Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education : Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education

Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education is a cutting-edge investigation of the alarming state of education today. This practical how-to handbook gives readers tactics and strategies to organize and challenge forces that threaten liberatory critical education. Drawn from scholars and activists from across the world, the fifteen chapters guide readers through a strategic method of understanding the academic industrial complex and corporate education in the twenty-first century. Education is being hijacked by banks and corporations that are tearing apart the foundational fabric of academic freedom, resulting in mass standardized education and debt for all students and furthering racial inequity. This is a must-read for anyone interested in democracy, education, social justice, critical pedagogy, and Black Lives Matter.

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., an activist-scholar, is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Criminology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Environmental Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies at Fort Lewis College. He has published over twenty-five books, including Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex (2010).

Erik Juergensmeyer, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric and Coordinator of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Fort Lewis College. He is Editor of the Green Theory and Praxis Journal and Managing Editor of the Peace Studies Journal.