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Review of "The University and Social Justice: Struggles across the Globe" edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally (Pluto Press / Between the Lines)
No full textIn this edited collection, Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally present reflections and analyses from scholar-activists in education studies, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies describing university-based and affiliated social movements. Through thirteen essays covering case studies in twelve countries, the anthology offers a broad review of student organizing against neoliberalization and more specifically, the privatization of higher education; intersectional and coalitional strategies imagined through these struggles; and alternative modes of knowledge production pre-figured in their organizing. Geographic and disciplinary breadth make the anthology a welcome addition to the growing corpus of (transnational) critical university studies
Book review: A. Choudry, D. Kapoor (Eds), NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
No full textBook review: A. Choudry, D. Kapoor (Eds), NGOization: Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects. London-New York: Zed Books, 2013
The Surveillance State: A Composition in Four Movements
No full textThe central question in this book: ‘what we did/didn’t, should/could learn from activist/movement experiences of security operations, surveillance, infiltration’ and such activities, presupposes some understanding of the architecture of power within which state surveillance operates. The architecture of power is always a concrete historical question. The world wars have formative influence on the architecture of power in the Allied states. At the turn of the twentieth century, faced with the collapse of capitalism and the world wars, the Allied states mobilized all of society to survive the existential threat to economy and state. In the process militarism became the organizing mechanism for the Allied states. Militarism integrated economic institutions, military and civilian arms of the state and civil society organizations to create a ‘warfare’ state. The warfare state forged during the world wars was not dismantled after the end of World War II. Instead the warfare state expanded to become gigantic military- industrial-technology-media complexes with global outreach and dependent on perpetual warfare. Surveillance in such a state is much more than an appendage of the state’s military and police functions.Rather it is embedded in the constitutional structures of post-War Allied states. Limiting understandings of the surveillance state to experiences of opposition movements and protests within the Allied states not only limits our understanding of surveillance but misdirects our understanding of militarism as the organizing mechanism characteristic of imperialism in the post-War era
Book review: The university and social justice: struggles across the globe edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally
No full textIn The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe, editors Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally offer a new collection exploring university-based activism and social justice movements around the world. With rich accounts that cover diverse repertoires of action and collective struggles, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of Higher Education across the globe, finds Shreya Urvashi. The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe. Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally (eds). Pluto Press. 2020
Book review: The university and social justice: struggles across the globe edited by Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally
No full textIn The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe, editors Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally offer a new collection exploring university-based activism and social justice movements around the world. With rich accounts that cover diverse repertoires of action and collective struggles, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of Higher Education across the globe, finds Shreya Urvashi. The University and Social Justice: Struggles Across the Globe. Aziz Choudry and Salim Vally (eds). Pluto Press. 2020
‘An act of struggle in the present’: History, education and political campaigning by South Asian anti-imperialist activists in Britain
No full textThis chapter will explore the importance that South Asian campaigning organisations in Britain placed on understanding the history of anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle, in developing their organisations and mobilising supporters. It will explore two distinct case studies. First, it will look at the way Asian Youth Movements in cities such as Bradford, Manchester and Sheffield educated their members and supporters about past and ongoing activism both in the UK and abroad during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The second case study will examine the work of the 1857 Committee, established in 2006 to counteract the hegemonic narratives in the UK and India on the 150th anniversary of the 1857 uprising in South Asia. Through these two moments we will reflect on the forms of action that were taken during differing political moments to consider how history has been a) harnessed as a tool through which contemporary campaigns were bolstered and supported; and b) how in moments which appeared quite bleak and in which campaigning work was limited, interrogating and challenging hegemonic histories served as a fulcrum around which progressive South Asian activists rearticulated ideas which challenged religious communal understandings of the past, reaffirmed the value of solidarity between the oppressed and through this process were able to offer a challenge to contemporary imperialist analyses of global events
The effect of blood around a flap pedicle on flap perfusion in an experimental rodent model.
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Book review: Just work? Migrant workers’ struggles today edited by Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo
No full textNew volume Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today , edited by Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo, gives a platform to the struggles of migrant workers propping up economies in the Global North and South through grounded, optimistic analysis built on first-hand experience. Paul Clewett finds this collection both a fascinating read and a welcome antidote to migration scholarship that has hitherto disproportionately focused on the West
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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