This article analyses the recent political repression of academia in Hungary and Turkey within the critical scholarship on globalisation and neoliberalisation of higher education. We introduce and challenge the hegemonic definitions of academic freedom that sit comfortably with the capitalist logic as well as repressive governing forms and assess the recent attacks on university communities with emphasis on both academic labour and freedom. Adopting a case study approach, we investigate how economic and political forms of repression accompany and reinforce one another within the specificities of both country contexts. We delineate the underlying structural and historical dynamics as well as emergence and evolution of methods of struggle and resistance employed by diverse university communities in their shared and divergent characteristics. Our conclusions include critical reflections on the broader implications of higher education restructuring, authoritarian interventions, and the future of systemic-level resistance.

本文在关于高等教育全球化和新自由化的批判性学术研究中分析了匈牙利和土耳其最近对学术界的政治压制。我们引入并挑战与资本主义逻辑以及专制统治形式相适应的学术自由的霸权定义，并评估近期对大学社区的攻击，重点是学术劳动和自由。我们采用案例研究的方法，在两国具体情况下调查了镇压的经济和政治形式是如何相辅相成的。我们描述了潜在的结构和历史动态，以及各种大学社区在其共有和不同的特征中所采用的斗争和抵抗方法的出现和演变。