Works and Days 65/66, 67/68in collaboration with Cultural Logic
Scholactivism: Reflections on Transforming Praxis Inside and Outside the Classroom
Vol. 33 & 34
2016-2017
Ed.
Joseph G. Ramsey
Contents:
Table of Contents and Marc Bousquet's "Here We Come"
Joseph G. Ramsey: "Introducing Scholactivism: Reflections on Transforming Praxis in and beyond the Classroom"
Conversations with Activist Scholars
Edward J. Carvalho with Ward Churchill: "The Activist Scholar: A Responsibility 'to confront and dismantle'"
Babak Amini: "Scholactivism: A Roundtable Interview with Ricardo Antunes, Pietro Basso, Patrick Bond, Michael Lowy, Jose Paulo Netto, and Leo Panitch"
Carl Grey Martin and Modhumita Roy with Marcus Rediker: "Narrative Resistance"
Defining and Contesting the Terms and Terrain of "Schol-Activism"
Toby Miller: "We Are All Activists Now"
Patrick Colm Hogan: "Politically Engaged Scholars: An Analytic of Positions and Norms"
The MLA Subconference Committee: Bennett Carpenter, Laura Goldblatt, Lenora Hanson, Karim Wissa, and Andrew Yale: "
Resisting Neoliberalism in the University--Classes, Campuses, Communities
Jeffrey Noonan: "Resolving the Contradictions of Academic Unionism"
Gary Zabel: "Critical Revolutionary Praxis in the Neoliberal University"
Bradley Freeman: "Better Days Ahead: Teaching Revolutionary Futures and Protesting the Present"
John Maerhofer: "Lukacs, Mariategui, and the Dialectical Roots of Edu-Activism"
Stephen Ferguson and Gregory Meyerson: "Shred of Truth: Antinomy and Synechdoche in the Work of Ta-Nehisi Coates"
Ian Butcher: "Student Evaluations, Neoliberal Managerialism, and Networks of Mistrust"
Learning in the Shadow of State Terror: A Poetic Interlude
Demetrius Noble: "'I am Not that Corpse: A Working Praxis for Black Lives Matter,' 'A Martyr without a Cause, or Much Ado about Trayvon,' 'Homecoming'"
Jill McDonough: "'Amos D. Squire, Chief Physician of Sing Sing, 1914-25,' 'Joe Hill's Prison,' 'Coffee Everyone,' 'Blackwater,' 'Women's Prison Every Week,' 'Where You Live,' 'Dear Gaybashers'"
Virtual Universities, Digital Activists, and their Discontents
Ali Shezhad Zaidi: "The Promise and Peril of the Virtual University"
Efadul Huq and Xavier Best: "Untangling the Scholactivist Web"
Sophia A. McClennen: "What's Wrong with Slactivism? Confronting the Neoliberal Assault on Millennials"
Doing What We Can from Where We Are: Personal Histories and Case Studies
Jeffrey DiLeo: "Top Cover: On Administrative Activism in the Neoliberal Academy"
Katie Hogan: "Complicit: On Being a WGSS Program Director in the Neoliberal University"
Vincent B. Leitch: "Letter on Scholactivism: To Graduate 411 Students and Young Colleagues"
Marisol Cortez: "Occupy Los Intersticios! Or, In Defense of Carbon-Free Unicorns"
Tony Van der Meer: "Fighting to be Different in the Academy"
Kim Emery: "Rights and Rebellion: The Faculty Role, Revisited"
Learning from Those who Taught Us: Tributes
Victor Wallis: "Richard Levins and Dialectical Thinking"
Joel Woller, Courtney Maloney, and Charles Cunningham: "On the Ground with David Demarest: Toward a Methodology of Scholar Activism"
Christopher Craig: "John Trudell and the Spirit of Life"