Seditious Acts: Being in, But Not of, the Neoliberal University

Agitate! Unsettling Knowledges Journal

This issue is the result of several conversations amongst graduate students of color from the Seditious Acts symposium at the University of Minnesota. The works in this volume reflect the intersectional identities, experiences, and positionalities of its producers, who are working-class, first-generation, feminist, queer, and international students of the Global South. All of these locations contribute to the devaluation of their knowledges and experiences in institutions of higher education in the United States. As such, this issue is a series of self-reflections, interrogations, disruptions and (re)imaginings related to the substantial problems of knowledge production and academic culture. This issue also operates as a call and guide toward community building for those in academia impacted by systematic oppression. 

“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.”