TY - CHAP

T1 - A specter is haunting European higher education

T2 - the specter of neo-nationalism

AU - Brøgger, Katja

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Chapter 4, written by Katja Brøgger, is concerned with the return of nationalisttendencies and movements and their effects on post-World War II effortsat harmonising higher education within the European Union. Writing from herown location within a Danish institution of higher education, Brøgger centresher arguments on Derrida’s (1994) understanding of the haunting of ghostsas a matter of revenance, that is, ‘a question of repetition’ (p. 11). From there,she traces Europe’s ghosts of nationalism back to the beginnings of modernterritorial statehood, so as to contextualise the ebbs, flows, and complex entanglements of international alliances, nationalist policies and outright xenophobic interventions in contemporary Danish education policies and practice within an analysis of a much wider European political crisis. Brøgger argues that as participants in higher education obey new and emerging protectionist laws, justice remains yet to come. Importantly, however, she stays clear of making recommendations towards how then researchers, educators, and students of Danish (and European) higher education should respond: ‘What is needed’ she says, ‘is political action, and I am reluctant to point towards these groups and make them responsible’ (Brøgger, 2020).

AB - Chapter 4, written by Katja Brøgger, is concerned with the return of nationalisttendencies and movements and their effects on post-World War II effortsat harmonising higher education within the European Union. Writing from herown location within a Danish institution of higher education, Brøgger centresher arguments on Derrida’s (1994) understanding of the haunting of ghostsas a matter of revenance, that is, ‘a question of repetition’ (p. 11). From there,she traces Europe’s ghosts of nationalism back to the beginnings of modernterritorial statehood, so as to contextualise the ebbs, flows, and complex entanglements of international alliances, nationalist policies and outright xenophobic interventions in contemporary Danish education policies and practice within an analysis of a much wider European political crisis. Brøgger argues that as participants in higher education obey new and emerging protectionist laws, justice remains yet to come. Importantly, however, she stays clear of making recommendations towards how then researchers, educators, and students of Danish (and European) higher education should respond: ‘What is needed’ she says, ‘is political action, and I am reluctant to point towards these groups and make them responsible’ (Brøgger, 2020).

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-0-367-52784-6

SN - 978-0-367-52785-3

SP - 63

EP - 75

BT - Higher Education Hauntologies

A2 - Bozalek, Vivienne

A2 - Zembylas, Michalinos

A2 - Motala, Siddique

A2 - Hölscher, Dorothee

PB - Routledge

CY - Abingdon

ER -