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The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
Stefano Harney,Fred Moten +1 more
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Walking in/as Publics: Editors Introduction
Punishment as Pedagogy: An Exploration of the Disciplinary Alternative School
Abstract: PUNISHMENT AS PEDAGOGY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE DISCIPLINARY ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL Kaitlyn J. Selman Old Dominion University, 2018 Director: Dr. Randy Myers As school districts across the US attempt to reduce their reliance on exclusionary punishment—and declining suspension and expulsion rates are heralded as signs of success— understanding the complexities of education and carcerality remains an urgent matter. Through a critical content analysis of a number of sources, including existing historical and ethnographic research, code of conduct handbooks, school websites, news articles, and data reports, this dissertation foregrounds an institution that is framed as an “alternative” to exclusionary punishment, yet is motivated by the same carceral logics that have long-haunted the school’s practice of managing students. Chapter I introduces relevant literature on disciplinary alternative education, fleshes out major theoretical concepts, and locates the critique of the disciplinary alternative school within the broader projects of reform and carceral state expansion. Chapter II traces the history of the alternative school, situating it as a legacy of the state’s disparate treatment of “problematic” youth during the Progressive era of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This chapter concludes that the alternative school has firm roots in the racialized notions of pathology and rehabilitation that motivated the child-saving and progressive alternative education movements. Chapter III demonstrates how the alternative school carries on the state’s tradition of pathologizing predominantly poor families of color but through distinctly neoliberal channels, as Progressive era assumptions take new forms under the influence of responsibilization and a “new paternalism.” Chapter IV undertakes a specific case study of Texas Disciplinary Alternative Education programs, illustrating how these schools prepare their students for futures of continued social and economic marginality within a neoliberal carceral state. Chapter V discusses how we can dismantle the carceral state and its adaptations, like the disciplinary alternative school, through the utopian imagination and abolition democracy. In its entirety, the dissertation uses the disciplinary alternative school as a heuristic model for recognizing and understanding the carceral state’s ability to evolve and thrive through progressive reform efforts. Foregrounding the experiences of exclusion, surveillance, and structural disadvantage that are often obscured by reformist language is necessary if we wish to raze a carceral state that continues to persist in important ways.
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Unsociable Poetry: Antagonism and Abstraction in Contemporary Feminized Poetics
TL;DR: Derksen et al. as discussed by the authors argue that the assumption of more abstraction is prevalent but never adequately explained, probably because abstraction, by its very nature, is not quantifiable; if it were, it would hardly be abstract.
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Aleatory entanglements: (Post)humanism, hospitality, and attunement—A response to Hugo Letiche
TL;DR: In this paper, a response to Hugo Letiche's "Bewildering Pedagogy", an extended critique of many of Snaza's published texts, is presented, with four important points of disagreement and elabora...
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Decolonizing study: Free universities in more-than-humanist accompliceships with Indigenous movements
Eli Meyerhoff,Fern Thompsett +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors put Indigenous study projects in conversation with free universities, which have also struggled against and beyond normal universities, through militant co-research, and asked: on what grounds might free universities align with Indigenous struggles, and how might such convergences be fruitful or fraught?
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