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World In Strife – Returning To The Humanities, Clive Barstow, Jill Felicity Durey
World In Strife – Returning To The Humanities, Clive Barstow, Jill Felicity Durey
Research outputs 2022 to 2026
The background of this article relates to a long, ongoing attenuation of the Humanities within universities. The problem is the continuing sidelining of the Humanities in university teaching and research funding. If this attenuation and sidelining continue, the world will be a much more cruel and dangerous place, as there will be no moral or ethical check on scientific and technological developments from a humanitarian perspective. This article discusses some of the fears, hopes and criticisms of the Humanities expressed by scholars around the globe, from western democracies including Australia, as well as from middle-eastern and eastern autocracies. The article …