French academia, Gaza and Israel after October 7, 2023. A critical assessment
Résumé
Wars act as trying periods for a wide range of actors. The multifaceted effects of
violent conflict on academic production in the social sciences have received little
critical self-reflexive scrutiny. The object of this paper is to highlight the varied
recompositions in academia in wartime by focusing on France and the war in Gaza
that followed the October 7, 2023 attacks in Israel. While presenting the fields of
Palestinian and Israeli studies in French universities as largely separate due to
distinct institutional subcultures, the paper then highlights how recent developments
are breaching the norms that structure the ordered production of knowledge.
Interestingly, these violations are occurring less because of an extreme polarization
within the field of academia, than because of the attitude of external actors, in
particular French public institutions that are using both populist discourses
denouncing woke ideologies in universities and anti-terrorism laws to put pressure on
academics.
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