ICAS board member Kim Socha and long-standing activist Sarahjane Blum have recently published Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism (McFarland & Co. Publishing, Inc.), a collection of essays by activists from the Twin Cities, MN. This book provides an opportunity for everyday activists, many of whom did not consider themselves writers before this book, to explain why they advocate for nonhuman animals while inspiring others with their narratives and strategies.

Confronting Animal Exploitation web site

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

The Institute for Critical Animal Studies had an exciting and fruitful year in 2012. Click on the YouTube link below and have a look!

When: July 6th (Saturday) at the University of Canberra, Australia

The conference aims to raise consciousness and dialogue among the academic, activist and student community about the oppression of non-human animals, which is intrinsically connected to a larger social justice framework and movement for total liberation. The inaugural ICAS Oceania conference aims to increase awareness of CAS in the Australia-Pacific region aims to further development of an interdisciplinary approach to social change.

Held at the University of Canberra, this day-long conference will contribute to the solidification of CAS theory and praxis in Australia, interdisciplinary scholarship and linkages with other progressive movements.

Open to diverse topics and areas, suggestions for areas of engagement and reflection include

• Intersectionality in theory and praxis
• Gender, sexuality and veganism
• Race, class and Critical Animal Studies
• The interdisciplinary turn
• The rise of nonhuman animal activism in Australia
• Effective approaches to social change

Where:  Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Hosted by: MCTC Philosophy Club

THEME:
Breaking the Silence on Global and Local Intersections of Ethnicity, Spirituality and Nonhuman Animals

As the poor become poorer, more prisons are constructed, and the global south struggles with exploitation, disease, hunger, and mass displacement, social justice activists are becoming more intolerant of global racism and discrimination. In kind, the theme of this year’s annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies is the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, animals, and spirituality. Some of the foundational questions that the conference is interested in discussing include: Can activists compare struggles of racism to nonhuman animal suffering? What is the intersectional history of ethnicity and animals? Do you have to be anti-racist to be an animal advocate? How has religion aided in the marginalization of people of color and nonhuman animals? How has religion aided in the liberation of people of color and nonhuman animals? How, if at all, do animal advocates challenge colonization, imperialism, and racism? What are the theoretical and scientific similarities between racism and speciesism? How have different ethnic and spiritual groups addressed animal advocacy?

This international conference aimed to raise consciousness and prompt conversation among current graduate and undergraduate students about the oppression of nonhuman animals related to the larger global intersectional social justice movement for total liberation. Watch the presentations that took place.

http://www.youtube.com/user/criticalanimaltheory?feature=mhee

Kim Socha, Director of the ICAS Center of Academic Excellence, and Meg Perret, ICAS intern, will have chapters published in the soon-to-be released book Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat (http://www.lanternbooks.com/detail.html?id=9781590564196), published by Lantern Books. Be sure to check out Kim’s “Opening Veins” and Meg’s “Queering the Dinner Table,” along with all of the other excellent chapters by a new generation of activists and scholars who continue to challenge patriarchy, speciesism, and patriarchal speciesism.

ICAS intern and doctoral student Sarah Bezan organized an inter-disciplinary open-dialogue discussion forum at the University of Winnipeg concerning the use of animals as food. Sarah reports: “[The event was] a great success, and a number of people mentioned to me that the event broke the barrier between [so-called] ‘food animal’ producers and their critics, leading to a meaningful and productive dialogue about the ethical relationship between [nonhuman] animals and humans.”

1st Annual Conference of Students for Critical Animal Studies
Theme:
Social Justice, Students, and Animals
February 1 to 3, 2013
Vassar College, New York, USA

SAVE THE DATES!

Free the Animals—Effective Action Against Vivisection Conference

March 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 2013 – Gainesville, Florida

Details of speakers, registration, accommodations, coming soon!

http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/event-20130301.html

Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2012

 Samuel Day Fassbinder, Editor

• Introduction, Samuel Day Fassbinder  p. 2
• Survive, Critique, and Create: Guiding Radical Pedagogy and Critical Public Scholarship with the Discursive Guideposts of Ecopedagogy, Tema Milstein  pp. 3-16
• Creating Eco-Social Culturally Responsive Educators With Community,  James Joss French  pp. 17-34
• Practices of Inverting the Law: Internal Colonialism in Fort Belknap,  Giancarlo Panagia,  pp. 35-54
• Book Review: Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle, By Matthew Klingle.  2007.  Jeffrey Bilbro  pp. 55-58
• Book Review: Wendell Berry: Life and Work. Ed. Jason Peters. 2007.  Aubrey Streit Krug  pp. 59-61