Finding Humanity in Basic Conversation While I “Re-member Exclusions”
Discussions about social change often focus on “the other” and changes that need to be made. Fine and Torres’ article “Remembering Exclusions” both defines and situates Participatory Action Research...
View ArticleIn Solidarity? Nos-otras? Contact zones?
We just got out of Social Movements class and were talking about what it’s truly means to work in solidarity with a group from the outside. We have a lot of questions about how we should be approaching...
View ArticleSLOW VIOLENCE, TURBO CAPITALISM & COUNTER STORYTELLING: REFLECTING ON WHOSE...
This is a repost from edwinmayorga.net On Tuesday, March 19th the Participatory Open, Online Course (POOC), Reassessing Inequality and Reimagining the 21st-Century: East Harlem Focus (#InQ13), held a...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship in East Harlem
After reading last week’s readings, the viewing of Whose Barrio?, and the panel discussion I was overwhelmed by the many questions and answers that the panelists brought up. I was mainly moved by...
View Articlechoosing the right words
Looking for some late night inspiration I turned to earlier blog posts and I have to say how impressed and moved I am by everyone’s writing. Like Bisola and Edwin, I was also intrigued last week when...
View ArticleR&R: From Virtual Public Spheres To Global Justice: A Critical Theory Of...
“As Marx so loudly proclaimed, and Foucault reiterated, domination fosters resistance” (Lagman, page 1). Is this the claim that the unconscious always resists domination? I dear to say that without a...
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