Anthony J. Nocella II
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., award-winning author and community organizer, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute of Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. Nocella is grounded in the fields of peace and conflict studies, criminology, justice studies, and education. He is internationally known for his innovative, transformative, and intersectional collaborations among fields of study, social movements, scholars, organizations, and community leaders.
Nocella has more than seven years experience teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in higher education. He has taught at Hamline University, St. Cloud State University, North Hennepin Community College, State University of New York Cortland, Le Moyne College, and Syracuse University. Nocella was a faculty advisor of PRIDE at Syracuse University; the Student Association on Terrorism and Security Analysis at Le Moyne College; Criminology Club and Meeting Advocacy with Dis/Ability at SUNY Cortland; and the Hip Hop Collective and Education Club at Hamline University.
Dr. Nocella has published more than 100 scholarly articles or book chapters and over 40 books that have been published in over 15 different publishers.
He co-founded and is the Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and the field of critical animal studies. Nocella has co-founded and is the Editor of the Peace Studies Journal. He is also a director of the Academy for Peace Education which provides community organizer, facilitation/mediation, and peacemaking workshops/trainings to college students in the field of peace and conflict studies. He also co-founded is the Executive Director of Save the Kids, a national fully-volunteer organization with more than ten chapters across the U.S. dedicated to alternatives to and the end of the incarceration of youth and youth violence. Nocella is also part of the Arissa Media Group editorial collective, a peer-reviewed social justice press and is the series co-editor of the Critical Animal Studies and Theory Book Series with Lexington Books.
For the last twelve years, Dr. Nocella has guest lectured, provided professional development trainings (in the area of equity and justice and conflict transformation and transformative justice), and facilitated youth workshops for hundreds of school districts, universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools, and many prisons and detention facilities around the U.S., such as Onondaga County School District, St. Cloud School District, Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Facility, Auburn Prison, Environmental Protection Agency, Brock University, UCLA, Hofstra University, New York University Law School, Rutgers University Law School, Boston College, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, University of Texas, Yale University, and Princeton University. He also co-founded a G.E.D. program in Auburn prison, served on the board of the American Friends Service Committee, and currently acts as a facilitator in adult prisons with the Alternatives to Violence Project and Executive Director of the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium.
Internationally, from 2000 to 2004, Nocella participated in peacemaking efforts with the Christian Peacemaker Teams and Mennonite Central Committee throughout South and Central America, especially Colombia.
Nocella has more than five years experience in office management, degree program administration, website and blog design and management, video editing, publicity (through social media), hosting and organizing (galas, conferences, debates, town hall meetings, workshops, Skype conferences, livestreaming, and webinars), and designing promotional materials such as brochures, merchandise, and flyers.
Areas of Expertise: justice, peace and conflict studies, social justice education, negotiation, school to prison pipeline, urban education, critical pedagogy, disability studies/pedagogy, environmental education/justice/studies, mediation, youth culture, critical criminology, transformative justice, hip hop studies, gender and sexuality studies, qualitative methodology, critical animal studies, and eco-ability.
More about Dr. Nocella at: www.anthonynocella.org
Supervisors: Dr. Richard Loder, Native American Studies and Sociology, Syracuse University, Dr. Micere Githae Mugo, Pan-African Studies, Syracuse University, Tucker B. Culbertson, J.D., College of Law, Syracuse University, Dr. Piers Beirne, University of Sothern Maine, Dr. A H. Peter Castro, Anthropology, Syracuse University, and Dr. Kishi Animashaun Ducre (Reader), Pan-African Studies, Syracuse University
Address: Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II
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PSET 270 D
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Nocella has more than seven years experience teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in higher education. He has taught at Hamline University, St. Cloud State University, North Hennepin Community College, State University of New York Cortland, Le Moyne College, and Syracuse University. Nocella was a faculty advisor of PRIDE at Syracuse University; the Student Association on Terrorism and Security Analysis at Le Moyne College; Criminology Club and Meeting Advocacy with Dis/Ability at SUNY Cortland; and the Hip Hop Collective and Education Club at Hamline University.
Dr. Nocella has published more than 100 scholarly articles or book chapters and over 40 books that have been published in over 15 different publishers.
He co-founded and is the Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and the field of critical animal studies. Nocella has co-founded and is the Editor of the Peace Studies Journal. He is also a director of the Academy for Peace Education which provides community organizer, facilitation/mediation, and peacemaking workshops/trainings to college students in the field of peace and conflict studies. He also co-founded is the Executive Director of Save the Kids, a national fully-volunteer organization with more than ten chapters across the U.S. dedicated to alternatives to and the end of the incarceration of youth and youth violence. Nocella is also part of the Arissa Media Group editorial collective, a peer-reviewed social justice press and is the series co-editor of the Critical Animal Studies and Theory Book Series with Lexington Books.
For the last twelve years, Dr. Nocella has guest lectured, provided professional development trainings (in the area of equity and justice and conflict transformation and transformative justice), and facilitated youth workshops for hundreds of school districts, universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools, and many prisons and detention facilities around the U.S., such as Onondaga County School District, St. Cloud School District, Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Facility, Auburn Prison, Environmental Protection Agency, Brock University, UCLA, Hofstra University, New York University Law School, Rutgers University Law School, Boston College, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, University of Texas, Yale University, and Princeton University. He also co-founded a G.E.D. program in Auburn prison, served on the board of the American Friends Service Committee, and currently acts as a facilitator in adult prisons with the Alternatives to Violence Project and Executive Director of the Central New York Peace Studies Consortium.
Internationally, from 2000 to 2004, Nocella participated in peacemaking efforts with the Christian Peacemaker Teams and Mennonite Central Committee throughout South and Central America, especially Colombia.
Nocella has more than five years experience in office management, degree program administration, website and blog design and management, video editing, publicity (through social media), hosting and organizing (galas, conferences, debates, town hall meetings, workshops, Skype conferences, livestreaming, and webinars), and designing promotional materials such as brochures, merchandise, and flyers.
Areas of Expertise: justice, peace and conflict studies, social justice education, negotiation, school to prison pipeline, urban education, critical pedagogy, disability studies/pedagogy, environmental education/justice/studies, mediation, youth culture, critical criminology, transformative justice, hip hop studies, gender and sexuality studies, qualitative methodology, critical animal studies, and eco-ability.
More about Dr. Nocella at: www.anthonynocella.org
Supervisors: Dr. Richard Loder, Native American Studies and Sociology, Syracuse University, Dr. Micere Githae Mugo, Pan-African Studies, Syracuse University, Tucker B. Culbertson, J.D., College of Law, Syracuse University, Dr. Piers Beirne, University of Sothern Maine, Dr. A H. Peter Castro, Anthropology, Syracuse University, and Dr. Kishi Animashaun Ducre (Reader), Pan-African Studies, Syracuse University
Address: Dr. Anthony J. Nocella II
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Educating for Action collects the voices of activists whose combined experience in confronting injustice has generated a wealth of key insights for creating social change. This practical guide explores such topics as:
Community activism and direct democracy
Conflict negotiation, communication, and rhetoric
Law, the educational system, and lifestyle activism
Social media skills, conference planning, and online organizing
Written in an inspirational tone, Educating for Action consciously straddles the line between street activism and classroom instruction. Bridging the gap between these two worlds makes for an engaging and instructive manual for social justice, helping students, teachers, and larger activist communities turn their idealism into action.
Jason Del Gandio is a scholar-activist and assistant professor of rhetoric and public advocacy at Temple University. He is the author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists.
Anthony J. Nocella II is a scholar-activist and senior fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline Law School. He is a long-time anti-racism, youth justice, prison abolition, hip hop, animal, disability, and Earth liberation activist and has published over fifty scholarly articles and book chapters and sixteen books.
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What People Are Saying About the Book:
Here we have a book that seeks to teach people (particularly those in ostensibly democratic societies) how to "disturb the peace." Increasingly, I'll stake my life on the idea that this is something Peace Education and other forms of critical pedagogy need to dedicate themselves to like never before if we are to avoid the worst of the catastrophic effects that now manifest as social and ecological crises across the face the planet.
-- Richard Kahn, Core Faculty in Education, Antioch University Los Angeles
Peace Education for Action is a much needed guide for activist communities that provides practicable strategies for both seasoned and new activists. With a variety of perspectives and authors, this text is should be on every radical's (and soon-to-be radical's) bookshelf.
-- Kim Socha, author of Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation
Peace Education For Action…is a book whose time has returned. Del Gandio and Nocella take us forward from the days of Saul Alinsky, and do so with a fresh outlook and a recipe that is rich and promising for a more durable positive outcome than methods used by many earlier activists. The focus on transformative justice reminds the reader that peace can only be attained through truly peaceful means.
-- John C. Alessio, Author of Social Problems and Inequality: Social Responsibility Through Progressive Sociology
The rhythm of activism is the beat of engaged citizenship and the pulse of a moral life: we open our eyes and pay attention to the world as it is; we allow ourselves to be astonished at the dazzling beauty as well as the unnecessary suffering all around us; we notice that next to the world as such is a world that could be or should be—a possible world. We join hands and act, we reflect and rethink, and we repeat for a lifetime. Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella II have assembled an essential companion for seasoned as well as aspiring activists. Peace Education for Action can lend a hand as activists nourish their social imaginations and build up their courage and commitment, cultivate creativity and inventiveness, grow both their patience and their audacity, find ways to be thoughtful and passionate in the same gesture, expand their sense of genuine solidarity. Peace Education for Action is a text to cram into your backpack alongside your water bottle and your Vitamin E—part of the toolkit for those of us working to create a world of joy and justice, a planet at peace and in balance, a future powered by love and fit for all children.
-- Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
In the community development and social change community, one of the continuing questions which arises is on materials; where to find them and how to access them. The book Peace Education For Action: Top Ten Strategies For Social Change answers that question soundly. With chapters on Communication and Rhetoric to The Politics of Planning, Nocella and Del Gandio deliver a sound and contextual book which will provide social change workers with a dense and excellent set of resources. This is the book for community development practices.
-- Daniel White Hodge, author of The Soul Of Hip Hop
Peace Education for Action is an impressive compendium that offers great insight from a stellar group of scholar-activists. The text is a rare combination of "how-to guide" grounded in theoretical context. Though aimed at youth activists, this is an excellent guide for any communnity organiztion or group searching for ways to improve their effectiveness. I can also imagine it serving as an invaluable resource for my undergraduate course in public policy and communnity action. This is exactly the right book, at the right time.
-- Sandy Grande, author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought
These days we desperately need more welcoming gateways to activism and more worthwhile reasons to get an education. Educating for Action takes on these issues. Wake up from the American dream and dedicate your life to struggling for a better reality. The future is what we struggle to make it.
-- Leslie James Pickering, former Earth Liberation Front Press Officer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Joy James
Preface
Peter McLaren
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella II
PART I. Starting With Me
1. Personal Lifestyle
Larry Butz
2. Communication and Rhetoric
Jason Del Gandio
PART II. Working with Others
3. Participation and Democracy
Joshua Ryan Holst
4. Conflict and Justice
Anthony J. Nocella II
PART III. Getting in the Streets
5. Community Organizing
Drew Winter
6. Activism
TBA
PART IV. Social Networks
7. Forums and Conferences
Jennifer Grubbs and Michael Loadenthal
8. Internet Social Media
Jeannette Russell
PART V. Institutional Change
9. Legal, Policy, and Lobbying
Dara Lovitz
10. Teaching Peace and Social Justice in the Classroom and School
Rita Verma
In this unprecedented and timely collection, some of the most influential voices in the world of law and animal rights examine the legalities of the AETA, highlight its repressive nature and the collusion between private interests and political legislation, and provide theoretical frameworks for understanding a variety of related issues. In a series of interviews, the book also gives animal advocates who have been convicted or directly affected by the AETA, including members of the AETA 4 and SHAC 7, an opportunity to speak for themselves. Ultimately, these writers show that the AETA is less about fighting terrorism and more about safeguarding corporate profit, and that it should be analyzed and resisted by everyone who believes in a better world.
Featuring: Piers Beirne, Sarahjane Blum, Heidi Boghosian, Walter Bond, Joseph Buddenberg, Sarat Colling, Kimberly E. McCoy, Jason Del Gandio, Scott DeMuth, Carol L. Glasser, Jennifer D. Grubbs, Josh Harper, Stephanie Jenkins, Jay Johnson, Eric Jonas, Michael Loadenthal, Dara Lovitz, Lillian M. McCartin, Anthony J. Nocella II, David Naguib Pellow, Will Potter, Dylan Powell, Ryan Shapiro, Wesley Shirley, John Sorenson, Vasile Stanescu, Brad J. Thomson, and Aaron Zellhoefer"
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PRAISE FOR "Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption"
This analysis of the AETA is a must read for those who seek to understand how and why forms of protest against structural and institutionalized oppression (everything from civil rights to anti-war) are criminalized, pathologized, and constructed as "terrorism." Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption shows how the AETA is not singular issue, but joins a long history of repressing social movements that seek to disrupt the machinery of capitalism and its commodification of sentient beings (human and non-human animals) to benefit a privileged demographic of consumer citizens.
- A. Breeze Harper, editor of Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak
"The Terrorization of Dissent" opens the curtain on how corporate greed and political bankruptcy collided to create the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. This intelligent compendium offers legal, political and theoretical analyses of how one law has vilified and punished an entire social justice movement. It's crucial reading for anyone who cares about our constitutional rights and the committed individuals whose only crime was drawing attention to the exploitation and cruel treatment of animals.
- Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
An excellent and very important book. It's vital that all those who are concerned for the protection of our fellow creatures understand why this appallling Act has come about and work together to try to circumvent it and eventually get rid of it.
- Ronnie Lee, founder of the Animal Liberation Front
As laws targeting specific social movements continue to be executed, Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption offers a timely and urgent challenge to the blatant unconstitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. The chapters in this collection should interest anyone who is concerned about freedom of expression, the U.S.’s growing plutocracy, and the continued exploitation of nonhuman animals.
- Dr. Kim Socha, author of Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation
The law serves primarily to enforce hegemonic consensus and to criminalize those in society that would dissent from the same. In a more perfect world there could be a participatory set of legal institutions that tend toward justice. But in contemporary America, we have instead generated a massive legal industrial complex that results in new threats to democracy, freedom, justice, and peace. At the very nadir of this nightmare sits the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. This book is therefore a welcomed jurisprudence with an attitude—a bellwether critique of how “terrorism” is defined, investigated, and prosecuted post-9/11.
– Dr. Richard Kahn, Core Faculty in Education, Antioch University Los Angeles
This chilling, well researched book lays out precisely how our own government, right here in these United States, acts against the interests of its citizens to protect the often illegal conduct of private businesses; how U.S. agencies have infiltrated social movements and invaded individuals’ lives and homes, harassing, harming and even destroying people and groups who pose a threat by exposing institutional wrongdoing. This book is a public service that will shock you into realizing that we live in a banana republic.
- Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA
This is the most important book about the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. If you are concerned at all about social justice, activism, or the U.S. constitution then you must read this book now. This book should be a required reading for every law school.
- Journal for Critical Animal Studies
Animal rights and the humane treatment of animals continues to slip the societal radar. Most in the public assume that animals have some types of law in places which protect animals. Thus, The Law Against Animals is a timely book which challenges us to not only be aware of these issue, but to engage in it. Anyone serious about any dimension of activism needs to read this book.
- Dr. Daniel White Hodge, North Park University, Author of The Soul Of Hip Hop: Rimbs, Timbs, & A Cultural Theology
In the United States, we have become ensepulchured in a shared mentality and enforced amnesia that enshrines injustice in the name of justice and that exalts inhumanity and torture in the name of national security. The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act forbids acts of liberation and acts of mercy and acts of social justice thereby enforcing and legitimizing the most heinous acts against non-human life, shackling humanity in a locked cage of cut-throat barbarism and savagery. This book is a powerful weapon in the struggle for justice!
- Dr. Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Today, arrays of corporate, political, and police force actors have worked in a concerted effort to criminalize a broad range of activities which could be construed to be part of an animal rights movement. This effort constitutes a war on dissent against institutions of animal cruelty, and it has been subsumed by the fictional “war on terror,” in what are essentially attempts to normalize the terror felt by the animals which constitute the raw materials of animal using industries . In reviewing this war on dissent, Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption focuses upon the 2006 Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a Bush-era statute, while providing the reader with a comprehensive picture of the use of police power on behalf of enshrined corporations. It’s an essential text for anyone wishing to broaden their knowledge of US government repression in this era.
- Dr. Samuel Fassbinder, co-editor of Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts
For decades, 'animal enterprises' have been teaming up and crying victim to Congress in efforts to create special protections against those of us struggling for animal liberation. One result is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act – a bold step deeper into fascism where the thought crime of animal liberation earns us extraordinary attention from law enforcement and disproportionate legal consequences. Bringing together several essential voices and spanning the divide between activist and academic, this volume puts an important focus on the deplorable lengths a sadistic industry will go to in efforts to satisfy its greed.
- Leslie James Pickering, author of Mad Bomber Melville
With the rise of the corporate university and the academic industrial complex, colleges and universities throughout the United States are becoming monitored, armed, gated, and contracted out in the name of security. Policing the Campus is a collection of essays by activist academics and campus organizers from a variety of fields and movements. The book fully explores how higher education has entered a state of academic repression. In this new Occupy Wall Street era, higher education mirrors the problems that plague urban schools in poor communities, including metal detectors, random locker searches, drug-sniffing police dogs, in-class arrests, and security guards at every major entrance. Policing the Campus is a wake-up call to protect higher education as a bastion of free thought, strategy, and challenge for the 99%, and not preserve it as the privilege of the elite 1%.
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Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
Edited By: Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword: This Is Your Mind on Lockdown
Christian Parenti
Introduction: Canary in the Coal Mine
David Gabbard
PART I.
CAMPUS POLICE
1. Arrests and Repression as a Logic of Neoliberalism
Jason Del Gandio
2. Repression of Student Activism on College
Wesley Strong
3. Policing College Campuses: Race, Social Control, and the Securitizing of College Campuses
Daniel White Hodge
4. Policed Pedagogy: Controlling and Dominating Classrooms, Curriculum, and Courses
Kim Socha
5. Of Accountablity, Surveillance, and Fear: Speaking Out and Losing My Job
Barbara Madeloni
PART II.
THE SURVEILLED CAMPUS
6. Cameras and ID Card Swipes:
Privacy and the Cultivation of the Virtual Self
Richard Van Heertum
7. Socio-Technical Developments in Campus Securitization: Building and Resisting the Policing Apparatus
Ben Brucato and Luis A. Fernandez
8. We Are All Hokies: Surveillance Culture and Communication Technologies on a Post–Virginia Tech Campus
Caroline Kaltefleiter
9. Political Research: Scholarship as Terrorism
David Pellow and Scott DeMuth
10. The College Campus as Panopticon:
How Security and Surveillance Are Undermining Free Inquiry
Joe Lewis
PART III.
FROM DEFENDING PUBLIC EDUCATION TO THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
11. Militant Privatization: The UC–Davis Pepper-Spray Incident
Sarah Augusto and Julie Setele
12. Higher Ed on a Slippery Slope: Pulling It Back from the Brink of Tyranny
Maura Stephens
13. Occupy Colleges: The Resurgence of U.S. Radical Student Activism
Ryan Thomson and Natalia Abrams
14. Faculty Should Join with Occupy Movement Protesters
on College Campuses
Henry Giroux
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK:
Policing the Campus should enlighten, enrage, and empower us all to confront the militarization of higher education and transform our colleges and universities into what they are supposed to be: spaces of learning and liberation.
— Dr. David Naguib Pellow, Don Martindale Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota and co-author (with Lisa Park) of “The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden”
We live in a time of unprecedented clampdown on student dissent and ‘policed pedagogy,’ super-surveillance at colleges across the planet. This book, concentrating on realities of repression largely in the U.S., will galvanize researchers elsewhere to investigate and struggle against similar forms of academic fascism engulfing campuses worldwide.
— Bill Templer, Independent Scholar, Bulgaria
As one who has had his classes infiltrated over the years by students from right wing organizations -— solely for the purpose of disrupting (and reporting on) my course content, I cannot say enough about the timeliness and importance of this excellent work. Academic freedom has been under attack for many decades and in many ways. Much ground has been lost that needs to be regained. Hopefully this book will contribute toward the accomplishment of that goal.
— Dr. John C. Alessio, Former SBS Dean, Minnesota State Mankato, author of “Social Problems and Inequality: Social Responsibility through Progressive Sociology”
Nocella and Gabbard have done it again! Policing the Campus minces no words and pulls no punches to focus the scholarly microscope on the repression and suppression of intellectual thought and action. Faculty and students alike will view their educational opportunities and work in a new light through this startling exposé of academic policing.
— Dr. Julie Andrzejewski, Professor, Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education
In Policing the Campus, Gabbard and Nocella make a critical and radical intervention that challenges the policing and surveillance of higher education. If the influence of military, corporations, and law enforcement— and the creation of a police state on every campus— go unchecked, it will be impossible for democratic and free education to flourish.
— Sarat Colling, Institute for Critical Animal Studies
In the ever changing climate of higher education, the policies related to this system still reflect of a cultural climate that does little to recognize the diverse community in which higher education has become. The Book, Policing the Campus, push us to look at the climate of higher education and the response needed to move both our society and educational instruction to reflect and act in a more cultural responsive manner.
— Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks, Associated Dean of the School of Education, Hamline University and Editor of the Journal for Critical Urban Education
A must read for professors, students, staff, administrators, and the general public concerned about the future of education and democracy. Finally, here is a book that examines the police state that is growing on every campus.
— Dr. Priya Parmar, author of Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Artist KRS-ONE
Policing the Campus is a pointed collection that takes aim at the disciplinary logics and practices that increasingly dominate higher education. The essays that explore the relationships between campus activism and the Occupy movement are especially timely, but the entire book is a fruitful contribution to the debate over the freedom of the university in the 21st Century.
— Zack Furness, editor of Punkademics
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This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement that intersects with other movements for positive change. Written by a collection of internationally respected scholar-activists, each chapter expands upon the theory and practice underlying the total liberation approach, the roles of academics and activists, and the ten principles of CAS. With apolitical animal studies and exploitative animal research dominating higher education, this book offers a timely counter-narrative that demands the liberation of all oppressed beings and the environment. Defining Critical Animal Studies will interest educators, students, activists, community members, and policy makers seeking accessible theory that can be put into action.
Defining Critical Animal Studies: An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation
Edited by: Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha, and Atsuko Matsuoka
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD:
David Nibert
PREFACE:
Ronnie Lee
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION:
The Emergence of Critical Animal Studies: The Rise of Intersectional Animal Liberation
Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha, and Atsuko Matsuoka,
PART I: INTERDEPENDENCY
CHAPTER ONE:
An Introduction to Anthropocentrism, Humanism, and Contemporary Animal Ethics
Adam Weitzenfeld and Melanie Joy
CHAPTER TWO:
Ecological Defense for Animal Liberation: A Holistic Understanding of the World
Amy J. Fitzgerald and David Pellow
PART II: UNITY
CHAPTER THREE:
Until All Are Free: Total Liberation through Revolutionary Decolonization, Groundless Solidarity, and a Relationship Framework
Sarat Colling, Sean Parson, and Alessandro Arrigoni
CHAPTER FOUR:
One Struggle
Stephanie Jenkins and Vasile Stanescu
PART III: CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP
CHAPTER FIVE:
The Ivory Trap: Bridging the Gap Between Activism and the Academy
Carol Glasser and Arpan Roy
CHAPTER SIX:
Critical Animal Studies as an Interdisciplinary Field: A Holistic Approach to Confronting Oppression
Kimberly Socha and Les Mitchell
PART IV: RADICAL EDUCATION
CHAPTER SEVEN:
Radical Humility: Toward a More Holistic Critical Animal Studies Pedagogy
Lauren Corman and Tereza Vandrovcová
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Engaged Activist Research: Challenging Apolitical Objectivity
Lara Drew and Nik Taylor
PART V: TAKING IT TO THE STREETS
CHAPTER NINE:
From the Classroom to the Slaughterhouse: Animal Liberation By Any Means Necessary
Jennifer Grubbs and Michael Loadenthal
CHAPTER TEN:
Taking it to the Streets: Challenging Systems of Domination From Below
Richard White and Erika Cudworth
AFTERWORD:
From Animal Oppression to Animal Liberation: A Historical Reflection and the Growth of Critical Animal Studies
Karen Davis
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES READER:
"Defining Critical Animal Studies is the type of book that everyone should read, not just animal rights activists, but also the naysayers, fence-sitters, and uninformed. And why? Because this book is educational, enlightening, and transformative. It literally alters how we see and understand the issues of human and nonhuman relations, equality, democracy, food, consumption, activism, and social movements. And the book accomplishes this task by practicing what it preaches: bringing together a variety of scholars and activists, both old and new, that address the theoretical, practical, political, and personal intersections of animal liberation."
-Dr. Jason Del Gandio, author of "Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists"
"Through their work in this excellent volume, the editor and contributors give me hope that perhaps all is not lost for our species. But then I think, what kind of society marginalizes, harasses, and surveils these kinds of people as terrorists, but valorizes and rewards the real radicals and the real terrorists whose blood-lust for profits has normalized the systematic torture, oppression, and genocide of creatures unfortunate enough not to have been born human? As long as the latter group retains the backing of state violence, they'll continue super-sizing us toward extinction."
-Dr. David Gabbard, professor of Education, Boise State University
"Defining Critical Animal Studies comes at a moment when the devastating effects of climate change, the loss of species in the current 6th mass extinction, the overconsumption of the earth’s resources, endless toxic wars, and the exponential increase in human population are converging far more quickly than scientists predicted to create a multitude of crises – not in the distant future – but right here and now. This book reveals the necessity of reframing social justice and animal rights thought to forge new visions and creative movements to end human and corporate domination and exploitation of other humans, other forms of life, and the Earth."
-Dr. Julie Andrzejewski, Professor, St. Cloud State University
"This is a must read for anyone concerned with the interconnectedness of struggles for justice and liberation. It is against single-issue politics. It is for the rights of all animals, irrespective of species, age, sex, race, class and ability. What an exciting book!"
-Dr. Piers Beirne, author of "Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships"
As radical means “root,” Defining Critical Animal Studies is a radical book that explores the social, historical, and political roots underlying the oppression and exploitation of human and nonhuman animals alike. The book is also radical in advocating for the connection between scholarship and activism, and in promoting interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to “the question of the animal.” Students, scholars, activists, and citizens interested in engaging social justice across the species boundary will find these essays confronting many of the key issues of the twenty-first century, where what is at stake is survival itself.
-Dr. Dan Featherston, Assistant Professor, Temple University, and Editor, Lexington Critical Animal Studies Book Series
"Critical Animal Studies is a spreading academic discipline that brings much-needed activist and radical perspectives to classrooms globally, just the kind of thing that breathes life and real substance into higher education."
-Leslie James Pickering, former Earth Liberation Front Press Officer
"There is an urgent need for a broader analysis in the animal liberation movement. The contributors to Defining Critical Animal Studies grapple with questions our movement will have to engage in in order to move forward."
-Erin Marcus, Event Coordinator and Co-Founder, Open the Cages Alliance
"Finally, a collection of work that details the rapidly growing field of Critical Animal Studies. Scholars and activists will find much-needed intersectional analysis that calls for nonhuman animal liberation, dismantlement of human oppression and the end of environmental exploitation. Defining Critical Animal Studies should not be read by anyone who wishes to continue the status quo."
-Jessica Ison, Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania, Director"
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From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
Edited By: Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
William Ayers
Preface
Frank Hernandez
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction –
Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall
PART I.
THE RISE OF AN IMPRISONING YOUTH CULTURE
CHAPTER ONE
Criminalizing Education: Zero Tolerance Policies, Police in the Hallways, and the School to Prison Pipeline
Nancy A. Heitzeg
CHAPTER TWO
The Schoolhouses as Jailhouses
Annette Fuentes
CHAPTER THREE
Changing the Lens: Moving Away from the School to Prison Pipeline
Damien Sojoyner
PART II.
TARGETING YOUTH
CHAPTER FOUR
Punishment Creep and the Crisis of Youth in the Age of Disposability
Henry Giroux
CHAPTER FIVE
Targets for Arrest
Jesselyn McCurdy
CHAPTER SIX
Red Road Lost: A Story Based on True Events
Four Arrows
CHAPTER SEVEN
Emerging from Our Silos: Coalition Building for Black Girls
Maisha Winn and Stephanie Franklin
PART III.
SPECIAL EDUCATION IS SEGREGATION
CHAPTER EIGHT
Warehousing, Imprisoning and Labeling Youth, “Minorities”
Nekima Levy-Pounds
CHAPTER NINE
Who wants to be Special? Pathologization and the Preparation of Bodies for Prison
Deanna Adams and Erica Meiners
CHAPTER TEN
The New Eugenics: Challenging Urban Education and Special Education and for a Promise of Hip Hop Pedagogy
Anthony J. Nocella II and Kim Socha
PART IV.
BEHIND THE WALLS
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Prisons of Ignorance
Mumia Abu-Jamal
CHAPTER TWELVE
At the End of the Pipeline: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate the Incarcerated?
Deborah Appleman, Ezekiel Caligiuri, and Jon Vang
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Transformative Justice and Hip Hop Activism in Action
Anthony J. Nocella II
PART V.
TRANSFORMATIVE ALTERNATIVES
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Back on the Block: Community Re-entry and the Re-integration of Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Don C. Sawyer III and Daniel White Hodge
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Youth in Transition and School Re-entry: Process, Problems and Preparation
Anne Burns Thomas
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Dialogue on School Policy from a Parent of Incarcerated Youth
Letitia Basford, Bridget Borer, and Joe Lewis
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Youth of Color Fight Back: Transforming Our Communities
Emilio Lacques and Leslie Mendoza
Afterword
Bernardine Dohrn
Contributors’ Biographies
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK:
"An impressive contribution to policy discussions on the facts and myth of school violence and safer schools for children by notable experts and scholar-activists. The contributors demonstrate effectively that in the post Columbine era, political litmus tests of “zero tolerance” amount to “zero logic”— they represent imprisonization and militarization strategies of staggering proportions. Helpfully, authors point to alternative, peaceful models, to schools that opt out of “zero tolerance” and refuse to dehumanize children of color. An important book for anybody concerned about the state of education in the United States."
- Dr. Mechthild Nagel, co-editor of "Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality"
"How did we become a society that handcuffs its young and warehouses them in penal institutions instead of educating them? From Education to Incarceration answers that questions and offers an intelligently crafted overview of how ill-advised and inhumane practices and policies in the United States have betrayed generations of young persons, with suggestions for how we can upend these transgressions. Educators, attorneys, youth organizers and many others write with authority and conviction in this timely, relevant and eminently readable book."
- Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
"This compelling collection of voices of radical educators could not arrive at a more urgent time. It serves as a clenched fist with the power to break ideological chains. Read it, and take back our schools!"
- Dr. Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles
"Activists oppose oil pipelines as environmental death sentences; they confront transport that pushes profits and products before life with the clear understanding that to destabilize a healthy environment is suicidal. The school to prison pipeline is also life-threatening: There is the free, vibrant child who blossoms; there is the caged, captive child who withers. From Education to Incarceration reminds us that the only adequate response to children's exploitation and violation, in school and out, is to protect our most precious natural resources with profound courage and love."
- Dr. Joy James, author of "Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture"
"State Property—that’s what you are in prison, and that’s what you are in school. This volume explains why one leads to the other and gives on-the-ground tactics to end the schooling structures that feed our shameful prison nation. Read this book and “put your bodies upon the gears.”
- Dr. Emery Petchauer, author of "Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives: Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment"
"The authors, activists, and educators who gather their voices for From Education to Incarceration paint a clear, devastating picture of the way systems and the people who profit from their corruption create and then target disenfranchised youth. But what makes this book unique is that they do more: they equip us with the tools to fight back. That is invaluable, and why everybody who cares about youth should read this book."
- Dr. Paul C. Gorski, author of "Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap"
"School-to-prison pipeline is not a metaphor for research, it describes the brutal realities of imprisonment and the injustice, impoverishment and racism integral to it. The activists and educators collaborating in this powerful project help us understand how the once dystopian prospects of prisons-for-profit, the normalisation of surveillance, the criminalisation of youth and routine legal violence have become part of everyday experience, albeit one partially hidden from advantaged groups."
Dr. Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University
The criminalization of youth behavior is a form violence and oppression common mainly at poor school communities. This much needed book exposes these practices and we hope it will contribute to put an end to the school to prison pipeline.
- Dr. César A. Rossatto, editor of "Teaching for a Global Community: Overcoming the Divided and Conquer Strategies of the Oppressor"
"Nocella, Parmar, and Stovall have assembled an impressive group of authors for this amazing collection. While the fearful defenders of corporate rule will condemn the critical linkage of scholarship and activism represented here, anyone who still believes in a humanist vision of hope will find these essays invaluable for contemplating the scale of the challenges ahead."
- Dr. David Gabbard, co-editor of "Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools"
"Public schooling is divided along razor sharp lines. Schools do skills training, and depending on where a child is, some limited intellectual training. In public schools, the key issues of life: work, production and reproduction, rational knowledge, and freedom, are virtually illegal. The shorting machine of schools serves to train the next generation of workers from pre-med or pre-law in affluent neighbourhoods, to pre-middle class teacher training and for many in urban and rural areas pre-military schooling and pre-prison education. Contributors to Education to Incarceration describe and decontruct how for many students the promise of public education is merely bigger cages and longer chains."
- Dr. E. Wayne Ross, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia
As a social worker that mentors and consults youth on probation, I have been in desperate need of a book that articulates all the problems of schools and the juvenile justice system to city policy makers. From Education to Incarceration is a must read for educators and policy makers and a 101 manual for community organizer working with youth to dismantle once and for all the school to prison pipeline.
- Joanna Lowry, Social Worker, Neighborhood House
This is the academic Age of the Neoliberal Arts. Campuses-as places characterized by democratic debate and controversy, wide ranges of opinion typical of vibrant public spheres, and service to the larger society-are everywhere being creatively destroyed in order to accord with market and military models befitting the academic-industrial complex. While it has become increasingly clear that facilitating the sustainability movement is the great 21st century educational challenge at hand, this book asserts that it is both a dangerous and criminal development today that sustainability in higher education has come to be defined by the complex-friendly "green campus" initiatives of science, technology, engineering and management programs. By contrast, Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts takes the standpoints of those working for environmental and ecological justice in order to critique the unsustainable disciplinary limitations within the humanities and social sciences, as well as provide tactical reconstructive openings toward an empowered liberal arts for sustainability. Greening the Academy thus hopes to speak back with a collective demand that sustainability education be defined as a critical and moral vocation comprised of the diverse types of humanistic study that will benefit the well-being of our emerging planetary community and its numerous common locales.
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"WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT GREENING THE ACADEMY
The necessity of linking together single issue social justice pursuits cannot be overstated, nor can the crucial role higher education must play in helping to solve international social justice dilemmas. Greening of the Academy provides a much-needed analysis focusing on the importance of these issues as a means to progress global peace and justice issues. A must read for anyone seriously interested in making a difference in the world.
- Craig Rosebraugh, Author of Burning Rage of a Dying Planet
Many of the most important forces for social change in human history have taken root in our universities, and today the academy is a crucial site where scholars are working to integrate ecological sustainability and social justice. Greening the Academy is a clarion call for deep green approaches to thinking, teaching, research, and action that can make a dramatic and positive difference for the future of all species.
- Dr. David Naguib Pellow,
Author of Garbage Wars:
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
Critical, crucial, and challenging, this book initiates a dialogue essential to the survival of our planet and all the species on it, including our own. Ignored for far too long by leaders of the major social institutions around the world, this book poses the question of whether the academy will belatedly tackle the urgent policies and actions necessary to ameliorate the ecological destruction wrought by predatory capitalism. University Centers for Teaching and Learning should use this book to generate meaningful discussions of curriculum transformation wherever possible.
- Dr. Julie Andrzejewski,
Co-Director, Social Responsibility Masters Program,
St. Cloud State University
Greening the Academy breaks through barriers that continue to enervate higher education's contribution to environmental education and ecological justice. By connecting radical "cognitive praxis" and authentic Indigenous perspectives to a variety of relevant topics, it offers educators motivation and maps for helping us all regain our lost balance before it is too late.
- Four Arrows,
Editor of Unlearning the Language of Conquest:
Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
This is an important and urgent book that represents a landmark for higher education. It is a book that must be heeded, and, more importantly acted upon.
- Dr. Peter McLaren,
Author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
Higher education plays an increasingly important role globally in determining responses to human-induced environmental change. Greening the Academy shows us that it is crucial that educational policy, curriculum, institutional practice, and scholarly research go beyond greenwashing business as usual and instead engage critically with environmental issues. The book highlights how environmental concerns are not only the purview of the sciences but are centrally a result of cultural and economic practices and priorities, and thus must be engaged interdisciplinarily and in relation to community and place. To change the path we have set for the planet, it will take collaboration and persistence; this book offers hope in moving forward.
- Dr. Marcia McKenzie,
Editor of Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education
From the Back Cover
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Bill McKibben
Introduction
Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Samuel Fassbinder
1. Greening Education - Samuel Fassbinder / 2. Greening Criminology - Piers Beirne and Nigel South / 3. Greening Sociology - Kishi Animashaun Ducre / 4. Greening Political Science - Timothy Luke / 5. Greening Philosophy - Steven Best / 6. Greening Economics - Miriam Kennet and Michele Gale De Oliveira / 7. Greening Geography - Donna Houston / 8. Greening History - Eva Swidler / 9. Greening Anthropology - Brian McKenna / 10. Greening Communication - Tema Milstein / 11. Greening Literature - Corey Lewis / 12. Greening Dis-Ability - Anthony J. Nocella II / 13. Greening Feminism - Greta Gaard
Afterword: Can Higher Education Take Climate Change as Seriously as the CIA and the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London?
David A. Greenwood" "
Calling on sources as venerable as Thomas Aquinas and as current as the Patriot Act—and, in some cases, personal experience—the contributors explore the history of civil disobedience and sabotage, and examine the philosophical and cultural meanings of words like "terrorism," "democracy" and "freedom," in a book that ultimately challenges the values and assumptions that pervade our culture. Contributors include Robin Webb, Rod Coronado, Ingrid Newkirk, Paul Watson, Karen Davis, Bruce Friedrich and others.
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Review
At a time when it is increasingly more difficult to find insightful and accessible work challenging the structural and ideological foundations of neoliberal economic savagery, The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination provides a key resource for such a task. This is a wide ranging and thoughtful book that not only critically analyzes the deepening and myriad forms of global market authoritarianism but also offers the theoretical tools to challenge it. A must read for anyone concerned about the promise of a real democracy and the economic, political, and cultural forces subverting it.
— Henry Giroux, McMaster University and author of Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and The Challenge of the New Media
An excellent, well-researched, and richly informed compendium on the nature of global exploitation and power, a nourishing corrective to the vapid evasions we are usually fed.
— Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism (2011) and God and His Demons (2010)
In this book, leading American radical scholars provide important insights into interlocking networks of power under global capitalism. This fine collection of essays is a useful tool for those seeking to understand and alter the corporate structures that dominate our world.
— John Sorenson, Chair, Department of Sociology, Brock University
This penetrating, insightful book written by a collection of the world's most prominent public intellectuals, is a skilled combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of what the contributors term the 'global industrial complex'. The authors combine scholarship with insight, erudition with moral passion as they critique the fundamental direction in which our world is moving financially, politically and economically. The conclusions are radical and profound. No activist, academic or student can afford to ignore their arguments.
— Susan L. Thomas, Director, Gender and Women's Studies; Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science, Hollins University
The Global Industrial Complex makes an immense contribution to the literature by engaging the key thoughts and ideas of some of the most important, influential and outspoken public intellectuals of our time. In doing so the book provides not only a searing and devastating critique of contemporary ‘capitalist' society, but also engages in a full frontal assault on the poverty of imagination evident in those who refuse to believe that there are real alternatives, and that active resistance is necessary to achieve them. It deserves to be read widely.
— Richard White, editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies
From the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction by Steven Best
Chapter One: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours by Noam Chomsky
Chapter Two: The Corporate War Economy by Carl Boggs
Chapter Three: The Security Industrial Complex by Ward Churchill
Chapter Four: The Media-Military Industrial Complex by Toby Miller
Chapter Five: The Criminal (Justice) Industrial Complex by Mechthild Nagel
Chapter Six: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex by
Andrea Smith
Chapter Seven: Higher Education's Industrial Model by Cary Nelson
Chapter Eight: The Agricultural Industrial Complex by Vandana Shiva
Chapter Nine: Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial Complex by David Nibert
Chapter Ten: Bad For Your Health: The U.S. Medical Industrial Complex Goes Global by
Asif Ismail
Chapter Eleven: College Sports: It's All About the Money! by Earl Smith and Angela Hattery
Chapter Twelve: Driving to Carmageddon: Capitalism, Transportation, and the Logic of
Planetary Crisis by Michael Dawson
Afterword by Peter McLaren
Review
“This is an important text that sheds a powerful new light on the exploitation industry we have come to know as Hollywood. It is a book that demands a close reading.”
--Peter McLaren, Professor of Urban Schooling, University of California, Los Angeles
“A rich and varied collection of commentaries, offering insightful critiques and sociological sensibilities. Of interest to ordinary film buffs and cinematic specialists alike.”
--Michael Parenti, author of Make-Believe Media and Contrary Notions
“For readers of Hollywood’s Exploited, the wisdom will be gained, not received. Against conventional grains, this is an anthology of thoughtful inquiries and tough-minded assessments – challenging us to think anew, and more deeply, about what we see in movies.”
--Norman Solomon, author of The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media; War Made Easy; and The Trouble with Dilbert
“This smart collection reminds us that whatever reality we might observe and investigate is merely the starting point of thought, struggle, and action; standing directly next to whatever the case may be is always what the case could be or should be. Frymer, Kashani, Nocella, and Van Heertum have assembled a mighty chorus urging us to go beneath surface meanings and instant impressions, official policies and commercial messages, political propaganda, controlling myths, received wisdom and the dogma of common sense. We begin to understand, then, the root causes and social context of the taken-for-granted all around us. This is a call-to-arms.”
--William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago and author of To Teach
“This book offers the clearest evidence yet of how a supposedly ‘liberal’ Hollywood trades in racial, sexual, and other stereotypes as a matter of course, and why such portrayals of marginalized and otherwise disempowered groups have a profound impact on the public's appreciation of the various forms of social and political discrimination they still face.”
--Mark LeVine, Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of California, Irvine and author of Why They Don't Hate Us and Heavy Metal Islam
About the Author
Benjamin Frymer is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University.
Tony Kashani is Humanities Professor in the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & University.
Anthony J. Nocella, II is completing his doctoral work at Syracuse University and teaches classes in Sociology and Criminology at Le Moyne College and SUNY Cortland.
Richard Van Heertum is Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at CUNY/College of Staten Island.
As the destruction of nature reaches new extremes, resistance becomes ever more militant. Radical environmental groups are front page news. From laboratory bombings to the destruction of ski resorts, this emerging new militancy has been steadily upping the political ante. Authorities have responded in kind, handing down unprecedented heavy prison sentences for acts of property destruction. Congressional committees have been convened, the FBI has put revolutionary environmentalists at the top of their domestic terrorism list, and the "terrorists" themselves promise bigger and more spectacular assaults in the future. This anthology features a range of voices—from academics to armed revolutionaries—that explore this new form of political struggle. The first book of it’s kind on this increasingly important topic!
Papers by Anthony J. Nocella II
Educating for Action collects the voices of activists whose combined experience in confronting injustice has generated a wealth of key insights for creating social change. This practical guide explores such topics as:
Community activism and direct democracy
Conflict negotiation, communication, and rhetoric
Law, the educational system, and lifestyle activism
Social media skills, conference planning, and online organizing
Written in an inspirational tone, Educating for Action consciously straddles the line between street activism and classroom instruction. Bridging the gap between these two worlds makes for an engaging and instructive manual for social justice, helping students, teachers, and larger activist communities turn their idealism into action.
Jason Del Gandio is a scholar-activist and assistant professor of rhetoric and public advocacy at Temple University. He is the author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists.
Anthony J. Nocella II is a scholar-activist and senior fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline Law School. He is a long-time anti-racism, youth justice, prison abolition, hip hop, animal, disability, and Earth liberation activist and has published over fifty scholarly articles and book chapters and sixteen books.
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What People Are Saying About the Book:
Here we have a book that seeks to teach people (particularly those in ostensibly democratic societies) how to "disturb the peace." Increasingly, I'll stake my life on the idea that this is something Peace Education and other forms of critical pedagogy need to dedicate themselves to like never before if we are to avoid the worst of the catastrophic effects that now manifest as social and ecological crises across the face the planet.
-- Richard Kahn, Core Faculty in Education, Antioch University Los Angeles
Peace Education for Action is a much needed guide for activist communities that provides practicable strategies for both seasoned and new activists. With a variety of perspectives and authors, this text is should be on every radical's (and soon-to-be radical's) bookshelf.
-- Kim Socha, author of Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation
Peace Education For Action…is a book whose time has returned. Del Gandio and Nocella take us forward from the days of Saul Alinsky, and do so with a fresh outlook and a recipe that is rich and promising for a more durable positive outcome than methods used by many earlier activists. The focus on transformative justice reminds the reader that peace can only be attained through truly peaceful means.
-- John C. Alessio, Author of Social Problems and Inequality: Social Responsibility Through Progressive Sociology
The rhythm of activism is the beat of engaged citizenship and the pulse of a moral life: we open our eyes and pay attention to the world as it is; we allow ourselves to be astonished at the dazzling beauty as well as the unnecessary suffering all around us; we notice that next to the world as such is a world that could be or should be—a possible world. We join hands and act, we reflect and rethink, and we repeat for a lifetime. Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella II have assembled an essential companion for seasoned as well as aspiring activists. Peace Education for Action can lend a hand as activists nourish their social imaginations and build up their courage and commitment, cultivate creativity and inventiveness, grow both their patience and their audacity, find ways to be thoughtful and passionate in the same gesture, expand their sense of genuine solidarity. Peace Education for Action is a text to cram into your backpack alongside your water bottle and your Vitamin E—part of the toolkit for those of us working to create a world of joy and justice, a planet at peace and in balance, a future powered by love and fit for all children.
-- Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
In the community development and social change community, one of the continuing questions which arises is on materials; where to find them and how to access them. The book Peace Education For Action: Top Ten Strategies For Social Change answers that question soundly. With chapters on Communication and Rhetoric to The Politics of Planning, Nocella and Del Gandio deliver a sound and contextual book which will provide social change workers with a dense and excellent set of resources. This is the book for community development practices.
-- Daniel White Hodge, author of The Soul Of Hip Hop
Peace Education for Action is an impressive compendium that offers great insight from a stellar group of scholar-activists. The text is a rare combination of "how-to guide" grounded in theoretical context. Though aimed at youth activists, this is an excellent guide for any communnity organiztion or group searching for ways to improve their effectiveness. I can also imagine it serving as an invaluable resource for my undergraduate course in public policy and communnity action. This is exactly the right book, at the right time.
-- Sandy Grande, author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought
These days we desperately need more welcoming gateways to activism and more worthwhile reasons to get an education. Educating for Action takes on these issues. Wake up from the American dream and dedicate your life to struggling for a better reality. The future is what we struggle to make it.
-- Leslie James Pickering, former Earth Liberation Front Press Officer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Joy James
Preface
Peter McLaren
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella II
PART I. Starting With Me
1. Personal Lifestyle
Larry Butz
2. Communication and Rhetoric
Jason Del Gandio
PART II. Working with Others
3. Participation and Democracy
Joshua Ryan Holst
4. Conflict and Justice
Anthony J. Nocella II
PART III. Getting in the Streets
5. Community Organizing
Drew Winter
6. Activism
TBA
PART IV. Social Networks
7. Forums and Conferences
Jennifer Grubbs and Michael Loadenthal
8. Internet Social Media
Jeannette Russell
PART V. Institutional Change
9. Legal, Policy, and Lobbying
Dara Lovitz
10. Teaching Peace and Social Justice in the Classroom and School
Rita Verma
In this unprecedented and timely collection, some of the most influential voices in the world of law and animal rights examine the legalities of the AETA, highlight its repressive nature and the collusion between private interests and political legislation, and provide theoretical frameworks for understanding a variety of related issues. In a series of interviews, the book also gives animal advocates who have been convicted or directly affected by the AETA, including members of the AETA 4 and SHAC 7, an opportunity to speak for themselves. Ultimately, these writers show that the AETA is less about fighting terrorism and more about safeguarding corporate profit, and that it should be analyzed and resisted by everyone who believes in a better world.
Featuring: Piers Beirne, Sarahjane Blum, Heidi Boghosian, Walter Bond, Joseph Buddenberg, Sarat Colling, Kimberly E. McCoy, Jason Del Gandio, Scott DeMuth, Carol L. Glasser, Jennifer D. Grubbs, Josh Harper, Stephanie Jenkins, Jay Johnson, Eric Jonas, Michael Loadenthal, Dara Lovitz, Lillian M. McCartin, Anthony J. Nocella II, David Naguib Pellow, Will Potter, Dylan Powell, Ryan Shapiro, Wesley Shirley, John Sorenson, Vasile Stanescu, Brad J. Thomson, and Aaron Zellhoefer"
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PRAISE FOR "Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption"
This analysis of the AETA is a must read for those who seek to understand how and why forms of protest against structural and institutionalized oppression (everything from civil rights to anti-war) are criminalized, pathologized, and constructed as "terrorism." Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption shows how the AETA is not singular issue, but joins a long history of repressing social movements that seek to disrupt the machinery of capitalism and its commodification of sentient beings (human and non-human animals) to benefit a privileged demographic of consumer citizens.
- A. Breeze Harper, editor of Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak
"The Terrorization of Dissent" opens the curtain on how corporate greed and political bankruptcy collided to create the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. This intelligent compendium offers legal, political and theoretical analyses of how one law has vilified and punished an entire social justice movement. It's crucial reading for anyone who cares about our constitutional rights and the committed individuals whose only crime was drawing attention to the exploitation and cruel treatment of animals.
- Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
An excellent and very important book. It's vital that all those who are concerned for the protection of our fellow creatures understand why this appallling Act has come about and work together to try to circumvent it and eventually get rid of it.
- Ronnie Lee, founder of the Animal Liberation Front
As laws targeting specific social movements continue to be executed, Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption offers a timely and urgent challenge to the blatant unconstitutionality of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. The chapters in this collection should interest anyone who is concerned about freedom of expression, the U.S.’s growing plutocracy, and the continued exploitation of nonhuman animals.
- Dr. Kim Socha, author of Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation
The law serves primarily to enforce hegemonic consensus and to criminalize those in society that would dissent from the same. In a more perfect world there could be a participatory set of legal institutions that tend toward justice. But in contemporary America, we have instead generated a massive legal industrial complex that results in new threats to democracy, freedom, justice, and peace. At the very nadir of this nightmare sits the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. This book is therefore a welcomed jurisprudence with an attitude—a bellwether critique of how “terrorism” is defined, investigated, and prosecuted post-9/11.
– Dr. Richard Kahn, Core Faculty in Education, Antioch University Los Angeles
This chilling, well researched book lays out precisely how our own government, right here in these United States, acts against the interests of its citizens to protect the often illegal conduct of private businesses; how U.S. agencies have infiltrated social movements and invaded individuals’ lives and homes, harassing, harming and even destroying people and groups who pose a threat by exposing institutional wrongdoing. This book is a public service that will shock you into realizing that we live in a banana republic.
- Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA
This is the most important book about the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. If you are concerned at all about social justice, activism, or the U.S. constitution then you must read this book now. This book should be a required reading for every law school.
- Journal for Critical Animal Studies
Animal rights and the humane treatment of animals continues to slip the societal radar. Most in the public assume that animals have some types of law in places which protect animals. Thus, The Law Against Animals is a timely book which challenges us to not only be aware of these issue, but to engage in it. Anyone serious about any dimension of activism needs to read this book.
- Dr. Daniel White Hodge, North Park University, Author of The Soul Of Hip Hop: Rimbs, Timbs, & A Cultural Theology
In the United States, we have become ensepulchured in a shared mentality and enforced amnesia that enshrines injustice in the name of justice and that exalts inhumanity and torture in the name of national security. The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act forbids acts of liberation and acts of mercy and acts of social justice thereby enforcing and legitimizing the most heinous acts against non-human life, shackling humanity in a locked cage of cut-throat barbarism and savagery. This book is a powerful weapon in the struggle for justice!
- Dr. Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Today, arrays of corporate, political, and police force actors have worked in a concerted effort to criminalize a broad range of activities which could be construed to be part of an animal rights movement. This effort constitutes a war on dissent against institutions of animal cruelty, and it has been subsumed by the fictional “war on terror,” in what are essentially attempts to normalize the terror felt by the animals which constitute the raw materials of animal using industries . In reviewing this war on dissent, Corporate Repression and Legal Corruption focuses upon the 2006 Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a Bush-era statute, while providing the reader with a comprehensive picture of the use of police power on behalf of enshrined corporations. It’s an essential text for anyone wishing to broaden their knowledge of US government repression in this era.
- Dr. Samuel Fassbinder, co-editor of Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts
For decades, 'animal enterprises' have been teaming up and crying victim to Congress in efforts to create special protections against those of us struggling for animal liberation. One result is the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act – a bold step deeper into fascism where the thought crime of animal liberation earns us extraordinary attention from law enforcement and disproportionate legal consequences. Bringing together several essential voices and spanning the divide between activist and academic, this volume puts an important focus on the deplorable lengths a sadistic industry will go to in efforts to satisfy its greed.
- Leslie James Pickering, author of Mad Bomber Melville
With the rise of the corporate university and the academic industrial complex, colleges and universities throughout the United States are becoming monitored, armed, gated, and contracted out in the name of security. Policing the Campus is a collection of essays by activist academics and campus organizers from a variety of fields and movements. The book fully explores how higher education has entered a state of academic repression. In this new Occupy Wall Street era, higher education mirrors the problems that plague urban schools in poor communities, including metal detectors, random locker searches, drug-sniffing police dogs, in-class arrests, and security guards at every major entrance. Policing the Campus is a wake-up call to protect higher education as a bastion of free thought, strategy, and challenge for the 99%, and not preserve it as the privilege of the elite 1%.
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Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
Edited By: Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword: This Is Your Mind on Lockdown
Christian Parenti
Introduction: Canary in the Coal Mine
David Gabbard
PART I.
CAMPUS POLICE
1. Arrests and Repression as a Logic of Neoliberalism
Jason Del Gandio
2. Repression of Student Activism on College
Wesley Strong
3. Policing College Campuses: Race, Social Control, and the Securitizing of College Campuses
Daniel White Hodge
4. Policed Pedagogy: Controlling and Dominating Classrooms, Curriculum, and Courses
Kim Socha
5. Of Accountablity, Surveillance, and Fear: Speaking Out and Losing My Job
Barbara Madeloni
PART II.
THE SURVEILLED CAMPUS
6. Cameras and ID Card Swipes:
Privacy and the Cultivation of the Virtual Self
Richard Van Heertum
7. Socio-Technical Developments in Campus Securitization: Building and Resisting the Policing Apparatus
Ben Brucato and Luis A. Fernandez
8. We Are All Hokies: Surveillance Culture and Communication Technologies on a Post–Virginia Tech Campus
Caroline Kaltefleiter
9. Political Research: Scholarship as Terrorism
David Pellow and Scott DeMuth
10. The College Campus as Panopticon:
How Security and Surveillance Are Undermining Free Inquiry
Joe Lewis
PART III.
FROM DEFENDING PUBLIC EDUCATION TO THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
11. Militant Privatization: The UC–Davis Pepper-Spray Incident
Sarah Augusto and Julie Setele
12. Higher Ed on a Slippery Slope: Pulling It Back from the Brink of Tyranny
Maura Stephens
13. Occupy Colleges: The Resurgence of U.S. Radical Student Activism
Ryan Thomson and Natalia Abrams
14. Faculty Should Join with Occupy Movement Protesters
on College Campuses
Henry Giroux
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK:
Policing the Campus should enlighten, enrage, and empower us all to confront the militarization of higher education and transform our colleges and universities into what they are supposed to be: spaces of learning and liberation.
— Dr. David Naguib Pellow, Don Martindale Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota and co-author (with Lisa Park) of “The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden”
We live in a time of unprecedented clampdown on student dissent and ‘policed pedagogy,’ super-surveillance at colleges across the planet. This book, concentrating on realities of repression largely in the U.S., will galvanize researchers elsewhere to investigate and struggle against similar forms of academic fascism engulfing campuses worldwide.
— Bill Templer, Independent Scholar, Bulgaria
As one who has had his classes infiltrated over the years by students from right wing organizations -— solely for the purpose of disrupting (and reporting on) my course content, I cannot say enough about the timeliness and importance of this excellent work. Academic freedom has been under attack for many decades and in many ways. Much ground has been lost that needs to be regained. Hopefully this book will contribute toward the accomplishment of that goal.
— Dr. John C. Alessio, Former SBS Dean, Minnesota State Mankato, author of “Social Problems and Inequality: Social Responsibility through Progressive Sociology”
Nocella and Gabbard have done it again! Policing the Campus minces no words and pulls no punches to focus the scholarly microscope on the repression and suppression of intellectual thought and action. Faculty and students alike will view their educational opportunities and work in a new light through this startling exposé of academic policing.
— Dr. Julie Andrzejewski, Professor, Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education
In Policing the Campus, Gabbard and Nocella make a critical and radical intervention that challenges the policing and surveillance of higher education. If the influence of military, corporations, and law enforcement— and the creation of a police state on every campus— go unchecked, it will be impossible for democratic and free education to flourish.
— Sarat Colling, Institute for Critical Animal Studies
In the ever changing climate of higher education, the policies related to this system still reflect of a cultural climate that does little to recognize the diverse community in which higher education has become. The Book, Policing the Campus, push us to look at the climate of higher education and the response needed to move both our society and educational instruction to reflect and act in a more cultural responsive manner.
— Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks, Associated Dean of the School of Education, Hamline University and Editor of the Journal for Critical Urban Education
A must read for professors, students, staff, administrators, and the general public concerned about the future of education and democracy. Finally, here is a book that examines the police state that is growing on every campus.
— Dr. Priya Parmar, author of Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Artist KRS-ONE
Policing the Campus is a pointed collection that takes aim at the disciplinary logics and practices that increasingly dominate higher education. The essays that explore the relationships between campus activism and the Occupy movement are especially timely, but the entire book is a fruitful contribution to the debate over the freedom of the university in the 21st Century.
— Zack Furness, editor of Punkademics
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This is the first book to define the philosophical and practical parameters of critical animal studies (CAS). Rooted in anarchist perspectives that oppose all systems of domination and authoritarianism, CAS both challenges anthropocentrism and presents animal liberation as a social justice movement that intersects with other movements for positive change. Written by a collection of internationally respected scholar-activists, each chapter expands upon the theory and practice underlying the total liberation approach, the roles of academics and activists, and the ten principles of CAS. With apolitical animal studies and exploitative animal research dominating higher education, this book offers a timely counter-narrative that demands the liberation of all oppressed beings and the environment. Defining Critical Animal Studies will interest educators, students, activists, community members, and policy makers seeking accessible theory that can be put into action.
Defining Critical Animal Studies: An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation
Edited by: Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha, and Atsuko Matsuoka
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD:
David Nibert
PREFACE:
Ronnie Lee
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DEDICATION
INTRODUCTION:
The Emergence of Critical Animal Studies: The Rise of Intersectional Animal Liberation
Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha, and Atsuko Matsuoka,
PART I: INTERDEPENDENCY
CHAPTER ONE:
An Introduction to Anthropocentrism, Humanism, and Contemporary Animal Ethics
Adam Weitzenfeld and Melanie Joy
CHAPTER TWO:
Ecological Defense for Animal Liberation: A Holistic Understanding of the World
Amy J. Fitzgerald and David Pellow
PART II: UNITY
CHAPTER THREE:
Until All Are Free: Total Liberation through Revolutionary Decolonization, Groundless Solidarity, and a Relationship Framework
Sarat Colling, Sean Parson, and Alessandro Arrigoni
CHAPTER FOUR:
One Struggle
Stephanie Jenkins and Vasile Stanescu
PART III: CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP
CHAPTER FIVE:
The Ivory Trap: Bridging the Gap Between Activism and the Academy
Carol Glasser and Arpan Roy
CHAPTER SIX:
Critical Animal Studies as an Interdisciplinary Field: A Holistic Approach to Confronting Oppression
Kimberly Socha and Les Mitchell
PART IV: RADICAL EDUCATION
CHAPTER SEVEN:
Radical Humility: Toward a More Holistic Critical Animal Studies Pedagogy
Lauren Corman and Tereza Vandrovcová
CHAPTER EIGHT:
Engaged Activist Research: Challenging Apolitical Objectivity
Lara Drew and Nik Taylor
PART V: TAKING IT TO THE STREETS
CHAPTER NINE:
From the Classroom to the Slaughterhouse: Animal Liberation By Any Means Necessary
Jennifer Grubbs and Michael Loadenthal
CHAPTER TEN:
Taking it to the Streets: Challenging Systems of Domination From Below
Richard White and Erika Cudworth
AFTERWORD:
From Animal Oppression to Animal Liberation: A Historical Reflection and the Growth of Critical Animal Studies
Karen Davis
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES READER:
"Defining Critical Animal Studies is the type of book that everyone should read, not just animal rights activists, but also the naysayers, fence-sitters, and uninformed. And why? Because this book is educational, enlightening, and transformative. It literally alters how we see and understand the issues of human and nonhuman relations, equality, democracy, food, consumption, activism, and social movements. And the book accomplishes this task by practicing what it preaches: bringing together a variety of scholars and activists, both old and new, that address the theoretical, practical, political, and personal intersections of animal liberation."
-Dr. Jason Del Gandio, author of "Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists"
"Through their work in this excellent volume, the editor and contributors give me hope that perhaps all is not lost for our species. But then I think, what kind of society marginalizes, harasses, and surveils these kinds of people as terrorists, but valorizes and rewards the real radicals and the real terrorists whose blood-lust for profits has normalized the systematic torture, oppression, and genocide of creatures unfortunate enough not to have been born human? As long as the latter group retains the backing of state violence, they'll continue super-sizing us toward extinction."
-Dr. David Gabbard, professor of Education, Boise State University
"Defining Critical Animal Studies comes at a moment when the devastating effects of climate change, the loss of species in the current 6th mass extinction, the overconsumption of the earth’s resources, endless toxic wars, and the exponential increase in human population are converging far more quickly than scientists predicted to create a multitude of crises – not in the distant future – but right here and now. This book reveals the necessity of reframing social justice and animal rights thought to forge new visions and creative movements to end human and corporate domination and exploitation of other humans, other forms of life, and the Earth."
-Dr. Julie Andrzejewski, Professor, St. Cloud State University
"This is a must read for anyone concerned with the interconnectedness of struggles for justice and liberation. It is against single-issue politics. It is for the rights of all animals, irrespective of species, age, sex, race, class and ability. What an exciting book!"
-Dr. Piers Beirne, author of "Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships"
As radical means “root,” Defining Critical Animal Studies is a radical book that explores the social, historical, and political roots underlying the oppression and exploitation of human and nonhuman animals alike. The book is also radical in advocating for the connection between scholarship and activism, and in promoting interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to “the question of the animal.” Students, scholars, activists, and citizens interested in engaging social justice across the species boundary will find these essays confronting many of the key issues of the twenty-first century, where what is at stake is survival itself.
-Dr. Dan Featherston, Assistant Professor, Temple University, and Editor, Lexington Critical Animal Studies Book Series
"Critical Animal Studies is a spreading academic discipline that brings much-needed activist and radical perspectives to classrooms globally, just the kind of thing that breathes life and real substance into higher education."
-Leslie James Pickering, former Earth Liberation Front Press Officer
"There is an urgent need for a broader analysis in the animal liberation movement. The contributors to Defining Critical Animal Studies grapple with questions our movement will have to engage in in order to move forward."
-Erin Marcus, Event Coordinator and Co-Founder, Open the Cages Alliance
"Finally, a collection of work that details the rapidly growing field of Critical Animal Studies. Scholars and activists will find much-needed intersectional analysis that calls for nonhuman animal liberation, dismantlement of human oppression and the end of environmental exploitation. Defining Critical Animal Studies should not be read by anyone who wishes to continue the status quo."
-Jessica Ison, Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania, Director"
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From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
Edited By: Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
William Ayers
Preface
Frank Hernandez
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction –
Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall
PART I.
THE RISE OF AN IMPRISONING YOUTH CULTURE
CHAPTER ONE
Criminalizing Education: Zero Tolerance Policies, Police in the Hallways, and the School to Prison Pipeline
Nancy A. Heitzeg
CHAPTER TWO
The Schoolhouses as Jailhouses
Annette Fuentes
CHAPTER THREE
Changing the Lens: Moving Away from the School to Prison Pipeline
Damien Sojoyner
PART II.
TARGETING YOUTH
CHAPTER FOUR
Punishment Creep and the Crisis of Youth in the Age of Disposability
Henry Giroux
CHAPTER FIVE
Targets for Arrest
Jesselyn McCurdy
CHAPTER SIX
Red Road Lost: A Story Based on True Events
Four Arrows
CHAPTER SEVEN
Emerging from Our Silos: Coalition Building for Black Girls
Maisha Winn and Stephanie Franklin
PART III.
SPECIAL EDUCATION IS SEGREGATION
CHAPTER EIGHT
Warehousing, Imprisoning and Labeling Youth, “Minorities”
Nekima Levy-Pounds
CHAPTER NINE
Who wants to be Special? Pathologization and the Preparation of Bodies for Prison
Deanna Adams and Erica Meiners
CHAPTER TEN
The New Eugenics: Challenging Urban Education and Special Education and for a Promise of Hip Hop Pedagogy
Anthony J. Nocella II and Kim Socha
PART IV.
BEHIND THE WALLS
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Prisons of Ignorance
Mumia Abu-Jamal
CHAPTER TWELVE
At the End of the Pipeline: Can the Liberal Arts Liberate the Incarcerated?
Deborah Appleman, Ezekiel Caligiuri, and Jon Vang
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Transformative Justice and Hip Hop Activism in Action
Anthony J. Nocella II
PART V.
TRANSFORMATIVE ALTERNATIVES
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Back on the Block: Community Re-entry and the Re-integration of Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Don C. Sawyer III and Daniel White Hodge
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Youth in Transition and School Re-entry: Process, Problems and Preparation
Anne Burns Thomas
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Dialogue on School Policy from a Parent of Incarcerated Youth
Letitia Basford, Bridget Borer, and Joe Lewis
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Youth of Color Fight Back: Transforming Our Communities
Emilio Lacques and Leslie Mendoza
Afterword
Bernardine Dohrn
Contributors’ Biographies
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK:
"An impressive contribution to policy discussions on the facts and myth of school violence and safer schools for children by notable experts and scholar-activists. The contributors demonstrate effectively that in the post Columbine era, political litmus tests of “zero tolerance” amount to “zero logic”— they represent imprisonization and militarization strategies of staggering proportions. Helpfully, authors point to alternative, peaceful models, to schools that opt out of “zero tolerance” and refuse to dehumanize children of color. An important book for anybody concerned about the state of education in the United States."
- Dr. Mechthild Nagel, co-editor of "Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality"
"How did we become a society that handcuffs its young and warehouses them in penal institutions instead of educating them? From Education to Incarceration answers that questions and offers an intelligently crafted overview of how ill-advised and inhumane practices and policies in the United States have betrayed generations of young persons, with suggestions for how we can upend these transgressions. Educators, attorneys, youth organizers and many others write with authority and conviction in this timely, relevant and eminently readable book."
- Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild
"This compelling collection of voices of radical educators could not arrive at a more urgent time. It serves as a clenched fist with the power to break ideological chains. Read it, and take back our schools!"
- Dr. Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles
"Activists oppose oil pipelines as environmental death sentences; they confront transport that pushes profits and products before life with the clear understanding that to destabilize a healthy environment is suicidal. The school to prison pipeline is also life-threatening: There is the free, vibrant child who blossoms; there is the caged, captive child who withers. From Education to Incarceration reminds us that the only adequate response to children's exploitation and violation, in school and out, is to protect our most precious natural resources with profound courage and love."
- Dr. Joy James, author of "Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in U.S. Culture"
"State Property—that’s what you are in prison, and that’s what you are in school. This volume explains why one leads to the other and gives on-the-ground tactics to end the schooling structures that feed our shameful prison nation. Read this book and “put your bodies upon the gears.”
- Dr. Emery Petchauer, author of "Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives: Elements, Embodiment, and Higher Edutainment"
"The authors, activists, and educators who gather their voices for From Education to Incarceration paint a clear, devastating picture of the way systems and the people who profit from their corruption create and then target disenfranchised youth. But what makes this book unique is that they do more: they equip us with the tools to fight back. That is invaluable, and why everybody who cares about youth should read this book."
- Dr. Paul C. Gorski, author of "Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap"
"School-to-prison pipeline is not a metaphor for research, it describes the brutal realities of imprisonment and the injustice, impoverishment and racism integral to it. The activists and educators collaborating in this powerful project help us understand how the once dystopian prospects of prisons-for-profit, the normalisation of surveillance, the criminalisation of youth and routine legal violence have become part of everyday experience, albeit one partially hidden from advantaged groups."
Dr. Ruth Kinna, Professor of Political Theory at Loughborough University
The criminalization of youth behavior is a form violence and oppression common mainly at poor school communities. This much needed book exposes these practices and we hope it will contribute to put an end to the school to prison pipeline.
- Dr. César A. Rossatto, editor of "Teaching for a Global Community: Overcoming the Divided and Conquer Strategies of the Oppressor"
"Nocella, Parmar, and Stovall have assembled an impressive group of authors for this amazing collection. While the fearful defenders of corporate rule will condemn the critical linkage of scholarship and activism represented here, anyone who still believes in a humanist vision of hope will find these essays invaluable for contemplating the scale of the challenges ahead."
- Dr. David Gabbard, co-editor of "Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools"
"Public schooling is divided along razor sharp lines. Schools do skills training, and depending on where a child is, some limited intellectual training. In public schools, the key issues of life: work, production and reproduction, rational knowledge, and freedom, are virtually illegal. The shorting machine of schools serves to train the next generation of workers from pre-med or pre-law in affluent neighbourhoods, to pre-middle class teacher training and for many in urban and rural areas pre-military schooling and pre-prison education. Contributors to Education to Incarceration describe and decontruct how for many students the promise of public education is merely bigger cages and longer chains."
- Dr. E. Wayne Ross, Professor, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of British Columbia
As a social worker that mentors and consults youth on probation, I have been in desperate need of a book that articulates all the problems of schools and the juvenile justice system to city policy makers. From Education to Incarceration is a must read for educators and policy makers and a 101 manual for community organizer working with youth to dismantle once and for all the school to prison pipeline.
- Joanna Lowry, Social Worker, Neighborhood House
This is the academic Age of the Neoliberal Arts. Campuses-as places characterized by democratic debate and controversy, wide ranges of opinion typical of vibrant public spheres, and service to the larger society-are everywhere being creatively destroyed in order to accord with market and military models befitting the academic-industrial complex. While it has become increasingly clear that facilitating the sustainability movement is the great 21st century educational challenge at hand, this book asserts that it is both a dangerous and criminal development today that sustainability in higher education has come to be defined by the complex-friendly "green campus" initiatives of science, technology, engineering and management programs. By contrast, Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts takes the standpoints of those working for environmental and ecological justice in order to critique the unsustainable disciplinary limitations within the humanities and social sciences, as well as provide tactical reconstructive openings toward an empowered liberal arts for sustainability. Greening the Academy thus hopes to speak back with a collective demand that sustainability education be defined as a critical and moral vocation comprised of the diverse types of humanistic study that will benefit the well-being of our emerging planetary community and its numerous common locales.
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"WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT GREENING THE ACADEMY
The necessity of linking together single issue social justice pursuits cannot be overstated, nor can the crucial role higher education must play in helping to solve international social justice dilemmas. Greening of the Academy provides a much-needed analysis focusing on the importance of these issues as a means to progress global peace and justice issues. A must read for anyone seriously interested in making a difference in the world.
- Craig Rosebraugh, Author of Burning Rage of a Dying Planet
Many of the most important forces for social change in human history have taken root in our universities, and today the academy is a crucial site where scholars are working to integrate ecological sustainability and social justice. Greening the Academy is a clarion call for deep green approaches to thinking, teaching, research, and action that can make a dramatic and positive difference for the future of all species.
- Dr. David Naguib Pellow,
Author of Garbage Wars:
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago
Critical, crucial, and challenging, this book initiates a dialogue essential to the survival of our planet and all the species on it, including our own. Ignored for far too long by leaders of the major social institutions around the world, this book poses the question of whether the academy will belatedly tackle the urgent policies and actions necessary to ameliorate the ecological destruction wrought by predatory capitalism. University Centers for Teaching and Learning should use this book to generate meaningful discussions of curriculum transformation wherever possible.
- Dr. Julie Andrzejewski,
Co-Director, Social Responsibility Masters Program,
St. Cloud State University
Greening the Academy breaks through barriers that continue to enervate higher education's contribution to environmental education and ecological justice. By connecting radical "cognitive praxis" and authentic Indigenous perspectives to a variety of relevant topics, it offers educators motivation and maps for helping us all regain our lost balance before it is too late.
- Four Arrows,
Editor of Unlearning the Language of Conquest:
Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America
This is an important and urgent book that represents a landmark for higher education. It is a book that must be heeded, and, more importantly acted upon.
- Dr. Peter McLaren,
Author of Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution
Higher education plays an increasingly important role globally in determining responses to human-induced environmental change. Greening the Academy shows us that it is crucial that educational policy, curriculum, institutional practice, and scholarly research go beyond greenwashing business as usual and instead engage critically with environmental issues. The book highlights how environmental concerns are not only the purview of the sciences but are centrally a result of cultural and economic practices and priorities, and thus must be engaged interdisciplinarily and in relation to community and place. To change the path we have set for the planet, it will take collaboration and persistence; this book offers hope in moving forward.
- Dr. Marcia McKenzie,
Editor of Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education
From the Back Cover
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Bill McKibben
Introduction
Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Samuel Fassbinder
1. Greening Education - Samuel Fassbinder / 2. Greening Criminology - Piers Beirne and Nigel South / 3. Greening Sociology - Kishi Animashaun Ducre / 4. Greening Political Science - Timothy Luke / 5. Greening Philosophy - Steven Best / 6. Greening Economics - Miriam Kennet and Michele Gale De Oliveira / 7. Greening Geography - Donna Houston / 8. Greening History - Eva Swidler / 9. Greening Anthropology - Brian McKenna / 10. Greening Communication - Tema Milstein / 11. Greening Literature - Corey Lewis / 12. Greening Dis-Ability - Anthony J. Nocella II / 13. Greening Feminism - Greta Gaard
Afterword: Can Higher Education Take Climate Change as Seriously as the CIA and the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London?
David A. Greenwood" "
Calling on sources as venerable as Thomas Aquinas and as current as the Patriot Act—and, in some cases, personal experience—the contributors explore the history of civil disobedience and sabotage, and examine the philosophical and cultural meanings of words like "terrorism," "democracy" and "freedom," in a book that ultimately challenges the values and assumptions that pervade our culture. Contributors include Robin Webb, Rod Coronado, Ingrid Newkirk, Paul Watson, Karen Davis, Bruce Friedrich and others.
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Review
At a time when it is increasingly more difficult to find insightful and accessible work challenging the structural and ideological foundations of neoliberal economic savagery, The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination provides a key resource for such a task. This is a wide ranging and thoughtful book that not only critically analyzes the deepening and myriad forms of global market authoritarianism but also offers the theoretical tools to challenge it. A must read for anyone concerned about the promise of a real democracy and the economic, political, and cultural forces subverting it.
— Henry Giroux, McMaster University and author of Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and The Challenge of the New Media
An excellent, well-researched, and richly informed compendium on the nature of global exploitation and power, a nourishing corrective to the vapid evasions we are usually fed.
— Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism (2011) and God and His Demons (2010)
In this book, leading American radical scholars provide important insights into interlocking networks of power under global capitalism. This fine collection of essays is a useful tool for those seeking to understand and alter the corporate structures that dominate our world.
— John Sorenson, Chair, Department of Sociology, Brock University
This penetrating, insightful book written by a collection of the world's most prominent public intellectuals, is a skilled combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of what the contributors term the 'global industrial complex'. The authors combine scholarship with insight, erudition with moral passion as they critique the fundamental direction in which our world is moving financially, politically and economically. The conclusions are radical and profound. No activist, academic or student can afford to ignore their arguments.
— Susan L. Thomas, Director, Gender and Women's Studies; Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Political Science, Hollins University
The Global Industrial Complex makes an immense contribution to the literature by engaging the key thoughts and ideas of some of the most important, influential and outspoken public intellectuals of our time. In doing so the book provides not only a searing and devastating critique of contemporary ‘capitalist' society, but also engages in a full frontal assault on the poverty of imagination evident in those who refuse to believe that there are real alternatives, and that active resistance is necessary to achieve them. It deserves to be read widely.
— Richard White, editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies
From the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction by Steven Best
Chapter One: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours by Noam Chomsky
Chapter Two: The Corporate War Economy by Carl Boggs
Chapter Three: The Security Industrial Complex by Ward Churchill
Chapter Four: The Media-Military Industrial Complex by Toby Miller
Chapter Five: The Criminal (Justice) Industrial Complex by Mechthild Nagel
Chapter Six: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex by
Andrea Smith
Chapter Seven: Higher Education's Industrial Model by Cary Nelson
Chapter Eight: The Agricultural Industrial Complex by Vandana Shiva
Chapter Nine: Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial Complex by David Nibert
Chapter Ten: Bad For Your Health: The U.S. Medical Industrial Complex Goes Global by
Asif Ismail
Chapter Eleven: College Sports: It's All About the Money! by Earl Smith and Angela Hattery
Chapter Twelve: Driving to Carmageddon: Capitalism, Transportation, and the Logic of
Planetary Crisis by Michael Dawson
Afterword by Peter McLaren
Review
“This is an important text that sheds a powerful new light on the exploitation industry we have come to know as Hollywood. It is a book that demands a close reading.”
--Peter McLaren, Professor of Urban Schooling, University of California, Los Angeles
“A rich and varied collection of commentaries, offering insightful critiques and sociological sensibilities. Of interest to ordinary film buffs and cinematic specialists alike.”
--Michael Parenti, author of Make-Believe Media and Contrary Notions
“For readers of Hollywood’s Exploited, the wisdom will be gained, not received. Against conventional grains, this is an anthology of thoughtful inquiries and tough-minded assessments – challenging us to think anew, and more deeply, about what we see in movies.”
--Norman Solomon, author of The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media; War Made Easy; and The Trouble with Dilbert
“This smart collection reminds us that whatever reality we might observe and investigate is merely the starting point of thought, struggle, and action; standing directly next to whatever the case may be is always what the case could be or should be. Frymer, Kashani, Nocella, and Van Heertum have assembled a mighty chorus urging us to go beneath surface meanings and instant impressions, official policies and commercial messages, political propaganda, controlling myths, received wisdom and the dogma of common sense. We begin to understand, then, the root causes and social context of the taken-for-granted all around us. This is a call-to-arms.”
--William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago and author of To Teach
“This book offers the clearest evidence yet of how a supposedly ‘liberal’ Hollywood trades in racial, sexual, and other stereotypes as a matter of course, and why such portrayals of marginalized and otherwise disempowered groups have a profound impact on the public's appreciation of the various forms of social and political discrimination they still face.”
--Mark LeVine, Professor of Middle Eastern History, University of California, Irvine and author of Why They Don't Hate Us and Heavy Metal Islam
About the Author
Benjamin Frymer is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University.
Tony Kashani is Humanities Professor in the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute & University.
Anthony J. Nocella, II is completing his doctoral work at Syracuse University and teaches classes in Sociology and Criminology at Le Moyne College and SUNY Cortland.
Richard Van Heertum is Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at CUNY/College of Staten Island.
As the destruction of nature reaches new extremes, resistance becomes ever more militant. Radical environmental groups are front page news. From laboratory bombings to the destruction of ski resorts, this emerging new militancy has been steadily upping the political ante. Authorities have responded in kind, handing down unprecedented heavy prison sentences for acts of property destruction. Congressional committees have been convened, the FBI has put revolutionary environmentalists at the top of their domestic terrorism list, and the "terrorists" themselves promise bigger and more spectacular assaults in the future. This anthology features a range of voices—from academics to armed revolutionaries—that explore this new form of political struggle. The first book of it’s kind on this increasingly important topic!
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Anthony is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.
He’s published more than 10 books including - as co-editor - Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? and The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination.
Anthony’s most recent book with co-author Sarat Colling is: Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story.