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A comprehensive framework examining how the modern university’s structure—contingent labor, grant pressures, publication metrics, administrative oversight—produces a pervasive chilling effect across all disciplines. Junior scholars avoid risky research, senior scholars self-censor to protect grants, and interdisciplinary work is discouraged because it doesn’t fit departmental structures. The theory explains why academic freedom is often nominal: the price of exercising it can be career destruction. It ties institutional precarity to intellectual conformity.
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