[GEOG MAJORS] Save the Date: November 6 @ 6pm -- “The University in Abolitionist Perspective, 1945-1968” with Nick Mitchell

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Climate Justice & Abolitionist Worldmaking presents
“The University in Abolitionist Perspective, 1945-1968” with Nick Mitchell
Monday, November 6 @6pm, Communications Building (CMU) 120, UW Seattle

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Description: “Education, not incarceration,” the saying goes. This talk seeks to complicate the premise on which this statement relies. Mitchell’s aim is to offer an abolitionist approach to university history. Recent abolitionist scholarship has emphasized the dual character of mass institutions in US capitalism: institutions must harness population surpluses so as to leverage labor surpluses. A paradox thus emerges: institutions increasingly central to the organization of labor become so by way of the mass production of nonwork, and of nonworkers.
Mitchell argues that it is this function–the mass production and absorption of nonworkers–that education and incarceration have work in common. From this perspective, an essential prequel to the emergence of mass incarceration came in the postwar era of the twentieth century. There, US state makers sought to avert the looming crisis of mass unemployment by way of the mass production of students. And in attending to this moment, the aspiration to fashion mass education as an alternative to mass incarceration faces a challenge: the development of the latter may belong, troublingly, to the historicity of the former.

Nick Mitchell<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/cres.ucsc.edu/faculty/regular-faculty.php?uid=nmitchel__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!ijl5fEOijI70nInOaKNpGU7f2XRrLBDPsjGARna7vDIZ3j23rz73lhmqdKC_pcOKB3SSxRhqpgZP$> (she/her) works in the Department of Feminist Studies and the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. As a researcher, Mitchell is principally engaged with the status of higher education in the U.S. as a problem for historical and theoretical inquiry. As a writer, Mitchell aims to make better sense of university life-worlds by developing scales, vocabularies, and categories to reframe and rethink its rhythms and textures.

Climate Justice & Abolitionist Worldmaking brings to the UW scholars, artists, cultural workers, and organizers whose work engages the interconnections between climate crisis, racial capitalism, and ongoing histories of colonialism. Centering abolitionist theory and practice, anticolonial visions of climate justice, theorizing from impacted communities, and Black, Indigenous, queer, and feminist knowledge traditions and worldmaking, the project includes public events, curriculum development for UW faculty, partnership with UW Libraries, and collaborations with local movements and organizations.

Megan Ybarra
she/her/hers
Associate Professor of Geography
Faculty Coordinator, Sustainability & Environmental Justice Minor initiative
University of Washington
Website: www.meganybarra.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.meganybarra.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!l9dG7KN4m7FM3GlULsfPlxnYWc0kFEn98Gx2BkVvne3YqzHU7tNhtT_ykoMnYR9TNH3muS48wGvB5w$>
Office Hours: https://meet.boomerangapp.com/mybarra.uw.edu/15mins<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://meet.boomerangapp.com/mybarra.uw.edu/15mins__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!l9dG7KN4m7FM3GlULsfPlxnYWc0kFEn98Gx2BkVvne3YqzHU7tNhtT_ykoMnYR9TNH3muS7sFbOQxA$>
Latest publication: Ybarra, M (2023) "Indigenous to where? Homelands and nation (pueblo) in Indigenous Latinx studies.<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://rdcu.be/cZZt7__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jGyY3sNd6ri1dB5AL6pbOZ2o3nGSbfG-r6QygMMh75hrhNQL50_GV7_XxcUBkSdfb9Qn3VoEole5fNSp_ss8h8dHynQPBufZ$>" Latino Studies 21: 22 - 41.

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