ABSTRACT

This study is a pioneer in reporting about the impact of the Arab Spring at Gaza’s universities. It is grounded in 36 in-depth semi-structured interviews which I conducted with lecturers and students at two of the universities in Gaza, as part of a PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge (2012–17). Although the study has benefited from Freire’s and Bourdieu’s conceptual insights, it remains mainly data driven, giving primacy to the Southern experience of higher education (HE) in Gaza. The article shows that although the socio-political changes in the Arab world had a negative impact on the Gaza HE experience, influenced by the spirit of the revolutions, students felt encouraged to voice their discontent to their universities. Nonetheless, due to educational and political barriers, Gaza students’ voices remain a cacophony; they are split between compliance and resistance.

摘要

这项研究开创了报道阿拉伯之春对加沙大学影响的先河。它以我对加沙两所大学的讲师和学生进行的 36 次深入的半结构化访谈为基础，作为剑桥大学博士论文的一部分（2012-17 年）。尽管这项研究受益于弗莱雷和布迪厄的概念见解，但它仍然主要是数据驱动的，优先考虑南方在加沙的高等教育（HE）经验。文章表明，尽管阿拉伯世界的社会政治变化对加沙高等教育经历产生了负面影响，但受革命精神的影响，学生们仍感到鼓励向大学表达不满。然而，由于教育和政治障碍，加沙学生的声音仍然很刺耳；他们分为服从者和抵抗者。