Bullying the ‘Nerd’ or the Bullying ‘Nerd’
Vanhoutte K.K.P.
2020
Bullying: An Assault on Human Dignity
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10.1163/9781848881020_007
As almost all of us first encounter bullying during our (first) years in school, a certain kind of ‘cliché’ of what bullying is was installed in our minds from the beginning. Most of us will not find it hard to accept that a bully is the larger/bigger and more powerful one while the bullied victim is the tiny/little powerless one. This, however, is a somewhat limited idea on bullying. Starting with a small résumé of some of the responses to the question of what bullying is and is not, gathered during the opening session of the first conference - demonstrating the absence of this bullish aspect within higher education - I will continue by focusing on some of the more concrete threats posed on Humanities/Liberal Arts programs in higher education. As such, themes such as the possible closures of diverse H/LA faculties, the prevalence of papers over books in the so-called (newly discovered) ‘meritocracy’ of these faculties, then to this closely related fact of the hegemony of the Thomson company for A-list publications (a private company owning and publishing a large part of these A-list journals) will be confronted. © Inter-Disciplinary Press 2012.
Bullying; higher education; power; publishing; research assessment exercise; Scientific Citation Index; Simpsons; Thomson Reuters; university
Collini S., Browne’s Gamble, pp. 23-25; Loobuyck P., Et al., Welke Universiteit Willen Wij (Niet)?, (2007)
Brill
Book chapter
Scopus