#Students at my university are organizing around housing on #campus. Apparently students got letters saying their spots in 'public' university-owned dorms won't be available, but 'private' dorms (twice as expensive) will be. Here's some stuff I found on the #finance behind this.🧵 @edutooters
david i. backer
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Not only that, but the agreement gives monopoly power to USH and promises them they'll be the only provider of this new housing, even above the university itself. 8/x
The cooperation agreement itself is quite damning. They agree to reduce the number of public beds by 393 and cap the number of public beds at a total of 5,835. 7/x
The university agreed to "limit the use and growth" of the public dorms, presumably so that demand for housing would increase and justify increased supply of private housing. https://emma.msrb.org/EA686908-EA538383-EA934553.pdf 6/x
How can we use Althusser to think through the struggles of the present?
Join us for a conversation with
@schooldaves
to discuss his new book Althusser and Education
@BloomsburyAcad
. Webinar hosted by
@EPFutures
with discussant
@AlpeshMaisuria
OA book: https://bloomsburycollections.com/book/althusser-and-education-reassessing-critical-education/
Bloomsbury Collections - Althusser and Education - Reassessing Critical Education
Louis Althusser was one of the foremost Marxist philosophers of the 20th century. His thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy and sociology of education. In this open access book, David Backer reexamines Althusser's philosophy of education, presents its flawed reception in critical educational research, and draws out what the philosophy has to offer us today. Correcting the record about Althusser's thinking in the traditional narrative of critical educational research becomes an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions for thinking about school in its social context. For students and researchers of education, critical theory, sociology of education, and critical pedagogy, this book will be a resource for rethinking the social foundations of education, both as a field and as a set of theoretical frameworks for educational research. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available
Family leave, childcare, healthcare, housing and so much else in the US is a pathetic patchwork of privatized, de-centralized, and byzantine policies that make it much harder to bring up the people who are supposed to be the ones that carry the society forward in time.
It's so much work and they don't pay us a dime to do it.
They actually make it harder!
Parenting is such a social-structural trap!
But it takes resources--time, labor, effort--to reproduce the society these owners cherish get their wealth from.
Since the Wages for Housework campaign, socialist feminists have demanded that the work of social reproduction be valued and remunerated properly. In the 70s, they demanded women be paid wages for housework. More recent calls for guaranteed income echo this. 6/x
Without new humans to work and live in the society, what would the society be?
Like the film Children of Men, the social world would painfully collapse.
Bottom line: it takes *work* to maintain a continuity of the life and relations that society needs to keep going. 2/x
Social reproduction feminism, since the 1960s, has focused on the reproduction of life; how feminized carework is socially reproductive: giving birth, feeding, clothing, and generally making sure that children stay alive is an essential part of what keeps societies going. 1/x
There's an upcoming SCRG seminar around @schooldaves new book on Althusser! You are all warmly welcome! Especially those interested in Marxism and philosophy of higher education.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Althusser and (Higher) Education. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
[David I. Backer] Louis Althusser was one of the foremost Marxist philosophers of the 20th century. His thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy and sociology of education. In a new book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser’s philosophy of education, presents its flawed reception in critical educational research, and draws out what the philosophy has to offer us today. Correcting the record about Althusser’s thinking in the traditional narrative of critical educational research becomes an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions for thinking about school in its social context. In this talk, Backer will focus on the book’s overall claims and a specific debate between Althusser and Rancière on the politics of higher education pedagogy. The seminar will be recorded and published on YouTube. https://sc.amu.edu.pl/philosophy-of-higher-education/