Session sponsor: poverty, class, and inequalitySession organizers: Elaine Laberge, University of Victoria (Canada) | Annette M Mackay, West Virginia University (USA) Around the world, nations are ravaged by capitalism, neoliberalism, ever-evolving —isms. In colonized nations, stratification ladders are forged with the iron will of colonial and capitalist beliefs and practices. We are in a moment…
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Free Webinar Series with Sara Ahmed
Thursdays | 10AM ACDT | ZOOM Wednesdays | Canada, UK | ZOOM Canada Time Zone: Wednesdays 3:30pm PST. 4:30pm MST, 6:30 EST UK Time Zone: Wednesdays 11:30pm GMT Time and Date Zone Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Sara Ahmed (@SaraNAhmed) is a feminist writer and independent scholar working at the intersection of feminist, queer and race studies. Her…
Who is Elaine?
Attributes and Skills Connection: Recognised as a community builder who is respected for working toward addressing systemic inequality and inequity to remove barriers to access and participation in society. Believes strongly working together to meet the needs of their communities.Communication: An excellent communicator, presenter and collaborator who engages effectively and comfortably with diverse stakeholders. Creates…
Let’s do it. Let’s do it now. By Peter Shukie
Let’s do it. Let’s do it now by Peter Shukie Peter Shukie, Blackburn College, Lancashire, UK https://www.blackburn.ac.uk/lecturer-profile/SHUP10 4vlhy9 Blog 0 @shukieone @AcademicsClass Reposted with permission Introduction It has been quite difficult to write this seminar. The difficulty has not been in knowing what to say, but in recognising the responsibility that comes with saying it….
String it Together learning series
The Shoestring Initiative hosts monthly free String it Together: Finding togetherness in community on the education digi-scape webinars focused on social class on how classism shapes experiences in and understandings of higher education in Canada and around the world. The Shoestring Initiative is a grassroots solidarity movement to create communities of mentorship, belonging, support and…
Returning to the Barnyard
ELAINE J. LABERGE Returning to the Barnyard VICTORIA, BC | FEBRUARY 2018 Published in https://humanitiesnetwork.wixsite.com/anthology/downloads How different my story could have been told if I had not entered the world into poverty; I was raised in a community that storied me by my family’s poverty; I was storied by my mother’s supposed failings and weaknesses…
Neoliberalism’s Defeat of Democracy
http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/neoliberalisms_defeat_of_democracy/ Neoliberalism’s Defeat of Democracy Wendy Brown. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York, Zone Books, 2015. 296pp. $29.95, hardcover. Reviewed by Jodi Dean In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the end of history. The great ideological struggles characteristic not only of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but of history as such had…
A submission to the British Columbia Poverty Reduction Strategy
Submitted by Elaine J. Laberge Doctoral student (Sociology), University of Victoria, MA, BA (250) 686-2214 elaberge@uvic.ca http://www.echoesofpoverty.com Poverty is our most devastating social failure in this greatly affluent age and land—and, the heaviest burden on our social conscience. John Kenneth Galbraith (1986) The larger picture: I draw your attention to key points…
The Caboose
January 8, 2018 Epistemology: the root word clangs, clacks, and bangs against the suffix like the strain of a train’s caboose against the rusty cars it follows. The caboose is long forgotten, perhaps unknown; yet, childhood images deeply shapes my tension-filled understandings of knowledge. With the blistering prairie sun raining down on my white skeletal…
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
“The wind of poverty blows like a cyclone with a heavy tide of hardship, melancholy, acrimony and socio-political anarchism sweeping violently along its pathway. This tide makes the pathway difficult to travel, overcome and manoeuvre. Several policy actors and researchers have made attempts to proffer determined solutions to this tenuous situation has however defy most…
New research project: “Pushing Privileged Pillars: A narrative study of university leaders’ beliefs about poverty-class students and poverty”
This doctoral research will explore university leaders’ (professors, advisors, administrators, alumni) perceptions of post-secondary students who grew up in persistent childhood poverty. Canadian higher education equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) leaders are grappling with diversity. Part of the difficulty lies with understanding leaders’ lay beliefs about poverty-class students—an under-researched area. Theoretically, those in academia understand…
