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…
Shoestring Initiative
https://shoestringinitiative.com/ The Shoestring Initiative is a grassroots initiative to build community and support among first-generation students, staff, and faculty who identify as coming from poverty, working class backgrounds, first generation, and from/in foster care. As members of the UVic community from poverty or working class origins ourselves, we recognize that our backgrounds come with shared…
Dear White Administrators in Academia – sign the petition
This letter originally appears in a text about decolonizing academia published in Dec 2018 by Clelia O. Rodriquez’s “Decolonizing academia: Poverty, pain, and oppression” (p. 119). Published by Fernwood Publishing. Dear white administrators in academia: You, as the sole protectors of intellectual property, are claiming politics of diversity in a built-in, impenetrable, and dismissive apparatus…
Move along: Outsiders telling the stories of Others (micro-documentary)
Directed and produced by: Dallas Hauck and Elaine Laberge
University can change homeless people’s lives, but they need support to get there – by Becky Edwards (UK)
Becky Edwards Thu 18 Apr 2019 The Guardian (open access) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/18/university-can-change-homeless-peoples-lives-but-they-need-support-to-get-there?fbclid=IwAR0aed4f7zHSeMcCzAnsymcv3q3B-SKVnApodfuu34hP2gw5Rw8MPlbMFVE When Lucy Davis left school at 12, falling into addiction and ultimately homelessness, the last thing she thought she’d be doing at 30 was going to university. But now she’s planning to start a fine art degree in September. Davis is one of five…
Canada was colonized based on racism and classism
By Elaine Laberge, April 8, 2019 Published in The Martlet LETTER | Canada was colonized based on racism and classism American Dream, meritocracy, rags-to-riches, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, born on third base, the (un)deserving poor — these are just a smattering of the dominant, colonial, social class narratives that have been planted in…
Neither Radical nor Revolutionary: The Preservation of Privilege in Social Justice Activism
https://medium.com/@lauralemoon/neither-radical-nor-revolutionary-the-preservation-of-privilege-in-social-justice-activism-790870b43c88 By: Laura LeMoon Sex Worker, public health researcher and all around badass bitch If you’re poor, like I am, you’re probably used to losing out on opportunities to make money because of your poverty. It’s a fucked up catch-22 that I still find maddening. I’m sitting here on Facebook, looking at all the joyous…
The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students…
The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students, explained with a cartoon: We stunt upward mobility and make college a finishing school for the affluent Updated by Alvin Chang@alv9nalvin@vox.com Sep 11, 2017, 8:30am EDT https://www.vox.com/2017/9/11/16270316/college-mobility-culture
The material politics of stereotyping white trash: flexible class-making
Marjo Kolehmainen First Published December 1, 2016 Social Class Link to online article: The Sociological Review Abstract This article provides a detailed analysis of novel forms of class-making in Finland, with special emphasis on emerging threads on ‘white trash’ in a popular discussion forum. The article is based on an empirical study, the data for…
Who’s Able-Bodied Anyway? The 400-year history of how we talk about the deserving versus the undeserving poor.
By Emily Badger and Margot Sanger-Katz Feb. 3, 2018 https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/upshot/medicaid-able-bodied-poor-politics.html?referer=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com The “able-bodied” are now everywhere among government programs for the poor, Republican officials point out. They’re on food stamps. They’re collecting welfare. They’re living in subsidized housing. And their numbers have swelled on Medicaid, a program that critics say was never designed to serve them….
Maybe now we can finally say it out loud — social class matters; poverty shapes an entire life
Put aside, for the moment, statistics and claims about declining rates of poverty in Canada. Poverty becomes part of individual and collective embodied beings. I know this because I come from generational poverty.
Preface: Pushing privileged pillars in Canadian higher education
By Elaine Laberge I have nothing to protect me: no armour, healthy bank account, powerful allies, dedicated mentors, or map to traverse hostile academic landscapes. I don’t know where all the dangers lie or what lies in wait should I transgress. That is, beyond being outed and ousted from academia. Beyond being sidelined, tossed away, devalued, disowned, Othered,…
Dr. Elaine J Laberge 