Double Blow to Scientific Research and Academic Freedom in Latinoamerica: Debt, Then Flames

Abstract

Weaving together some historical, collective, and personal threads, I focus mainly on the trajectory of the marks neoliberal policies had printed on the Mexican and Latinoamerican Public University. I examine some polices, spaces, and forms of academic research before and in neoliberal contexts. Then I examine how those policies have been outstanding capitalist dispositifs undermining critical and social justice-oriented higher education and research. I conclude that, very much like in the National Museum of Brazil in 2018, neoliberal policies and practices of debt set fire to the Latinoamerican Public University challenging Public University ideals.