UTOPIAN PEDAGOGY: RADICAL EXPERIMENTS AGAINST NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION Utopian Pedagogy is a critical exploration of educational struggles within and against neoliberalism. Editors Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter, along with a number of innovative voices from a variety of different academic fields and political movements, examine three key themes: the university as a contested institution, the role of the politically engaged intellectual, and experiments in alternative edu- cation. The collection contributes to the debates on the neoliberal trans- formation of higher education, and to the diffusion of social movements that insist it is possible to create workable alternatives to the current world order. This critical examination of the educational dimension of social and political struggles is presented by both professional academics and activists, many of whom are directly involved in the very experiments they discuss. Rescuing and revaluing the concept of utopia, the editors and their international contributors propose that utopian theory and practice acquire a new relevance in light of the hyper-inclusive logic of neoliberalism. Utopian Pedagogy is a challenge to the developing world order that will stimulate debate in the fields of education and beyond, and encourage the development of socially sustainable alternatives. (Cultural Spaces) mark coté is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and a visiting scholar with the Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University. richard j.f. day is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociol- ogy at Queen’s University. greig de peuter is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communica- tion at Simon Fraser University. This page intentionally left blank Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments against Neoliberal Globalization Edited by Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2007 Toronto Buffalo London Printed in Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8923-6 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-8020-8923-2 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8675-4 (paper) ISBN-10: 8020-8675-6 (paper) Printed on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Utopian pedagogy : radical experiments against neoliberal globalization / edited by Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day and Greig de Peuter. ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8923-6 (bound) ISBN-10: 0-8020-8923-2 (bound) ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-8675-4 (pbk.) ISBN-10: 8020-8675-6 (pbk.) 1. Anti-globalization movement – Study and teaching (Higher) 2. Social justice – Study and teaching (Higher) I. Coté, Mark II. Day, Richard J. F. III. De Peuter, Greig, 1974– LC191.9.U86 2007 303.48’4’0711 C2006-900053-0 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: What Is Utopian Pedagogy? 3 mark coté, richard j.f. day, and greig de peuter Part I: The Contested University Introduction 21 mark coté, richard j.f. day, and greig de peuter 1 Utopian Thinking in Dangerous Times: Critical Pedagogy and the Project of Educated Hope 25 henry a. giroux 2 Teaching and Tear Gas: The University in the Era of General Intellect 43 nick dyer-witheford 3 Academic Freedom in the Corporate University 64 ian angus 4 A Revolutionary Learning: Student Resistance/Student Power 76 mark edelman boren 5 Exiled Pedagogy: From the ‘Guerrilla’ Classroom to the University of Excess 93 jerry zaslove vi Contents 6 Universities, Intellectuals, and Multitudes 108 an interview with stuart hall Part II: Rethinking the Intellectual Introduction 129 enda brophy and sebastián touza 7 From Intellectuals to Cognitarians 133 franco berardi (bifo) 8 The Diffused Intellectual: Women’s Autonomy and the Labour of Reproduction 145 an interview with mariarosa dalla costa 9 Conricerca as Political Action 163 guido borio, francesca pozzi, and gigi roggero 10 On the Researcher-Militant 186 colectivo situaciones Part III: Experiments in Utopian Pedagogy Introduction 201 mark coté, richard j.f. day, and greig de peuter 11 The Making of an Antiracist Cultural Politics in Post-Imperial Britain: The New Beacon Circle 207 brian w. alleyne 12 ‘Before Coming Here, Had You Thought of a Place Like This?’: Notes on Ambivalent Pedagogy from the Cybermohalla Experience 227 shveta sarda 13 Transformative Social Justice Learning: The Legacy of Paulo Freire 242 carlos alberto torres Contents vii 14 Breaking Free: Anarchist Pedagogy 248 allan antliff 15 An Enigma in the Education System: Simon Fraser University and the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society 266 richard toews and kelly harris-martin 16 The Subaltern Act! Peasant Struggles and Pedagogy in Pakistan 280 imran munir 17 ‘Let’s Talk’: The Pedagogy and Politics of Antiracist Change 294 sarita srivastava 18 Present and Future Education: A Tale of Two Economies 314 michael albert Ne Travaillez Jamais: Parecon or Exodus? 324 a reply to michael albert by nick dyer-witheford Jobs Are Not the Problem 329 a reply to nick dyer-witheford by michael albert 19 Academicus Affinitatus: Academic Dissent, Community Education, and Critical U 334 mark coté, richard j.f. day, and greig de peuter Contributors 353 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments There are many people whom we, as editors of this collective project, would like to thank. First, we want to express our gratitude to all our contributors for making the book possible. From the beginning they shared and fed our enthusiasm for this project; the excellence of their submissions has taken the book beyond all our expectations; and the good nature with which they answered all our queries and requests made this a pleasurable process. We are also indebted to Siobhan McMenemy at University of Toronto Press for the steady hand and strong support she displayed from our initial proposal through to the printing press. As well, the geopolitical breadth of the book has been widened considerably thanks to our translators, Enda Brophy and Sebastián Touza, both of whom are out- standing and formidable activist-scholars in their own right. The manu- script was proofed, formatted, and massaged into shape by Rick Palidwor, to whom we are grateful for his fastidious work. We also would each like to thank our families. We are eternally grateful to our partners and children for reminding us that the everyday can provide the most wonderfully utopian moments. Finally, we want to thank all of those unnamed and unknown people who work in their communities with a commitment not only to peda- gogy but to a belief that a better world is not only possible, but already among us if we can only learn how to look for it.