
#gender #CriticalUniversityStudies
... an OA version of this chapter is available on pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati...
#gender #CriticalUniversityStudies
May 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If you are interested in the institutionalisation, growth & current deterioration of structural support for ‘Women’s Studies’ (WS) in Indian public #HigherEd
... an OA version of this chapter is available on pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati...
#gender #CriticalUniversityStudies
... an OA version of this chapter is available on pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publicati...
#gender #CriticalUniversityStudies