Politics, Academic Freedom, and Social Justice
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Social justice, Academic freedom, Political interferenceAbstract
The main letter from the editors of this special issue ends with a very optimistic message about the potential "long future of social justice research...in the online pages of ISTL." However, recent events have prompted us to temper this with an open acknowledgement of the difficult political context of this research.
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