25th Feb2013

Coming Soon – “Policing the Campus by Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard

by Anthony Nocella

Coming Soon by Peter Lang Publishing

Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
Edited By: Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard

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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:

Higher education is the next iteration of the war on terror. The rhetoric used by our government has become the next frontier of surveillance attempting to silence the academy. Gabbard and Nocella take us deep inside these mind fields and show us the new “big brother”at every turn. Yet, they end with a pedagogy of occupy the classroom and show how some universities are generating a climate of resistance.

— Dr. sj Miller, co-editor of “Change Matters: Critical Essays on Moving Social Justice Research from Theory to Policy”

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”

Whether you agree or disagree with their conclusions, the essays in this volume are certain to inspire a much needed dialogue about the effects of police and military presences on college campuses. Everyone interested in the current state of higher education and its role in democratic society is sure to be equal parts intrigued and incensed by what they find within these pages.

— Dr. Steven W. Halady, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Canisius College

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

This book is a wake-up call for faculty to critically examine the extent to which corporations, conservatives, quasi-mental health professionals and the military have infiltrated higher education in a quest to suppress a liberal education-— our raison d’etre. Students and faculty are scrutinized for their behavior, and emergency response behavioral teams are kicked into action at the slightest indication of a mental health issue. “Deviance” is back in fashion, and we are all at risk from this new SWAT team.

— Dr. Janet Duncan, Associate Professor, Foundations and Social Advocacy, School of Education, SUNY Cortland

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

11th Sep2012

ICAS Representing at Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair

by Anthony Nocella

CAS will be tabling at the Third Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair on Sept. 15 and 16, 2012: http://tcanarchist.org/. At the event, ICAS’s Executive Director Anthony J. Nocella will hold a workshop on The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, an anthology he co-edited and released through AK Press, and present on a panel with members of Save the Kids, a transformative juvenile justice organization that he co-founded. Kim Socha, ICAS’s Director of the CAS Center of Academic Excellence, will facilitate a workshop entitled “Women, Destruction and Animal Liberation,” which pulls from themes of her book Women, Destruction and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation (Rodopi Publishing, 2011).

11th Sep2012

Prison Justice Interview with Kim Socha

by Anthony Nocella

Reposted: Animal Voices Radio Show in Vancouver, Canada

August 10 was Prison Justice Day, a day to remember all the men, women and youth who have died in prison. In Vancouver, a Memorial Rally was held with speakers including ex-prisoners and anti-prison activists.

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02nd Jun2012

“Love and Liberation” in MayDay and Boneshaker

by Anthony Nocella

MayDay Books and Boneshaker Books both in Minneapolis, Minnesota are now carrying copies of “Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story” that Sarat Colling and Anthony Nocella with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) wrote recently. Love and Liberation, published by  independent social justice press Piraeus Books, is a short fiction book about a common romantic couple in Houston, Texas that join the nonviolent radical underground Animal Liberation Front, identified by the FBI as a top domestic terrorist threat in the United States. The book is an easy fun read great for book clubs, environmental fiction college courses, social justice and peace studies courses, and as a wonderful gift. Dr. Melanie Joy, author of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, writes,  “‘Love and Liberation’ is a gripping tale of courage and compassion; it at once entertains and educates, inspires and informs. This short story manages to address a multitude of issues, all within a powerfully written narrative.”

06th May2012

Love and Liberation is Out

by Anthony Nocella

Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story
Sarat Colling and Anthony J. Nocella II
Lara Drew Illustrations
Published by Piraeus Books
http://piraeusbooks.com/index.html

ABOUT LOVE AND LIBERATION

A powerful one of a kind short-story of a romantic couple in Houston, Texas that joined the notorious Animal Liberation Front, an illegal nonviolent covert underground organization to liberation nonhuman animals. Love and Liberation covers topics such as intersectionality, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, social justice, racism, straightedge, and even capitalism.

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25th Feb2012

Kim Socha and Dylan Powell Interviewed on Animal Voices

by Anthony Nocella

MAD Update, SLAPP Lawsuits, and the 2012 North American Critical Animal Studies Conference

Dylan Powell is back on the show to not only give us an update on the Marineland Animal Defense campaign but to also talk about the ways that MAD and Shark Allies Niagara have dealt with the threat of SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). An important conversation considering the current climate of repression to environmental and animal rights activists.

After the break Kimberly Socha joins Dylan Powell to talk about the 11th Annual North American Critical Animal Studies Conference in Buffalo, New York from March 2-4, 2012 at Canisius College. We even get hear a little bit about Socha’s new book, “Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation“ the first publication of a new Critical Animal Studies book series.

28th Jan2012

2012 ICAS Award Winners

by Anthony Nocella

The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is pleased to announce our 2012 Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies Awards of the Year. Awards will be bestowed on March 3, 2012 during the conference at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY (March 2-4). We thank the many nominees for submitting their work. It was an honor to consider the wonderful nominations from around the world! Although the final decisions were difficult, we truly feel that the following award recipients have done superb work to help animals and end oppression. We are proud to recognize their contributions to the field of Critical Animal Studies.

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14th Dec2011

NEW BOOK: Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde

by Anthony Nocella

Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation
By: Kim Socha
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2012, XIV, 258 pp.
Pb: 978-90-420-3423-5
€ 54 / US$ 81

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women’s performance art, and popular culture to argue for the animal liberation movement as successor to the liberationist visions of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, most especially the Surrealists. These vanguard groups are judiciously critiqued for their refusal to confront their own misogyny, a quandary that continues to plague animal activists, thereby disallowing for cohesion and full recognition of women’s value within a culturally marginalized cause.

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13th Apr2011

Gene Baur at SUNY Cortland Tonight

by Anthony Nocella

Gene Baur
Author and Co-Founder of Farm Sanctuary

Book Signing and Talk

April 13, 2011

7 to 8pm

Moffett Hall 2125

SUNY Cortland, New York

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21st Mar2011

Book Talk April 2 – Call to Compassion

by Anthony Nocella

Book Talk – Call to Compassion with Anthony J. Nocella II
3 to 5
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Brooklyn’s Restaurant
206 Richmond St
Thorold, ON

“Covering doctrine and the lived experience of the world’s religious practitioners, Call to Compassion is a collection of stirring and passionate essays on the place of animals within the philosophical, cultural, and everyday milieus of spiritual practices both ancient and modern. From Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism, through the Abrahamic traditions, to contemporary Wiccan and Native American spirituality, Call to Compassion charts the complex ways we interact with the world around us.”

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Come join us at Brooklyn’s for some great vegan food and hear Anthony J. Nocella, co-editor of the book, talk about and expand upon its focus and intent.

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08th Mar2011

Dr. Melanie Joy is Coming to Central New York

by Anthony Nocella

Dr. Melanie Joy presents: “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism”
Monday – March 28, 2011

This slide show is based on the critically acclaimed book of the same name. In Why We Love Dogs…social psychologist Melanie Joy explains carnism, the invisible belief system that shapes our perception of the meat we eat, so that we love some animals and eat others without knowing why. Joy explains how carnism, like other isms, (sexis…m, racism, etc.) is most harmful when it is unrecognized; and it is sustained by complex, hidden social and psychological mechanisms.
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08th Mar2011

10th Annual N.A. Conference for CAS at Brock U.

by Anthony Nocella

THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS CONFERENCE
March 31 and April 1, 2010
10th Annual N. American Conference for Critical Animal Studies

The Department of Sociology at Brock University announces a conference on “Thinking About Animals” to be held March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
This two-day conference will explore a variety of issues concerning the current and historical situation of nonhuman animals and interactions with humans.
The Department is organizing this conference with the assistance of the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, the Departments of English, Political Science, History and Visual Arts, the MA Program in Critical Sociology, and the MA Program in Social Justice and Equity Studies. We are also grateful for the generous support provided to the conference from Niagara Action for Animals (see NAfA link).
We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute of Critical Animal Studies as the 10th Annual North American ICAS conference (see ICAS link).
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