February 2012
5 posts
Occupy and Ideology
So the Occupy lesson went really well. The class was a little skeptical at first, but they seemed to warm up to the whole idea as the lesson progressed. Many of the students only knew of the Occupy movement from the Daily Show and Colbert Report, which didn’t surprise me. Now, I remember seeing and being frustrated by the Daily Show’s coverage of the protesters in Zuccotti Park and their whole...
“A contradiction arises between a seductive but alienating possessive...”
– David Harvey - “A Brief History of Neoliberalism”
“The categories of perception of the social world are, as regards their most...”
– Pierre Bourdieu (via ohhdamnamanda)
Teaching Occupy
Well, it is official. I have graduated. Now I just have another month or two of anxiously awaiting responses to graduate applications. *Fingers crossed* In the meantime, I’ve been invited by Westminster’s sociology department to teach a day on Occupy Wall Street. I’m really excited for it, but a little nervous about what kind of reaction it will get. Utah is a very interesting...