Copyright

Tereza Hendl

Published On

2026-04-29

Language

  • English

Print Length

10 pages

THEMA

  • JBFH
  • JHB
  • JHBA
  • JN
  • JBFA

BISAC

  • SOC007000
  • SOC026000
  • SOC026040
  • SOC008000
  • EDU015000

Keywords

  • migrant academics
  • academic precarity
  • academic mobility
  • autoethnography
  • postcolonial academia
  • global higher education

Moving through Power

Chapter of: From the Margins: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity

Having gone around the world as a political philosopher, the chapter explores a migrant academic’s journey through the Netherlands, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and Germany. Looking at Western-centric academia and its power structures, the hierarchies of knowledge and humanity maintained within them and the continuous devaluation and disregard of the knowledges from (de)occupied Europe’s East, the migrant experience is one of concern with what persistent East-West inequalities tell on those who enact and preserve them. Experiencing an increasingly far right German socio-political and academic environment brings back echoes of Nazi imperialism and Aryan racism that are haunting beyond a salvageable point. Refusal emerges as a profoundly powerful intergenerational response and the only way toward an intellectually and humanely meaningful and inspiring experience.

Contributors

Tereza Hendl

(author)
Philosopher & Visiting Researcher at University of Warsaw
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6472-7028

Tereza Hendl (PhD) is a philosopher specialised in issues of global health justice (University of Augsburg, EACME Visiting Researcher at the University of Warsaw Center for Bioethics & Biolaw). She investigates concerns of oppression, refusal, justice, and solidarity, the ethics and epistemology of health technologies and interventions, and persistent East-West hierarchies of knowledge. Some of her latest work explores European East-West inequalities and their effects on health and wellbeing, also accounting for the impact of the intertwined legacies of Russian and German imperialism on directly affected populations. She is the co-founder of Central and Eastern European Feminist Research Network and the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, which are initiatives that amplify and (re)connect so far marginalised knowledges and contribute to epistemic reparations.