by Kean Birch, York University This is a slightly revised version of an article that originally appeared on the New Left Project website This article was originally written as a response to a piece...
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Intervention – We have never been neoliberal
Intervention – The brutal lives of others: Exploitation in the academy
by Kean Birch, York University In the Chronicle of Higher Education, William Pannapacker - under his pen name Thomas H. Benton - wrote an article titled ‘Graduate school in the humanities: Just...
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Intervention – Never stop writing
by Freerk Boedeltje, San Diego State University In the midst of Communist Czechoslovakia it was not unusual to have trials against political opponents. They carried the name of ‘dissidents’....
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Intervention – Where’s our agency? The role of grading in the neoliberalization of public universities
by Culum Canally, Wilfrid Laurier University Over the last several years I have been involved in numerous discussions and academic panels that lament the reduction in public funding and simultaneous...
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Intervention – Kony 2012: Violence as evil, war as contest, intervention as benevolence
by Connor Cavanagh, The Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet), Uppsala, Sweden By now, you’ve seen or heard of the video. You’ve probably also read some of the debates (see, for...
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