Afterword: Fugitive Praxis And The Unsettling Of The Imperial University
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2024
Published In
Political Activism In Colleges And Universities: Possibilities For Institutional Change Toward Social Justice
Abstract
In the fall of 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the heightened demands for justice following the murder of George Floyd, Swarthmore College joined the wave of political protests happening across university campuses through a strike led by the Black Affinity Coalition. The imperial university—enlivened by its managerial boards, profit-making interests and the work of its institutional agents—can be seen as “machinery that is intelligently designed—that knows how to replicate itself, knows how to evolve, knows how to adapt, even knows how to make its mechanisms seem normal and natural”. Embedded within higher education-related activism and research are questions regarding accountability. Yet, the notion of accountability Patel notes “has been so thoroughly co-opted by neoliberal projects of imperialism and social control that it has become all but synonymous with draconian top-down strategies that seek to measure in order to sanction and surveille”.
Published By
Routledge
Editor(s)
T. Cheuk, R. Quinn, and J. Conner
Recommended Citation
Edwin Mayorga, T. Cheuk, J. Conner, and R. Quinn.
(2024).
"Afterword: Fugitive Praxis And The Unsettling Of The Imperial University".
Political Activism In Colleges And Universities: Possibilities For Institutional Change Toward Social Justice.
DOI: 10.4324/9781032614328-8
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-education/182