Reflections on Working in Academia during a Genocide

Buerki, Andreas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2151-3246 2025. Reflections on Working in Academia during a Genocide. Presented at: Protecting Education from Wales to Palestine, Swansea, UK, 15 October 2025.

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Abstract

The first part of this talk presents practice-based reflections on building an understanding of the role of academic and other workers at universities during the Gaza genocide (as per UN Human Rights Council, 2025). A pertinent aspect in this is the constrained environment that the present marketised UK university system imposes, including the forces, managerial and ideological, to which workers are subjected when attempting to conceptualise their duties and obligations in the workplace and outside of it. The second part of the talk aims to present options for the authentic expression of ethical working in academica during a genocide (where authentic is understood as consistent with an individual’s understanding of their role and their conscience). A range of actions both within and outside institutionally sanctioned mechanisms of representation are discussed as examples of authentic responses to a genocide, as well as examples of effects of actions, including institutional reactions, community reactions and reactions of co-workers and students.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Last Modified:	17 Oct 2025 09:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181722

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