ii Cultural Logic, 2015-2017 (Whole Number 22) ISSN 1097-3087 [Digital Edition] Works and Days, 2016-2017, 65/66, 67/68, Vols. 33 & 34 ISSN 0886-2060 [Print Edition] Scholactivism: Reflections on Transforming Praxis in and beyond the Classroom Edited by Joseph G. Ramsey Editorial Assistants: Peter Faziani, Matthew Stumpf Scholactivism front cover graphic design by Edward J. Carvalho Cultural Logic original design by Denise Mitchinson Editorial Policies Cultural Logic, which has been on-line since 1997, is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes essays, interviews, poetry, reviews (books, films, other media), etc. by writers working within the Marxist tradition. The editors will also print responses to work published in earlier issues. Texts may be of varying length and may conform to any of the commonly accepted scholarly formats (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, Humanities, etc.). 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Web site: www.worksanddays.net iii Editors’ Note This triple issue of Cultural Logic (Volumes 2015-2017, Whole Number 22) is our third collaboration with Works & Days. Previous co-published issues include “Education for Revolution” (Cultural Logic, Volume 2013, Whole Number 20) and “Culture and Crisis” (Cultural Logic, Volume 2010, Whole Number 17), the latter of which was also edited by Joseph G. Ramsey. The editors of Cultural Logic are indebted to David B. Downing and his staff at Works & Days for their tremendous work on the print version of this issue as well as our previous collaborations. We also encourage you to support Works & Days by subscribing. This version of the issue contains minor revisions from its originally published form. Special thanks to Linda Liu for her assistance in preparing this issue. v Scholactivism Reflections on Transforming Praxis in and beyond the Classroom Edited by Joseph G. Ramsey Here We Come viii Marc Bousquet Introducing Scholactivism: Reflections on Transforming Praxis in and beyond the Classroom 1 Joseph G. Ramsey Conversations with Activist Scholars The Activist Scholar: A Responsibility “to confront and dismantle” 38 Edward J. Carvalho with Ward Churchill Scholactivism: A Roundtable Interview with Ricardo Antunes, Pietro Basso, Patrick Bond, Michael Löwy, José Paulo Netto, and Leo Panitch 46 Babak Amini Narrative Resistance 54 Carl Grey Martin and Modhumita Roy with Marcus Rediker Defining and Contesting the Terms and Terrain of “Schol-Activism” We Are All Activists Now 71 Toby Miller Politically Engaged Scholars: An Analytic of Positions and Norms 82 Patrick Colm Hogan Schol...Exodus?: Learning Within/Against/Beyond the Institution 108 The MLA Subconference Committee: Bennett Carpenter, Laura Goldblatt, Lenora Hanson, Karim Wissa, Andrew Yale vi Resisting Neoliberalism in the University-- Classes, Campuses, Communities Resolving the Contradictions of Academic Unionism 121 Jeffrey Noonan Critical Revolutionary Praxis in the Neoliberal University 137 Gary Zabel Better Days Ahead: Teaching Revolutionary Futures and Protesting the Present 157 Bradley Freeman Lukács, Mariátegui, and the Dialectical Roots of Edu-Activism 176 John Maerhofer Student Evaluations, Neoliberal Managerialism, and Networks of Mistrust 233 Ian Butcher Learning in the Shadow of State Terror: A Poetic Interlude “I am Not that Corpse: A Working Praxis for Black Lives Matter,” “A Martyr without a Cause, or Much Ado about Trayvon,” “Homecoming” 250 Demetrius Noble “Amos D. Squire, Chief Physician of Sing Sing, 1914-25,” “Joe Hill’s Prison,” “Coffee Everyone,” “Black- water,” “Women’s Prison Every Week,” “Where You Live,” “Dear Gaybashers” 257 Jill McDonough Virtual Universities, Digital Activists, and their Discontents The Promise and Peril of the Virtual University 268 Ali Shezhad Zaidi Untangling the Scholactivist Web 282 Efadul Huq and Xavier Best What’s Wrong with Slactivism? Confronting the Neoliberal Assault on Millenials 297 Sophia A. McClennen Doing What We Can from Where We Are: Personal Histories and Case Studies Top Cover: On Administrative Activism in the Neoliberal Academy 311 Jeffrey DiLeo Complicit: On Being a WGSS Program Director in the Neoliberal University 323 Katie Hogan vii Letter on Scholactivism: To Graduate Students and Young Colleagues 330 Vincent B. Leitch Occupy Los Intersticios! Or, In Defense of Carbon-Free Unicorns 334 Marisol Cortez Fighting to be Different in the Academy 352 Tony Van der Meer Rights and Rebellion: The Faculty Role, Revisited 360 Kim Emery Learning from Those who Taught Us: Tributes Richard Levins and Dialectical Thinking 374 Victor Wallis On the Ground with David Demarest: Toward a Methodology of Scholar Activism 379 Joel Woller, Courtney Maloney, Charles Cunningham John Trudell and the Spirit of Life 394 Christopher Craig Contributors Babak Amini is a PhD student in Sociology at the London School of Economics. He is a member of the editorial board of Socialism and Democracy. Among his recent publications are the edited books, (with Marcello Musto) Routledge Handbook of Marx's Capital: A Global History of Transition, Dissemination, and Reception (Routledge, Forthcoming), and The Radical Left in Europe in the Age of Austerity (Routledge, 2016). His research interests are the history of socialist ideas and workers’ control organizations. Email: b.amini@lse.ac.uk Ricardo Antunes is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences at UNICAMP (State University at Campinas, São Paulo). Among his publications are The Meanings of Work: Essay on the Affirmation and Negation of Work (2012), Riqueza e Miséria no Trabalho no Brasil [Wealth and Poverty in Brazil] (2013, 2007), Adeus ao Trabalho: Ensaio Sobre as Metamorfoses e a Centralidade do Mundo do Trabalho [Goodbye to work. Essay on the Metamorphoses and the World of Centralization of Work] (2009), and A Desertificação Neoliberal No Brasil [The Neoliberal desertification in Brazil] (2004). He was affiliated with the Workers Party (PT), from 1983 to 2003 and is founder and affiliated to the Party of Socialism and Liberty (PSOL) since 2004. Pietro Basso is professor of Sociology in the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He has published extensively on unemployed people, working hours, international migration, and state racism. His essays, signed or anonymous, have been published in political reviews as “Page deux”, “Agone”, “Ventesimo secolo”, “Movimento operaio e socialista”, “Transfer”. Starting from the spring of 1968, he has been deeply engaged in social and workers’ movements, in anti-war and anti-racist activities. Xavier Best is a writer and independent political critic who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. He is an alumni of Georgia Southern University where he received a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology with a Minor in Writing. He can be contacted via email at xb00042@gmail.com Patrick Bond is, from July 2015, Professor of Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance and also Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu- Natal School of Built Environment and Development Studies where, since 2004, he has directed the Centre for Civil Society. Patrick’s recent books include: City of Deception: Capital Accumulation, Dis-accumulation and Uneven Development in Durban (with Ashwin Desai) (2015); BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique (co-edited with Ana Garcia) (2015); South Africa: The Present as History (with John Saul) (2014), Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa; Politics of Climate Justice: Paralysis Above, Movement Below (2014); and Durban’s Climate Gamble: Trading Carbon, Betting the Earth (edited) (2011). Marc Bousquet is the author of How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low- Wage Nation. He is an associate professor of media studies at Emory University. Ian Butcher is a doctoral candidate at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. His dissertation "Reading the Culture Wars in the New Academic Novel, 1985-Present" traces the rise of neoliberalism as an organizing principle in higher education and its effects on academic labour and notions of professionalization through a study of academic novels set during or responding to the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Bennett Carpenter is a community organizer in Durham, NC and a reluctant graduate student at Duke, where his research focuses on the concept of the lumpenproletariat from Marx to Fanon (and on). In his free time he enjoys playing bridge and banjo. Edward J. Carvalho is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is co-editor of Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era, guest editor for the Works and Days special journal issue Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University (2008-2009), and author of Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and Short (2007). Ward Churchill is a veteran activist-scholar and member of the Rainbow Council of Elders and (still) Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Before moving to Atlanta in 2012, he was a member of the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado, a position he’ d held for 30 years. An award-winning writer, Churchill has published more than 20 books on American Indian history and the suppression of political dissent in the United States. These include Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (1988, 2002); The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States (1990, 2002); A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present (1997); On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences on U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality (2003); and, most recently, A Decolonizing Encounter: Ward Churchill and Antonia Darder in Dialogue (Pierre Orelus, ed., 2012). Until 2007, Churchill was a tenured professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Marisol Cortez, Ph.D. is a creative writer and community-based scholar rooted in San Antonio, Texas. Her current writing explores urban land use struggles at the intersection of calls for a right to the city and the rights of nature/la madre tierra. Christopher Craig teaches literature and writing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His essays and reviews have appeared in The American Studies Journal, Pacific Northwest Literature, Radical Teacher, Reconstruction, and Works & Days. Charles Cunningham is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at East Michigan State University. His recent articles include: "'A War Once Started': Feminism, Marxism, and the Dialectics of Destruction" "The Dialectics of Hope: Marxism and Method in The Cultural Front" and "Rethinking the Politics of The Grapes of Wrath." Jeffrey R. Di Leo is dean of the School of Arts & Sciences and professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is editor and publisher of American Book Review, and the founder and editor of symplokē. His forthcoming books include American Literature as World Literature, which will come out this winter, and the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, which will appear in 2018. Kim Emery is an associate professor in the English department at the University of Florida; she is working on a book about queer theory and the corporate university. Stephen C. Ferguson II is an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. He is author of Philosophy of African American Studies: Nothing Left Of Blackness (Palgrave, 2015). Bradley M Freeman is an instructor at Seattle University where he teaches courses on American cultural studies and writing. Laura Goldblatt is a literary and cultural studies scholar serving at the University of Virginia as the Engagements Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is currently engaged in two research projects. The first is a study of propaganda and settler colonialism in the twentieth-century United States. The second is a theoretical analysis of place-based pedagogy in the neoliberal university and its relationship to low-wage service work. Her published work has appeared in Mississippi Quarterly and the Journal of American Studies, and with Carpenter and Hanson in Pedagogy, Works and Days, and Feedback. She has an essay forthcoming in Winterthur Portfolio about images of Native Americans on U.S. postage stamps co-written with Richard Handler. Lenora Hanson writes about literature and the university in various venues and with various co- conspirators. She has just finished her PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is beginning as assistant professor of English at New York University in fall 2017. Katie Hogan is a professor of English and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her book Women Take Care: Gender, Race, and the Culture of AIDS was a finalist for the CGS Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities. Katie is also co-editor of Gendered Epidemic: Representations of Women in the Age of AIDS and Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces. Her current project, All Over the Place, explores how LGBTQI literature challenges the urban/rural divide in queer studies. Her teaching interests include critical university studies, the literature of environmental justice, transfeminisms, girl cultures, and LGBTI literature. Patrick Colm Hogan is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the English Department at the University of Connecticut, where he is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Science Program. Hogan is the author of over twenty books, most recently including Understanding Kashmir: Emplotment and Colonialism and the forthcoming Sexual Identities: A Cognitive Literary Study. Efadul Huq is a doctoral student in Urban and Regional Planning at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Vincent Leitch holds the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English at the University of Oklahoma. He is the general editor of the Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory. His own books include Deconstructive Criticism (Columbia 1983), American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s (Columbia, 1988), which was a Choice Outstanding Book, as well as two smaller books on theory. Michael Löwy, was born in Brazil in 1938, and has lived in Paris since 1969. Presently Emerit Research Director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), his books and articles have been translated into 29 languages. Among his main publications are Ecosocialism: A radical alternative to the capitalist ecological catastrophe (2015), On Changing the World: Essays in Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin (2012), The Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx (2009), Fire Alarm. Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the concept of history’ (2005), and The International Ecosocialist Manifesto (with Joel Kovel) (2001). He is also a regular collaborator of the Brazilian Landless Peasant Movement. John Maerhofer teaches English and interdisciplinary studies in the City University of New York system. His book, Rethinking the Vanguard, was published in 2009. His recent article, "Can Starving People Go on Hunger Strike?" (a critical analysis of the Maoist Movement in India), is forthcoming in International Critical Thought. Courtney Maloney is Associate Professor of Writing & Humanities at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. She received her doctorate in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she studied with Dave Demarest alongside Joel Woller and Charles Cunningham. Her research has focused on the representation and self-representation of working-class people in photography, and explored the ways that photography and corporate publicity have impacted our collective understanding of organized labor. She is interested in “place” as a framework for investigating the intersections of culture, politics, and experience. Carl Grey Martin is an Associate Professor of English at Norwich University, where he teaches early English language and literature, as well as science fiction. His scholarship, largely focused on class and ideology in 15th-cent. literature, has appeared in journals including The Chaucer Review, Romanic Review, and Modern Philology. Sophia A. McClennen is Associate Director of the Pennsylvania State University's School of International Affairs and the Director of the Center for Global Studies. She has written ten books, two of which focus on satire and politics. In her weekly column for Salon she covers the intersections between media, culture, and politics. Jill McDonough is the winner of a 2014 Lannan Literary Fellowship and three Pushcart prizes, as well as the author of Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), Where You Live (Salt, 2012), and Reaper (Alice James, 2017). The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at UMass-Boston and directs 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online. Her fifth poetry collection, "Here All Night," is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Gregory Meyerson is a Professor in the English Department at North Carolina A and T University and has published a wide variety of Marxist essays on areas ranging from racism and fascism and debates around energy and environment to literary criticism. His last article was Epidemiology without Biology: False Paradigms, Unfounded Assumptions and Specious Statistics In Radiation Science, with Bill Sacks and Jeff Siegel (Biological Theory, June 2016, 69-101). He is an editor of Cultural Logic. Toby Miller is Research Professor of the Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside; Sir Walter Murdoch Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, Murdoch University; Profesor Invitado, Escuela de Comunicación Social, Universidad del Norte; Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd; and Director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London. José Paulo Netto was born in 1947 in Minas Gerais. He is the Professor Emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who has been a university professor in Brazil, Portugal and several Latin American countries. A follower of the Marxist intellectual tradition inaugurated by György Lukács, he is widely considered a central figure in the reception Lukács receives in Brazil. He has dozens of articles published in academic journals and books in the social sciences and history, the latest of which is entitled Pequena História da Ditadura Brasileira. 1964- 1985 [Brief History of Brazilian Dictatorhsip 1964-1985] (2014). He has been a political activist and the member of the Brazilian Communist Party [PCB] and, because of this, he was arrested and forced into exile during the last Brazilian dictatorship. Jeff Noonan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Windsor. He is the author of Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference (2003); Democratic Society and Human Needs (2006), and Materialist Ethics and Life Value (2012) as well as numerous articles, chapters, and reviews. He is also President of the University of Windsor Faculty Association, a position which gives him a front row seat for the contradictions of academic unionism. Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. His book with Sam Gindin, entitled The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire (2012) was awarded the Deutscher book prize in the UK and the Davidson book prize in Canada. Among his many other books are In and Out of Crisis: the Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (2010); Renewing Socialism: Transforming Democracy, Strategy and Imagination (2008) and The End of Parliamentary Socialism: From New Left to New Labour (2001). For the past three decades, he has been the editor of the internationally renowned annual volume, the Socialist Register. Alongside his social and political activism internationally and in Canada, he has been an engaged public intellectual, including recently through commentaries for The Guardian and frequent appearances on The Real News. Joseph G. Ramsey teaches at UMass Boston, where he is a newly elected member of the Faculty Staff Union Executive Committee, and organizes with the anti-austerity Coalition to Save UMB. He is the editor of the present volume on Scholactivism as well as the previous Cultural Logic / Works and Days collaboration, Culture and Crisis (2010, 2012), and was co-editor of Reconstruction 8.1, Class, Culture, and Public Intellectuals. His writing has appeared in the American Writers series, Counterpunch, Inside Higher Ed, Jacobin, and Lineages of the Literary Left, as well as Minnesota Review, Radical Teacher, Red Wedge, Slate, and Socialism and Democracy, where he also serves on the editorial board. His most recent article, "The Makings of a Heroic Mistake: Richard Wright's ‘Bright and Morning Star,’ Communism, and the Contradictions of Emergent Subjectivity," appears in Mediations 30.1. Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris. His ten books have won numerous prizes and appeared in fourteen languages. His next book, "The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist," will be published by Beacon Press in September 2017. Modhumita Roy is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University. She teaches Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora, as well as South Asian Literature, Literatures of Empire, and Critical Theory--Post-Colonial, Feminist, and Literary. Tony Menelik Van Der Meer, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the Co-Editor of the book State of the Race, Creating Our 21st Century: Where Do We Go From Here? Foreword by Assata Shakur (2004), Diaspora Press. Victor Wallis teaches in the Liberal Arts department at the Berklee College of Music (in Boston) and is the managing editor of Socialism and Democracy. He writes for several Left journals and websites. His book "Toward a Livable World: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism" is forthcoming from Political Animal Press in Toronto. Karim Wissa is a PhD student in the program in Literature at Duke University. Joel Woller is Assistant Professor of History at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, and has long been active in the Battle of Homestead Foundation. His publications include: “’Only in Exceptional Cases:’ The Steel Workers Organizing Committee Remembers the Homestead Strike,” Mediations 23(2), Spring 1998. Andrew Yale is an organizer with SEIU Local 73 as well as a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago and for The Odyssey Project, a Bard College Clemente Course in the Humanities. Gary Zabel teaches philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He has been politically active since participating in the movement against the war in Vietnam. He has been involved in numerous adjunct faculty unionization drives, is a founding member of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, and has published and spoken publicly about precarious labor in the academy in Canada and Europe as well as the United States. Ali Shezhad Zaidi is the Director of Publications at the Transformative Studies Institute. Zaidi was also the Vice President of the Southeast European Studies Association (2009-2013): . He currently teaches as an associate professor of humanities at the State University of New York at Canton. Zaidi has written extensively on higher education in New York, publishing in Against The Current, Z, New Politics, Monthly Review, Covert Action Quarterly, Dollars and Sense, Political Affairs, and New Politics. In 2000, his investigative reporting on medical experimentation at the University of Rochester won an honorable mention from Project Censored. 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