The banality of scholasticide: the role of universities and academia in an age of genocide
<p dir="ltr">This article draws on three levels of analysis to examine the systematic destruction of education in Gaza through the term ‘scholasticide'. First, scholasticide is introduced as an analytic and normative framework that captures the deliberate annihilation of educati...
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| Summary: | <p dir="ltr">This article draws on three levels of analysis to examine the systematic destruction of education in Gaza through the term ‘scholasticide'. First, scholasticide is introduced as an analytic and normative framework that captures the deliberate annihilation of educational institutions and intellectual spaces and highlights its legal and political weight. Second, it sheds light on the complicity of universities that extend to the USA, UK and Europe, where silence and refusal to acknowledge genocide act as key enablers of scholasticide. These complicities, the article argues, contribute to the normalisation of scholasticide and make it ‘banal'. Third, the analysis situates the failure to confront scholasticide within the broader failure of mainstream decolonisation studies to engage with the question of Palestine. The findings show that the targeting of Gaza's education ecosystem constitutes a central component of genocide. Scholasticide also implicates universities, which must either be charged with scholasticide or recognised as exhibiting scholasticidal tendencies. The article also finds that universities’ failure to address the genocide and scholasticide in Gaza reflects a wider failure of decolonisation studies to address the question of Palestine.</p><h2 dir="ltr">Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Globalisation, Societies and Education<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2025.2577694" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2025.2577694</a></p> |
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