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Episode Synopsis
REIMAGINING EDUCATION #2"Within and Against the Neoliberal University" (featuring Manolo Callahan, John Foran, Keri Facer and Alessandra Pomarico) is the second in a series of podcasts produced by Firefly Frequencies reworking talks and conversations from the Re-imagining Education global gathering (March 2021).Manolo CallahanManolo Callahan’s work explores three interwoven areas: the US/Mexico border and borderlands historically and in the present; Indigenous struggles across the Americas including Zapatista struggles located in Chiapas; and convivial research, a community based research methodology that draws on engaged scholarship emerging from the Global South.John ForanScholar-activist-radical in the global climate justice movement, recovering sociologist, seeker of system alternatives with heart, member of the Eco Vista community and Eco Vista U, teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Keri FacerShe is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, works on the relationship between education, time, pasts-futures and change, as well as building deep collaborations between universities and the communities they are part of. She is currently planting a food forest, writing a book on living in time and trying to develop a network of ‘civic’ universities to mobilise their role as anchor institutions in local communities to address climate change.Alessandra PomaricoCurator of international and multidisciplinary artists’ residency programs at the intersection of arts, pedagogy, social issues, nano-politics, and the poetic of relationship in community building.Editing and mix: Silvia Maglioni & Graeme ThomsonREIMAGINING EDUCATION 2021For the last 200 years, many have worked to improve the education system and it has not been enough. What if we re-imagine higher education from the root?Hosted by the Ecoversities Alliance, and partnering communities from around the world, the Re-imagining Education Conference is a space for transformative educators to connect, re-imagine, design, and embody new approaches to higher education from within and beyond academia.See program and speakershttps://re-imagining.education/DOWNLOAD Stefano Harney and Fred Moten "THE UNDERCOMMONS: Fugitive Planning and Black Study"https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf
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