Copyright

Richard Hudson-Miles;

Published On

2025-01-06

Page Range

pp. 287–337

Language

  • English

Print Length

51 pages

10. The Conflict of the Faculties, Again

Chapter of: Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education(pp. 287–337)
Scenes of the history of conflict within the university, and also the university’s conflictual history and present, shape this chapter. Short textual essays are combined with original composite images made by combining artists’ representations of the university with conflict photography taken by members of the University and College Union, the main trade union of British university workers, during recent demonstrations. The essays touch on critical university studies from Kant to Derrida to Readings, via discussions of university protests such as the Harvard Butter Rebellion, May ‘68 in Paris and Rhodes Must Fall.

Contributors

Richard Hudson-Miles

(author)
Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1055-4459

Richard Hudson-Miles is an interdisciplinary researcher, currently working as Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University. His research operates at the intersections of the history of art and design, radical social theory and the sociology of education. He is the editor of a forthcoming monograph on alternative art schools titled Cooperative Education, Politics, and Art (Routledge, 2024 [in press]). He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, and the Journal of Design, Business and Society. He also writes fashion and music criticism for ASBO magazine.