Seditious Acts

Being in, But Not of, the Neoliberal University

Agitate! Unsettling Knowledges

Sedition is speculative. Even as our collected writings chart a possible way forward–in and through the various forms of dispossession enacted by the institution—there are no guarantees.  And yet, we gather, organize, and write to mark particular moments in this struggle. 

While the state continues its attacks on Indigenous, Black, queer, trans, Muslim, Palestinian, immigrant, refugee, and communities of color, radical voices across the board continue to resist by drawing attention to, and grappling with, new ways of addressing and confronting the state’s varied systematic violences. In the spirit of radical traditions cultivated inside and outside the academy, graduate students of color and Indigenous students are constantly interrogating what it means to be “in, but not of” the university.[10] They understand that being in the academy is a serious risk. The potential to reproduce the very violences they seek to dismantle is heightened by the fact that they are living, learning, and laboring in systems constructed on stolen land, subsidized by chattel slavery, and that thrive on racial capitalism and empire. Hence, some graduate students of color and Indigenous students are acutely aware of the inseparable violences within and outside the neoliberal university and how they are impacted and implicated within them.

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