Gramsci at Sea SHARAD

Explores how university governance is restricted by ceremony and what it must do to survive

University shared governance is a microcosm of regulation and thrives particularly on ceremony to communicate its relevance. While many investigations of university governance examine representation, Opening Ceremony offers that, instead, stakeholders’ belief in institutional values can invite revision of stagnant governance practices. Governance tells us what the rules are, but it also tells us how to feel: opening up the ceremonial communication of this system invites new participants to rewrite how universities respond to felt needs. Kathryn J. Gindlesparger considers how to break the seal of ceremony to invite voices not traditionally heard in governance and, in doing so, protect the ideals of the institution and rebuild trust in higher education.

Kathryn J. Gindlesparger is associate professor of writing and rhetoric and director of the University Writing Program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

EDUCATION/AMERICAN STUDIES

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JULY

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Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism

How might an oceanic Gramsci speak to Black aquafuturism and other forms of oceanic critique? This succinct work reads Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the sea, focused in his prison notes on waves of imperial power in the inter-war oceans of his time. Sharad Chari argues that the imprisoned militant’s method is oceanic in form, and that this oceanic Marxism can attend to the roil of sociocultural dynamics, to waves of imperial power, as well as to the capacity of Black, Drexciyan, and other forms of oceanic critique to “storm” us on different shores.

Sharad Chari is associate professor of geography and critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley, and is affiliated with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies. He is author of Fraternal Capital and Apartheid Remains (forthcoming).

THEORY/PHILOSOPHY

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AUGUST

106 pages 5 x 7

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