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Questions of the Humanities and its Value
The integrative humanities is a form of value creation because it shows how contemporary rewritings of the past damage the present and the future.
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The tense dynamic between academic freedom and academic accountability will persist for publicly funded universities â and questions
will be asked of the âutilityâ of disciplines in an age of economic downturns and calls for instrumentalisation â social usefulness â of research. In this context, disciplinary distinctions will be exacerbated where funding agencies will examine âutilityâ above all else.
Here it is germane to note that the quantum and varieties of funding are starkly different across disciplines. Let us evaluate how many â and in what quantum â funding sources are available to the sciences (the various research agencies, DBT, DST etc) and those for humanities research (the ICHR, I