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9M Per què fem vaga?

Des de la Plataforma Unitària en Defensa de la Universitat Pública (PUDUP) hem decidit fer vaga el dia 9 de maig. Com moltes de vosaltres ja sabeu, els sindicats majoritaris han convocat la seva tradicional vaga de final de curs. Nosaltres no li veiem sentit a les vagues d’un dia, i menys quan estan convocades pels sindicats que formen part de l’estructura de l’estat i que són tan culpables com els partits polítics de la situació en la que ens trobem actualment.

No obstant això, tot i no agradar-nos aquesta tàctica de mobilització d’últim moment per encobrir les traïcions, no ens podem negar a fer la vaga ja que es tracta d’una vaga unitària de tot el sector educatiu, des de bressol fins a universitats, i que combrega a tots els sectors de la comunitat educativa: estudiants, professorat, personal d’administració i serveis i famílies. Com que creiem i defensem la unitat de la lluita i la necessitat de que estudiants i treballadores fem front comú per donar resposta a les constants agressions a l’educació, hem decidit convocar vaga el dijous dia 9, mantenint un discurs crític.

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Manifestació diumenge 28A, 11h pl.Universitat + Resum visual “escrache” a Mas-Colell

Dig 28 abril. Manifestació: Aturem els pressupostos antisocials

La Plataforma Unitària en Defensa de la Universitat Pública sortirà al carrer aquest 28 d’abril per dir NO als pressupostos que vol aprovar la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Aquests pressupostos aprofundiran en la retallada dels drets socials més bàsics i en la precarització de la vida de les persones. Una vegada més els nostres serveis públics pagaran les irresponsabilitats, la corrupció i els interessos de polítics, banquers i grans empresaris. Nosaltres sortirem al carrer per continuar reivindicant una Universitat pública i popular. Com hem demostrat en les darreres setmanes, farem el que faci falta per a defensar allò públic: talls de carreteres, preses de ràdios, escarnis populars, bloqueig de decisions que impliquin acomiadaments, vagues, denúncies judicials, ocupacions, performances, etc. Nosaltres diem NO aquests pressupostos i estem convençudes que existeixen alternatives al Capitalisme…

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Plantation Memories, Episodes of Everyday Racism

by Grada Kilomba

In her book, Grada Kilomba combines both academic writing and lyrical narrative creating a strong new literary style, which is as political and political (scholastic) as it is poetic and emotionally expressive. The book is based on a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories.

“‘Plantation Memories’ is a fervent, strong, and elaborated piece, which deconstructs the normality of racism, making visible what is often made invisible. From the question “Where do you come from?” to “How do you wash your hair?”, to the use of the N-word, the author exposes the violence of always being placed as the Other. The book is essential to anyone interested in Black studies, Post-colonial studies, Critical Whiteness, Gender studies and Psychoanalysis.” (Unrast Verlag)

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Decolonizing European Sociology . Transdisciplinary Approaches

Edited by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, University of Manchester, UK, Manuela Boatca, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany and Sérgio Costa, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Decolonizing European Sociology builds on the work challenging the androcentric, colonial and ethnocentric perspectives eminent in mainstream European sociology by identifying and describing the processes at work in its current critical transformation. Divided into sections organized around themes like modernity, border epistemology, migration and ‘the South’, this book considers the self-definition and basic concepts of social sciences through an assessment of the new theoretical developments, such as postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and whether they can be described as the decolonization of the discipline.

With contributions from a truly international team of leading social scientists, this volume constitutes a unique and tightly focused exploration of the challenges presented by the decolonization of the discipline of sociology.

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The Emergence of the Political Subject

by Marina Grzinic, March, 2013, Skopje / http://emancipationofresistance.wordpress.com/grzinic/

I took part in the conference in Skopje entitled Emancipation of the resistance, organized by NGO Kontrapunkt in collaboration with many partners in the region. The point of departure at the conference regarding resistance made me think what is the concept of the resistance today? I connected this question with memory and history, and as well with the specific context of Macedonia that was part of the space of former Yugoslavia.

On such a basis memory and history have to be re-thought in connection to the wars in the Balkan, former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and in relation to the aftermath of the wars’ “monumentalizations” in the time of global capitalism and of the construction of the EU as “Fortress Europe.” My thesis is that the ways of monumentalization or de-monumentalization of the war in the 1990s in the Balkan, former Yugoslavia (Macedonia is not excluded from this process, as we have to think of the 2001 events in Macedonia), have several paradoxical, pathological and tragic faces in the political and social realm of global capitalism.