Archive for October, 2009

University neoliberalism in America: Greenwood on Spellings

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

I hadn’t meant to take such a long break from the blog. I will try to write weekly, at least, since there is so much here in France to write about. But for the time being, one more in a series of posts on neoliberalism…
Davydd Greenwood, an economic anthropologist turned action researcher from Cornell University, [...]

A university call to arms after an unsuccessful strike

Friday, October 9th, 2009

A question that has interested me since my arrival in France has been the following: how do participants in last spring’s university protests sustain their political hopes in light of the seemingly limited success of their actions last spring? I asked around last June about this and got some nebulous answers about how you just [...]

The origins of university real estate

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

A friend of mine recently asked if I knew anything about the history of the college quad as a place of free speech and debate. I didn’t, but I’ve done a tiny bit of research in the last couple of days and the results are interesting. Among other things, I observe something of a historical [...]

A UMP student looks back on French protests

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Time to get back to France and to my ambition to make French academic life more visible to anglophone audiences via this blog. I have a long list of stuff I want to post soon, but this will have to do for now — Le Monde here in France just published an article with a [...]