%0 Journal Article %A Que Anh Dang %A Liviu Matei %A Milica Popovic %D 2024 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION %@ 2578-5761 %N 2 %V 5 %T Reimagining Academic Freedom: An Introduction %R 10.3726/PTIHE.022023.0209 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1456768 %X Is there a need to reimagine academic freedom? Does it happen? Where and how? As guest editors of this special issue, we have enjoyed the challenge of curating a set of papers under the theme of ‘reimagining academic freedom’. By ‘reimagining’ we refer to an act of imagining again and anew, more precisely to develop new conceptualisations and codifications of academic freedom (AF) from different perspectives. Because academic freedom is a necessary precondition to sociological imagination that challenges and defies the status quo