Uneven geographies of power in UK higher education's conjunctural crisis: A response to Gandy

This article constitutes a response to Matthew Gandy’s article ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo-liberal academy in the form of a conjunctural analysis’. It discusses the UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) open-access proposal for book publications in the context of broader and chilling attacks on academic freedom driven in large part by the current government and supported by UKRI. It argues that there is a lot at stake, not just our ability as academics to publish in university and activist presses, but also our ability to express our solidarity with Palestine, to defend the rights of transgender people, to withdraw our labour and engage in other political actions and forms of expression in the face of oppression.