Class Struggle Revisited: Theory, Method, & Praxis
Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group 2020-2021
Faculty Lead: Dr. Shahrzad Mojab
Organizing Team: Genevieve Ritchie, Shirin Haghgou, & Wesal Abu Qaddum
Taking the social relations of class struggle as its point of departure, the Working Group strives to make sense of and retheorize the chaotic yet organized conditions of global accumulation, displacement, and dispossession. Although class formations determine the exploitation of working people, class struggle encompasses myriad processes and practices of ideological repression, which include, without being limited to, hetero-patriarchy, racialization, colonization, migration, Indigenous erasure, nationalism, and white supremacy. In the Working Group, we will bring seminal works into conversation with emergent social struggles by revisiting the theory, method, and praxis of class struggle.
September 2020 – April 2021
Fridays 3:00 – 4:30pm (EST) on Zoom
For Inquiries and registration email: class.struggleworkinggroup@gmail.com
Class Struggle Revisited:
Theory, Method, & Praxis
Presenter: Dr. Shahrzad Mojab
Facilitator: Dr. Genevieve Ritchie
Reading:
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Estes, N., & Dunbar-Oritz, R. (2020). Examining the Wreckage. Monthly Review.
Capitalist Imperialism:
Colonization, Racism, & Patriarchy
Presenters: Dr. Manu Karuka in conversation with Dr. Michelle Murphy
Reading:
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Karuka, M. (2019). Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroads. University of California Press.
Class Struggle: Black Power Movements
Presentation: Dr. Beverly Bain in conversation with Kali Akuno
Facilitator: Dr. Chandni Desai
Readings:
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Austin, D. (2013). Fear of a Black Nation: Race, sex, and security in sixties Montreal. Between the Lines
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Kelley, R. (2002). Freedom Dreams: The Black radical imagination. Beacon Press.
Violence, Dispossession, & Profits:
Money & Markets
Presenters: Dr. Chandni Desai
Moderator: Shirin Haghgou
Readings:
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Estes, N. (2019). Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance. Verso.
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Desai, C. (forthcoming). Indigenous intifadas, resurgent solidarity: Disrupting settler colonial economies from Wet’suwet’en to Palestine.
Violence, Dispossession, & Profits:
Money & Markets
Presenters: Dr. Adam Hanieh & Dr. David McNally
Moderator: Dr. Shahrzad Mojab
Readings:
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Hanieh, A. (2018). Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the political economy of the contemporary Middle East. Cambridge University Press.
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McNally, D. (2020). Blood and Money: War, slavery, and the state. Haymarket Books.
Violence, Dispossession, & Profits:
Class & Migration
Presenters: Dr. Immanuel Ness, Dr. Philip Marfleet, & Dr. Leandros Fischer
Moderator: Dr. Genevieve Ritchie
Readings:
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Fischer, L., & Jørgensen, M. B. (2020). “We are here to stay” vs. “Europe’s best
hotel”: Hamburg and Athens as Geographies of Solidarity. Antipode, 0(0), 1-21.
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Marfleet, P. (2007). Refugees and history: Why we must address the past. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 26(3), 136–148.
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Ness, I. (2015). Southern Insurgency: The coming of the global working class. Pluto Press.
Migration & Social Reproduction
Presenters: Dr. Ashely Bohrer & Dr. Jamie Magnusson
Moderator: Dr. Sara Carpenter
Readings:
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Bohrer, A. (2020). Wages for immigration: Labour and social reproduction under contemporary capitalism. Spectre. 1(1): 48–60.