https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-3-what-exactly-is-neoliberalism-wendy-brown-undoing-the-demos Timothy Shenk ▪ April 2, 2015 Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by Dissent contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this interview, he spoke with Wendy Brown about her new book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, 2015). Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing income inequality, political disappointments reaching…
‘White Trash’ history reveals why class is crucial in U.S. election
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/white-trash-history-reveals-why-class-is-crucial-in-u-s-election-1.3703775 Air Date: Aug 02, 2016 12:00 AM ET with Anna Maria Tremonti Author Nancy Isenberg on her book “White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America” and the roles of race and class in this year’s presidential election. here is the transcript: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-august-2-2016-1.3703739/august-2-2016-full-episode-transcript-1.3704740 Tuesday August 02, 2016 August 2, 2016 full…
The Original Underclass: Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/?utm_source=atlfb Alec MacGillis and ProPublica September 2016 Issue The Atlantic Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language of campaign pundits prevailed. There was much discussion of “white working-class voters,” with whom the Democrats, and especially Barack…
I Know Why Poor Whites Chant Trump, Trump, Trump
http://www.theestablishment.co/2016/05/24/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/ by Jonna Ivin I’m just a poor white trash motherfucker. No one cares about me. I met the man who said those words while working as a bartender in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. It was a one-street town in Benton County. It had a beauty parlor, a gas station, and a bar…
Diverse Conversations: 4 Predictions for College Diversity by 2020
http://diverseeducation.com/article/85667/ by Matthew Lynch Diversity on college campuses is ever-evolving, thanks in big part to the students who attend. The student population determines the level of advocacy on particular campuses and also the basic makeup of the diversity. As all of us who are a part of the college and university landscape look ahead to…
Poverty talk: how people experiencing poverty deny their poverty and why they blame ‘the poor’
by TracyShildrick, RobertMacDonald The Sociological Review Volume 61, Issue 2 May 2013 Pages 285–303 Original article Abstract Drawing on life history interviews with sixty men and women in north-east England who were caught up in ‘the low-pay, no-pay cycle’, this article describes how people living in poverty talk about poverty – in respect of…
The Research Project
WANTED participants for ongoing research conversations WHO have grown up in poverty are University of Alberta undergraduates from any discipline are able to meet in-person six times over five- to six months WHY to make visible poverty-class students’ university experiences to understand how universities may shape diversity policies CONTACT Elaine Laberge elaberge@ualberta.ca Master’s thesis-based student…
Underclass Ontologies: extract from a review essay by Samuel Strong — Social Abjection
Underclass ontologies (extracted from a review essay in Political Geography, 2015) by Samuel Strong @samuelrstrong “There’s a lot to be said about euthanasia regarding certain members of todays society. We are creating a bigger problem with these feral excuse for humans. We complain about immigrants and rightly so but we now have a under class […]…
Dr. Elaine J Laberge 