Also timely, given that universities have been sites of struggle against the ongoing genocide in Gaza in retaliation for the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. The universities' implicit bargain with the capitalist ruling class of funding-for-workers, at the expense of an education-first model, has left these sites painfully vulnerable -- and sadly, largely ineffective at making material gains.
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Author: INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Subjects Gender and Sexuality > Feminism and …
The AIC [Academic Industrial Complex] framework brought renewed attention to the role of the academy in directly supporting criminal punishment systems and military industrial complexes. [2] At the same time, if non-profits have been essential sites for access to life-saving and sustaining resources, universities have remained important locations for generating critical dissent. In recent years, students and teachers have found that space shrinking and made vulnerable through attacks on critical and ethnic studies programs, centers, and faculty members; the elimination of tenure track lines and adjunctification of labor; and the cutting of state funds and increased privatization on the backs of students in the form of unbearable debt. [3]
— The Revolution Will Not Be Funded de Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
Also timely, given that universities have been sites of struggle against the ongoing genocide in Gaza in retaliation for the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. The universities' implicit bargain with the capitalist ruling class of funding-for-workers, at the expense of an education-first model, has left these sites painfully vulnerable -- and sadly, largely ineffective at making material gains.
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* La semaine prochaine, Coline Métrailler défend sa thèse de doctorat ! Elle porte sur la non-linéarité des récits des jeux vidéo, et l'articulation des personnages au sein de ceux-ci https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/soutenance-de-these-de-coline-metrailler/
* Le mois suivant, ce sera au tour de Loeva La Ragione ! Sa thèse propose une riche ethnographie des pratiques de jeu dans Guild Wars 2, et notamment de la place accordée au role-play dans ces pratiques https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/soutenance-de-these-de-loeva-la-ragione/
* Entre les deux, @loise_b et Isaac Pante traiteront de jeu de rôle lors du Festival Textures à Fribourg https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/festival-textures-a-fribourg/
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Congrats to all ERC grantees! Let's continue to keep an eye on blatant gender disparities in academia and support women and nonbinary people as much as we can 💪
It starts with everyday practices: invite more women and nonbinary people, don't burden them with admin, cite them!
Congrats to all ERC grantees! Let's continue to keep an eye on blatant gender disparities in academia and support women and nonbinary people as much as we can 💪
It starts with everyday practices: invite more women and nonbinary people, don't burden them with admin, cite them!
“We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails,” says Nanna Mik-Meyer, professor at Copenhagen Business School.
https://kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/women-end-doing-academic-housework
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