Scholar Activism - Ezra

How/Can activist scholarship challenge the structure of the neoliberal, corporatized & hyper-surveilled University? I am struggling here with the University's capacity to recuperate critique and refine its operational efficiency (re: counterinsurgency). Specifically, how can activist scholarship come into a productive tension with the institutions that fund and promulgate research? Examples here include how to help promote divestment from military profiteers or the defunding of campus policing. In this vein, how can research engage with the diffuse nature of power to interrogate the ways in which not only 'the University' or 'Academia', but also researchers' willingness to inhabit social positions within these are complicit in the daily reproduction of practices of inequity and exclusion? Furthermore, when scholar activism actively threatens an existing social or political system, what kinds of retaliations must one be willing to endure? What must an activist scholar be willing to lose?