Theorizing the introduction and consolidation of the Social and Political Thought Black Studies Stream (a stream that was introduced prior to George Floyd’s summary execution and the wave of statements and “commitments” that followed in its wake), the author probes how the promise of integration relies on a temporality of belatedness that perpetually defers the content of its offer while simultaneously intensifying white violence. Thinking with Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), a novel attending to the failures of postcolonial Ghana, the author contends with the ruse of promissory liberal gestures made in service of introducing Black studies at York University and their function to stabilize the liberal multicultural university.
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This reflection explores how professors narrativize the role of graduate students at York University in the Social and Political Thought (SPT) program in Toronto. In the case of SPT and its administration from 2018 to 2022, graduate students, particularly those with academic service and governance experience, were considered adversaries rather than colleagues to senior faculty members because of their main goal: to successfully implement the institutionalization of the Black Studies, Theories of Race and Racism stream. Examining the conflicts that arose during this time reveals the importance of vigilance around the consolidation of Black studies in ostensibly progressive programs, and illuminates how the figuration of problem students provides a compelling alibi for the demoralizing and alienating social conditions in academia.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.3138/topia-2023-07-17
Sirma Bilge
La colonialité du pouvoir, du savoir et de l’être à l’ oeuvre dans l’université néolibérale se reproduit par l’incorporation de ses critiques. Afin de troubler cette reproduction, mon intervention tourne vers le concept d’interpellation pour sa capacité à conjuguer deux registres : celui de l’idéologie et celui de l’inconscient. L’objectif est de nous héler autrement, nous les universitaires dites critiques, afin que nous puissions nous libérer de l’emprise de l’interpellation hégémonique.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.3138/topia-2023-07-19
Beverly Bain
This article takes up the idea of collective organizing as a way to create learning and teaching spaces as liberatory. It engages the radical abolitionist work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore that insists we organize collectively as scholars and teachers in the university, to imagine that which engenders freedom. This paper also engages the writings of Black Studies Scholar Rinaldo Walcott and Indigenous Scholar Sandy Grande to reveal how the university with its compensatory individualism and politics of recognition work to maintain anti-blackness and white settler colonial practices. It ends with some examples of refusal and abolitionist practices aimed at creating and imagining spaces of learning and living.
本文将集体组织的理念作为一种创造学习和教学空间的解放方式。它采用了Ruth Wilson Gilmore的激进废奴主义作品，坚持认为我们作为大学里的学者和教师集体组织起来，去想象产生自由的东西。本文还结合了黑人研究学者里纳尔多·沃尔科特和土著学者桑迪·格兰德的著作，揭示了大学如何以其补补性个人主义和承认政治来维持反黑人和白人定居者的殖民实践。它以一些旨在创造和想象学习和生活空间的拒绝和废除主义实践的例子结束。
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This article interrogates the strategies of white supremacy that functioned as obstacles to the implementation of the Black Studies stream in the Social and Political Thought graduate program at York University. The author reflects on her experience as co-chair of the Graduate Student Association and an Executive Committee student representative the year before the inauguration of the stream, identifying and examining white bureaucratic delay, with its practices of reiterative revision and deliberation, as a tactical obstruction to Black studies. The author demonstrates how these administerial tactics, mutually dependent on anti-Black quotidian violence and the ongoing denial of its quintessence to the organizing logic of the university, also work to rescue academic whiteness from threats to its ascendancy, remaking it as the progressive agent of change in the neoliberal era of equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Asian international students in Canadian higher education have long caused anxiety and predicament for domestic (white) students, faculty, and staff. This article considers the contending and multiple timelines in and against which international students (Chinese, South Asians, or otherwise) operate. In particular, this article considers how these students time-trick the neoliberal university by examining reports and advocacy around three temporal events: extensions, cheating and suicide. Ultimately, the authors seek to problematize the moral panic over decreasing admission standards and academic integrity associated with the admission of Asian international students within the Canadian higher education system.
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Recently, it has become a common notion that the revolutionary scholar should have a relationship of theft with the university, which draws from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney and others. This paper challenges this relationship as revolutionary by stating, relationships of theft already exist in the university as seen amongst cheaters, an embodiment that is always already deemed criminal in the university.This article examines theft as it takes place in the politics of plagiarism, and cheating as two case studies that demonstrate that theft itself requires the facilitation of anti-Black property logics. In the examination of both moments, plagiarism and cheating, it is evident that the university subject’s relationship to property and ownership dictates which university subjects can steal and indeed force “mobility, and security” for themselves and their communities, and which university subjects and communities are perpetually stolen from, never fully having ownership over property. Assigning theft as a task only expands the role of the scholar, and by extension the university, both of which only exist to “violently extract” ( Kim, 2017 ) the knowledge and resources that is to be stolen.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.3138/topia-2023-06-19
Susan Ferguson
Mary-Jo Nadeau’s scholarship and politics deepened our understanding of the ways in which capitalism is built on social oppression. That insight is also at the heart of two renewed and burgeoning intellectual traditions: social reproduction theory (SRT) and abolition feminism. This article reads two powerful analyses of racial capitalism, Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2007) and Reckoning with Slavery by Jennifer Morgan (2021) , through an SRT lens. It stresses that these books document, on the one hand, the modern and colonial states’ organization of Black peoples’ life-making labours and, on the other hand, forms of resistance involving Black women’s individual and collective control over the conditions of social reproduction. In centring social reproduction in the analysis of the integral relation between class and race, and in strategizing resistance to capitalism, these accounts help to refine and concretize social reproduction feminist thinking about the state, alienation, and anti-oppression, anti-capitalist politics.
玛丽-乔·纳多的学术和政治成就加深了我们对资本主义是如何建立在社会压迫之上的理解。这种见解也是两种新兴的知识传统的核心:社会再生产理论(SRT)和废奴女权主义。本文通过SRT的视角，阅读了Ruth Wilson Gilmore(2007)的《金色古拉格》和Jennifer Morgan(2021)的《清算奴隶制》这两篇对种族资本主义的有力分析。它强调，这些书一方面记录了现代和殖民国家对黑人生活劳动的组织，另一方面记录了黑人妇女对社会再生产条件的个人和集体控制的抵抗形式。在分析阶级和种族之间的整体关系时，将社会再生产放在中心位置，在制定抵抗资本主义的策略时，这些描述有助于提炼和具体化社会再生产女权主义者关于国家、异化、反压迫、反资本主义政治的思考。
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There are several banners with messages created by the University of Toronto (UofT) placed alongside the major roads of its three campuses. In 2022, these messages included “Moving Toward Equity,” “Putting a Feminist Lens on Economic Recovery,” and “Obstacles are Motivations to Push Forward.” I remember seeing these banners and asking myself, “What happens when the university becomes the obstacle?” In this article, the author wants readers to think seriously about the university as an obstacle and what that means when thinking about another university now. One of these banners, Obstacles are Motivations to Push Forward, represents the university as a teleological space for forward movement. Like all other banners it is accompanied by the slogan Defy Gravity, part of the university’s fundraising campaign, that cites “the climate crisis,” “economic and social inequalities,” “systemic racism,” “injustices against Indigenous peoples,” and the COVID-19 pandemic, as reasons to “ rise and move forward together.” But what does it mean to move forward when the structures you are pushing against are built on neoliberal logics, corporatized institutional structures, and settler-colonial violence? If the university is a problem space that we inhabit, how can we ask a different set of questions with which to imagine another university? If the colonial-capitalist roots of the Canadian university foreclose other futures, is change even possible? Can the university be a locus for change if it is simultaneously an obstacle to change?
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Pub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.3138/topia-2023-06-20
Alan Sears
Mary Jo Nadeau was the theorist and practitioner of a mode of transformative politics oriented around mobilizing in ways that build power from below. She contributed to building a Palestine Solidarity movement in the Canadian state around the call from Palestinian civil society organizations for a campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions of Israeli institutions. Her activist practice modelled a politics of solidarity from below that was strategic, learning-oriented, creative and deeply transformative. Solidarity from below requires a delicate balance between recognizing the leadership of those who are struggling for their own freedom and taking responsibility from one’s own position to work together to undo systems of oppression. This mode of activism is built on an open-ended commitment to learning from others, recognizing that they bring experiences and organizing repertoires that are fundamental to effective transformation. As people mobilize, they develop capacities for collectivity powered by strategic victories, an increasing knowledge base, and the shared experience of playful creativity. This deliberate development of capacities from below is a fundamental feature of the project of social transformation.
玛丽·乔·纳多(Mary Jo Nadeau)是一种变革政治模式的理论家和实践者，这种模式以自下而上的动员方式为导向。她为在加拿大建立巴勒斯坦团结运动做出了贡献，该运动由巴勒斯坦民间社会组织发起，呼吁抵制、撤资和制裁以色列机构。她的激进主义实践塑造了一种自下而上的团结政治，这种政治是战略性的、学习型的、创造性的和深刻变革的。自下而上的团结需要一种微妙的平衡，一方面要承认那些为自己的自由而斗争的人的领导地位，另一方面要从自己的立场上承担责任，共同努力消除压迫制度。这种行动主义模式建立在向他人学习的开放式承诺之上，认识到他们带来的经验和组织的技能是有效转型的基础。当人们动员起来的时候，他们会发展出集体的能力，这种能力由战略胜利、不断增长的知识基础和有趣的创造力的共享经验所驱动。这种深思熟虑的自下而上的能力发展是社会转型计划的一个基本特征。
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