Guest Edited by Soniya Munshi and Craig Willse
Contributors include Ujju Aggarwal, Gabriel Arkles, Maile Arvin, Myrl Beam, Alisa Bierria, Avi Cummings, Hope Dector, Treva Ellison, Pooja Gehi, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Lani Hanna, Gillian Harkins, Priya Kandaswamy, Paul Kivel, Soo Ah Kwon, Colby Lenz, Edwin Mayorga, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Vero Ordaz, Dylan Rodríguez, Rori Rohlfs, Paula X. Rojas, Dean Spade, and Lee Ann S. Wang.
This issue of S&F Online looks at the nonprofit and the university as two key sites in which neoliberal social and economic formations are constituted and contested.
Emerging out of a 2009 meeting at the American Studies Association convened by Munshi and Willse and drawing on the theoretical and historical models articulated by INCITE! Women, Gender Non-conforming, and Trans People of Color Against Violence, the collection asks: What are the possibilities for transformative politics given the capacity of neoliberal capital to incorporate, absorb and/or neutralize demands for social justice?
Essays in this issue offer theoretical arguments grounded in case studies on a wide range of topics, including the role of civic engagement in women’s and ethnic studies programs, the constitution of community through nonprofits in and against Hawai’ian sovereignty movements, the reconstitution of privatized prison education programs in the wake of their defunding and dismantling by the state, and the commodification of “gay youth” in LGBT nonprofit worlds, among others.
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In addition to groundbreaking scholarship, this issue includes an exhibit from Interference Archive, a collaborative research project on mapping police violence, and an original video series, “Understanding the Nonprofit Industrial Complex,” featuring interviews with Christine Ahn, Trishala Deb, Kenyon Farrow, Reina Gossett, Shira Hassan, Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Imani Henry, Amber Hollibaugh, N’Tanya Lee, Andrea Ritchie, Dean Spade, Urvashi Vaid, Jason Walker, and Craig Willse.
Read the full issue at http://sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neoliberalism-in-the-academy-nonprofits-and-beyond.