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Dänemark: Forschende sehen Freiheit der Wissenschaft in Gefahr


Kategorien: Diversity, Antidiskriminierung, Intersektionalität; Europa und Internationales; Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; Wissenschaft Aktuell

In einem Offenen Brief monieren zahlreiche Forschende die zunehmenden Angriffe auf die Gender- oder Migrationsforschung.

Anlass ist eine Resolution des dänischen Parlaments, die Anfang Juni verabschiedet wurde:

"The position states that 'The Danish Parliament expects that the university leadership continuously ensures that the self-regulation of scientific practice is working. This means that there should be no standardization of research in order to produce politics disguised as science and that it is not possible to systematically avoid legitimate academic critique.' The position agreed upon in the Danish parliament states that it takes these measures in order to safeguard diversity. However, it is motivated by, and risks resulting in, the exact opposite.
This position represents the culmination of an intensive lobbying process and political campaign against targeted research environments by a number of politicians and public figures across the political spectrum. This campaign has specifically targeted critical research and teaching, especially in race-, gender-, migration-, and post-colonial studies, areas subjected to attacks. In recent years, politicians have also lashed out against academics working on a much wider range of issues such as climate, biodiversity, immigration, agriculture and inequality, and spanning the entire range of the humanities and the social, technical and natural sciences."

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