Summary

In this episode, Sarah Stachowiak joins Carolina and Vidhya in reflecting transparently on our financial relationship. How does the owning class’s control over manufacturing processes and products show up in the knowledge economy and the evaluation of public and nonprofit/ nongovernmental programs? What does it mean for the “raw material” (data about/ from program participants)? For the “independence” of knowledge workers, who market ourselves in terms of how much more value we produce for the people who pay for our goods and services? Can we think of financial exchange differently? How could we organize accountability in knowledge work horizontally across class status—not necessarily around shared experiences of oppression, but rather around shared resistance against it?

⁠⁠Episode 4 TRANSCRIPT⁠

Notes

• 1:30 : In solidarity with the Duwamish, we lift up this petition for federal recognition as well as their reparations program, Real Rent


• 6:47 : The Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group (SIG) made is no longer available online. Read more here.


• 8:47 : AEA’s statement is no longer available online but reprinted here


• 10:12 : It was more like 6 weeks later, not 6 months later that the Advocacy & Policy Change TIG issued a statement


• 11:35 : The only other statement that we are aware of AEA having made was issued in 2003. Read more here.


• 33:11 : Read more about “kinder and gentler” here and here


• 35:29 : The financial benefits are explained here

References

• ORS Impact


• Who Are We?


• What is anthropology?


• Making Ends Meet


• Kathryn Edin⁠


• ⁠Laura Lein⁠


• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act


• The welfare queen myth shapes who we believe is deserving and fully human, and who is not


• EvalTalk


• AEA APC TIG


• George Zimmerman


• American Educational Research Association (AERA)


• Critical Educators for Social Justice


• “Special Interest Group” (SIG)


• At‐risk programs: Evaluation and critical inquiry


• White nationalism appears to be connected ideologically to the growing Christian nationalism movement


• American Evaluation Association


• Remembering the El Paso massacre that targeted Latinos


• Multiethnic Issues in Evaluation (MIE) Topical Interest Group (TIG)


• APC Evaluators Actions to Undo Racism and White Supremacy in our Field


• Jared Raynor


• Robin Kane


• Zsuzsanna Lippai


• Anne Giennap


• Pledge of Refusal to Profit


• Causal Pathways


• On Capitalism’s Emotional Logics


• White Women’s Power in Nonprofits


• Toward an Understanding of Founder’s Syndrome


• Yvonne Belanger


• Solidarity Is Not a Market Exchange


• The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture


• Philanthropy & Movement Capture


• What is General Operating Support and Why is it Important?


• Hindolo Pokawa


• What Is A Co-op?


• Marxism and Worker Cooperatives


• Contradictions of Capitalism and Their Ideological Counterparts


• The New Politics of Ownership


• Identity Politics and Elite Capture


• The Curious Case of Self-Exploitation


• The fantasy of employability and the ironic struggle for self-exploitation


• Social Stratification


• Yes, I Said "National Liberation"


• Purity politics in compromised times


• From allies to comrades


• Why join the Intro to Decolonial Sustainability course from Possible Futures


• Colonialism, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism


• Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960


• Liberalism and the Idea of Toleration


• Neoliberalism


• Gramsci and hegemony


• Possible Futures


• How corporate “sustainability” evolves into hyper-colonial “regeneration”


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