Review of Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education, by Dina Zoe Belluigi (Ed.)
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In Being in Shadow and Light: Academics in Post/Conflict Higher Education, Editor Dina Zoe Belluigi and contributors shift attention from institutional reconstruction and policy reform toward the lived experiences of academics working in conflict and post-conflict higher education contexts. It explores how academics teach, remember, archive, resist, and produce knowledge under conditions shaped by violence, displacement, censorship, institutional silence, and historical trauma. This review highlights the book’s conceptual contribution through the interpretive framework of shadow and light, its methodological plurality, and its relevance to higher education studies, postcolonial theory, academic freedom, peace and conflict studies, and critical pedagogy. Overall, the book is a significant contribution to understanding academic subjectivity, educational responsibility, and knowledge production in contexts marked by unresolved conflict.
Author Biography
Frikho Fernando Polii, Universitas Negeri Surabaya
Frikho Fernando Polii is a researcher and doctoral candidate affiliated with Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia. Research interests include postcolonial studies, visual culture, film studies, media pedagogy, and cultural studies, with a particular focus on Indonesian biographical cinema and public pedagogy, and has contributed to several academic publications and conference presentations in the fields of humanities and education.
Email: frikho.22049@mhs.unesa.ac.id
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1782-0834
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[Book reviewed] Belluigi, D. Z. (Ed.). (2025). Being in shadow and light: Academics in post/conflict higher education. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0427
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