Claim OwnershipThe Subversive Good: Disrupting Power, Transcending Inequalities
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‘We are only free when we are connected to others’ (Hannah Arendt)
What is not to like about a taco van, bought by wealthy parishioners, parked on a church lawn, staffed by undocumented immigrants, serving food to street dwellers - unless of course you work for immigration and have no jurisdiction to exercise your power on that property. This is the subversive good.
In this interdisciplinary seminar series we theoretically, aesthetically, methodologically and practically explore what happens when we forge spaces of encounter. We take as a starting point Kearney and Taylor’s 'sacrificial stranger' - persons or groups that are deemed to threaten social order, represent spectacles of unacceptability and so are forced to exist outside of legitimate citizenship. In juxtaposition to such understandings of ‘otherness’ we explore the ‘everyday ethics’ (Banner) of prioritizing connectedness within broader questions about borders, security, belonging, faith, personhood, education and justice.
We engage with these themes by considering institutional and disciplinary assumptions, motivations, enablers and constraints upon the capacity of ‘encounter’ to shift or alter understandings of selfhood, belonging, and what it means to an active member of the public sphere.
What is not to like about a taco van, bought by wealthy parishioners, parked on a church lawn, staffed by undocumented immigrants, serving food to street dwellers - unless of course you work for immigration and have no jurisdiction to exercise your power on that property. This is the subversive good.
In this interdisciplinary seminar series we theoretically, aesthetically, methodologically and practically explore what happens when we forge spaces of encounter. We take as a starting point Kearney and Taylor’s 'sacrificial stranger' - persons or groups that are deemed to threaten social order, represent spectacles of unacceptability and so are forced to exist outside of legitimate citizenship. In juxtaposition to such understandings of ‘otherness’ we explore the ‘everyday ethics’ (Banner) of prioritizing connectedness within broader questions about borders, security, belonging, faith, personhood, education and justice.
We engage with these themes by considering institutional and disciplinary assumptions, motivations, enablers and constraints upon the capacity of ‘encounter’ to shift or alter understandings of selfhood, belonging, and what it means to an active member of the public sphere.
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Not Shut Up: Creating Relational Spaces for Dialogue and Connectedness across Boundaries and Borders
David Newman (Political Geography)
Marek Kazmierski (Former Prison Governor, Not Shut Up)
Patrick McKearney (Anthropology/Divinity)
In)security discourses, imbued with moral credibility and political authority, produce exclusion and social segregation. This often jeopardises both perceptions of justice and active citizenship, in exchange for ‘security’. This seminar engages with non-securitised responses to different ‘risk’ populations. Marek Kazmierski (former prison Governor, previous editor of ‘Not Shut Up’ and now a publisher) will draw us into the world of the prison and the power of education to transcend divisions; Patrick McKearney (Anthropology/Divinity), will explore relational responses to the risk of violence in communities working with people with serious disabilities, and David Newman (political geography) will discuss his work in Israel on the role of space in shaping the political countours of peace processes.
Jasmine Bourne (Music)
Tom Hawker (Criminology)
Matthew Russell (Project CURATE)
Rowan Williams (Divinity, Master of Magdalene College)
This opening seminar will begin with an example of kinship through education from Cambridge Universities ‘Sing Inside’ students who run choral workshops in prisons. Rowan Williams (Divinity) will explore the politics of faith, space, meaning making and community in conversation with Matthew Russell, Executive Director of Project CURATE – the Center for Reconciliation and Theological Education, and an affilliate professor of practical theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in the US.
Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong hosted the second seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 27 October.
Speakers: Jacob Dunne (undergraduate criminologist, Nottingham Trent University), Ruth Armstrong (Criminology) and Amy Ludlow (Law).
Paolo Friere said: ‘Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.’ Contributors will engage with the constraints, realities and potential of education as the practice of freedom. Jacob Dunne (undergraduate criminologist Nottingham Trent) will draw on his own experiences and struggles in gaining access to higher education after serving a prison sentence and Ruth Armstrong (Criminology) and Amy Ludlow (Law) will draw on their experiences of teaching masters level criminology to a class of prisoners and Cambridge post-grads.
For more information on the whole series please visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-subversive-good
Amy Ludlow and Ruth Armstrong hosted the second seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 27 October.
Speakers: Jacob Dunne (undergraduate criminologist, Nottingham Trent University), Ruth Armstrong (Criminology) and Amy Ludlow (Law).
Paolo Friere said: ‘Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.’ Contributors will engage with the constraints, realities and potential of education as the practice of freedom. Jacob Dunne (undergraduate criminologist Nottingham Trent) will draw on his own experiences and struggles in gaining access to higher education after serving a prison sentence and Ruth Armstrong (Criminology) and Amy Ludlow (Law) will draw on their experiences of teaching masters level criminology to a class of prisoners and Cambridge post-grads.
For more information on the whole series please visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-subversive-good
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This was the third seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 10 November 2015.
Speakers: Baz Dreisinger (Prison to College Pipeline, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY), Karen Graham (Educational Sociology) and Ingrid Obsuth (Criminology)
How are security discourses shaping schools as spaces of learning and education as the ‘practice of freedom’? What are the impacts of securitisation upon social justice and inclusion? What if our prisons became hotbeds of learning and connection? Our dialogue will be led by Baz Dreisinger (founder and Academic Director of John Jay’s groundbreaking Prison-to-College Pipeline programme in New York), Ingrid Obsuth, (an expert in the socio-emotional, cognitive and biological aspects of the development and progression of delinquent and aggressive behaviour in young people) and Karen Graham (whose research focusses on the correspondence between experiences in school and in prison).
For more information on the whole series please visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-subversive-good
This was the third seminar in the ‘Subversive Good’ CRASSH series on Tuesday 10 November 2015.
Speakers: Baz Dreisinger (Prison to College Pipeline, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY), Karen Graham (Educational Sociology) and Ingrid Obsuth (Criminology)
How are security discourses shaping schools as spaces of learning and education as the ‘practice of freedom’? What are the impacts of securitisation upon social justice and inclusion? What if our prisons became hotbeds of learning and connection? Our dialogue will be led by Baz Dreisinger (founder and Academic Director of John Jay’s groundbreaking Prison-to-College Pipeline programme in New York), Ingrid Obsuth, (an expert in the socio-emotional, cognitive and biological aspects of the development and progression of delinquent and aggressive behaviour in young people) and Karen Graham (whose research focusses on the correspondence between experiences in school and in prison).
For more information on the whole series please visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-subversive-good
This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.
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