Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., an activist-scholar, is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Criminology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Environmental Studies, and Gender and Women's Studies at Fort Lewis College. He has published over twenty-five books, including Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex (2010).

Erik Juergensmeyer, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric and Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Fort Lewis College. He is Editor of the Green Theory and Praxis Journal and Managing Editor of the Peace Studies Journal.

Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education is a cutting-edge investigation of the alarming state of education today. This practical how-to handbook gives readers tactics and strategies to organize and challenge forces that threaten liberatory critical education. Drawn from scholars and activists from across the world, the fifteen chapters guide readers through a strategic method of understanding the academic industrial complex and corporate education in the twenty-first century. Education is being hijacked by banks and corporations that are tearing apart the foundational fabric of academic freedom, resulting in mass standardized education and debt for all students and furthering racial inequity. This is a must-read for anyone interested in democracy, education, social justice, critical pedagogy, and Black Lives Matter.

Ward Churchill : Foreword: Remembering the Future? - Emma Pérez: Preface - Acknowledgments - Anthony J.Nocella II/Erik Juergensmeyer: Introduction-A Tactical Toolbox for Smashing Academic Repression - Part I.Neoliberal Education - Nick Clare/Gregory White/Richard J.White: Striking Out! Challenging Academic Repression in the Neoliberal University through Alternative Forms of Resistance: Some Lessons from the United Kingdom - Mary Heath/Peter Burdon: Academic Resistance: Landscape of Hope and Despair - Mark Seis: Parasites, Sycophants, and Rebels: Resisting Threats to Faculty Governance - Part II.Resisting - Camila Bassi: On Identity Politics, Ressentiment, and the Evacuation of Human Emancipation - Conor Cash/Geoff Boyce: Cutting Class: On Schoolwork, Entropy, and Everyday Resistance in Higher Education - Erik Juergensmeyer/Sue Doe: Owning Curriculum: Megafoundations, the State, and Writing Programs - Part III.Reclaiming - Laura L.Finley: Bureaucratic Stifling of Student and Faculty: Reclaiming College and University Campuses - Ryan Thomson: Reclaiming Campus as an Event Site: A Comparative Discussion of Student Resistance Tactics - John Lupinacci: Interrupt, Inspire, and Expose: Anarchist Pedagogy against Academic Repression - Part IV.Organizing - Diana Vallera: One of the Best Contracts in the Nation? How Part-time Faculty Organized for a Collective Bargaining Agreement - Sean Donaghue-Johnston/Tanya Loughead: Organizing Adjuncts and Citizenship within the Academy - Emil Marmol/Mary Jean Hande/Raluca Bejan: On Strike in the Ivory Tower: Academic Repression of Labor Organizing - Part V.Black Lives Matter In Education - Shannon Gibney: Racial Harassment in the "Postracial" Era: A Case of Discipline and Resistance in the Black Female Body - Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson: On Academic Repression, Blackness, and Storytelling as Resistance - Z.B. Hurst: Black Student Unions and Identity: Navigating Oppression in Higher Education - Afterword: Southwest Colorado Sociology Collective - Contributors' Biographies - Index.