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“Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism”
Special Issue for
Wagadu: Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies

Special Volume Edited By:

Kathryn Coffey, Ph.D.
SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York
Kathryn.Coffey@cortland.edu

Traditionally, transnational feminists have examined the fields of gender, sexuality and LGBTQ studies by critically addressing issues of colonialism, white supremacy, globalization, capitalism, and heterosexism. Like most fields within higher education, gender and sexuality studies, women’s studies, and LGBTQ studies are still dominated by white scholars; moreover these are predominately scholars from colonial ‘western’ cultures. In 2010 in the journal Pedagogy, Donald E. Hall asks the question: Can queer studies be taught across borders?  Many universities and activist groups are arguing for a global queer community and movement for rights, protection, and freedoms for members of LGBTQ communities. From the academy to the streets, members of the LGBTQ community are challenging global heterosexism. The questions remain: Is there a global queer identity? And, do queer scholars and activists unite with an international socio-political economic identity that challenges borders, barriers, and boundaries (the 3Bs of Domination) related to heterosexism? This special issue of Wagadu is dedicated to an interdisciplinary, intersectional, multi-movement, and multi-dimensional critique of heterosexism, associated with all systems of domination which promote racism, ableism, sexism, ageism, and classism. The editors are especially interested in the following issues:

• Feminist/Radical feminist perspectives on heterosexism
• Inclusion of queer studies and pedagogy in academia, from elementary school to higher education
• Unfolding the concept of trans in relation to borders and sexual and gender identity
• Heterosexism in the military industrial complex and prison industrial complex
• Analyzing heterosexist labor and immigration practices
• Global queer activism and its impact on heterosexism
• Heterosexism in international film, music, literature, and other forms of media
• Critiques of global heterosexism rooted in white supremacy, capitalism, systems of domination, and imperialism
• Social inclusion and change
• Profiting from queer identity and communities
• White supremacy in queer communities
• Patriarchy in queer communities
• Global gentrification by queer community of poor marginalized communities
• Queer anarchism
• Challenging Heteronormativity in animalia
• Disability and queer global perspectives
• Intersections of heterosexism and anti-racist global resistance
• LGBTQ environmental activism
• Hate crimes and hate crime legislation
• Gay marriage as repressive institution

Please send abstracts (500 words minimum 1,000 maximum) by November 1, 2012 and, if accepted for publication, complete essays by March 1, 2013. All submissions should be submitted to www.wagadu.org

Please send inquiries to: Dr. Kathryn Coffey, SUNY Cortland, New York – Kathryn.Coffey@cortland.edu

The Global Industrial Complex:
Systems of Domination
Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Peter McLaren, and Anthony J. Nocella II

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD: Michael Parenti

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION: Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Peter McLaren, and Anthony J. Nocella II

CHAPTER ONE: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours, Noam Chomsky

CHAPTER TWO: The Corporate War Economy, Carl Boggs

CHAPTER THREE: The Security Industrial Complex, Ward Churchill

CHAPTER FOUR: The Media-Military Industrial Complex, Toby Miller

CHAPTER FIVE: The Criminal (Justice) Industrial Complex, Mechthild Nagel

CHAPTER SIX: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: The Non-Profit
Industrial Complex, Andrea Smith

CHAPTER SEVEN: Higher Education’s Industrial Model, Cary Nelson

CHAPTER EIGHT: The Agricultural Industrial Complex, Vandana Shiva

CHAPTER NINE: Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial
Complex, David Nibert

CHAPTER TEN: Bad For Your Health: The U.S. Medical Industrial Complex
Goes Global, Asif Ismail

CHAPTER ELEVEN: College Sports: It’s All About the Money!, Earl Smith
and Angela Hattery

CHAPTER TWELVE: Driving to Carmageddon: Capitalism, Transportation,
and the Logic of Planetary Crisis, Michael Dawson

AFTERWORD: Peter McLaren

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK

“At a time when it is increasingly more difficult to find insightful and accessible work challenging the structural and ideological foundations of neoliberal economic savagery, The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination provides a key resource for such a task. This is a wide ranging and thoughtful book that not only critically analyzes the deepening and myriad forms of global market authoritarianism but also offers the theoretical tools to challenge it. A must read for anyone concerned about the promise of a real democracy and the economic, political, and cultural forces subverting it.”

- Henry Giroux, author of “Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism: Global Uncertainty and the Challenge of the New Media”

“Human society is organized in a way that privileges a tiny minority at the expense of the vast majority of humanity and to the detriment of the entirety of the non-human world. With this collection, Best, Kahn, Nocella, and McLaren intervene in that and ask the question: ‘Might things be done another way?’ The answer, of course, is a resounding ‘Yes!’ Read this book and join us in creating a world free of the constraints placed on us by domination in all of its myriad forms!”

- Deric Shannon, co-author of “Political Sociology: Oppression, Resistance, and the State”

“With capitalism battering the Third World and forcing the First World to lower its expectations of opportunity, human rights and a future, getting an unflinching, intelligent look at so-called recessions, superprofits and resistance is needed more than ever. Who better to illuminate politics, social movements and finance than this constellation of authors? None better can present matters of such urgency as accessibly or sharply.”

- Ernesto Aguilar, Program Director, KPFT, Pacifica Radio

“This penetrating, insightful book written by a collection of the world’s most prominent public intellectuals, is a skilled combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of what the contributors term the ‘global industrial complex’. The authors combine scholarship with insight, erudition with moral passion as they critique the fundamental direction in which our world is moving financially, politically and economically. The conclusions are radical and profound. No activist, academic or student can afford to ignore their arguments.”

- Dr. Susan L. Thomas, Director, Gender and Women’s Studies; Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies and Political Science, Hollins University

“In this book, leading American radical scholars provide important insights into interlocking networks of power under global capitalism. This fine collection of essays is a useful tool for those seeking to understand and alter the corporate structures that dominate our world.”

- Dr. John Sorenson, Chair, Department of Sociology, Brock University

“Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination” offers a systematic look at the frightening institutions that shape our lives — frightening not just because of their power but because of how deeply embedded they are in modern culture. This is what a world defined by hierarchy looks like, and it ain’t pretty.

- Dr. Robert Jensen, professor, University of Texas at Austin

“An excellent, well-researched, and richly informed compendium on the nature of global exploitation and power, a nourishing corrective to the vapid evasions we are usually fed.”

- Michael Parenti, author of The Face of Imperialism (2011) and God and His Demons (2010)

“The Global Industrial Complex makes an immense contribution to the literature by engaging the key thoughts and ideas of some of the most important, influential and outspoken public intellectuals of our time. In doing so the book provides not only a searing and devastating critique of contemporary ‘capitalist’ society, but also engages in a full frontal assault on the poverty of imagination evident in those who refuse to believe that there are real alternatives, and that active resistance is necessary to achieve them. It deserves to be read widely.”

- Richard White, Editor of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies

6PM October 20, 2011
East Hall 106, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN

STUDENT PERFORMANCES

… Sponsored by the School of Education and
the Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching

Priya Parmar

Priya an Assistant Professor at CUNY Brooklyn is a leading scholar in hip-hop pedagogy and author of two books including Lyrically Minded and Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip-Hop Artist KRS-ONE. Her scholarly interests include critical, multiple literacies, multicultural education, youth culture.

Daniel Hodge

Daniel, a hip-hop scholar, focuses on race relations, film, cultural trends, and spirituality. He received his Ph.D. from Fuller Graduate School. His most recent book is The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs and a Cultural Theology. A former music producer, Daniel helped mix Bone Thugs & Harmony’s first album E 1999 Eternal.

Hasan Stephens

Hasan Stephens, AKA DJ Maestro, born and raised in the Boogie Down BX, currently teaches hip-hop studies at Hillbrook Youth Detention Facility and SUNY Cortland. He has shared stages with such classic Hip hop groups such as Boogie Monsters, Bushbabees, Supernatural, Big Daddy Kane, and Mos Def. In 1999, Maestro landed a spot at Viacom’s MTV Networks.

Don C. Sawyer III

Don was born and raised in Harlem, NYC. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Sociology in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and teaches hip-hop in the Sociology Department at Syracuse University. He earned a M.A. in Sociology and M.S. in Education from Syracuse University and a B.A. in Psychology from Hartwick College. He is active in his local community finding alternative ways to educate youth of color and increase their access to higher education.

Toki Wright

Toki is the Program Coordinator for the first hip-hop diploma in the U.S. at McNally Smith College of Music. Toki is a Twin Cities based emcee, poet, and community organizer. He is the newest artist on Rhymesayers Entertainment. Wright has been featured on recordings by Atmosphere, C-Rayz Walz. P.O.S., and more. His performance credits include Scribble Jam, SXSW, Coachella, Bumbershoot, Sons d’Hiver, and Prairie Home Companion.

Martha Diaz

Martha is the founder and director of the Hip-Hop Education Center at New York University’s Metropolitan Center. As a community organizer, educator, media producer, archivist, and social entrepreneur, Diaz has been dedicated to innovating communities, advancing social justice, cultivating leaders and artists, and mentoring youth for nearly 20 years. She is co-Editor of the Hip-Hop Education Guidebook, Vol. I and an Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Gallatin School.

The Help Increase the Peace Project (HIPP) was developed by the Noble-Prize winning American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) staff in Syracuse, New York, in 1991 as a conflict transformation workshop to address the epidemic of violence in society. HIPP is based on the conviction that nonviolence and participation in our communities can better each of us and our world. HIPP is conducted worldwide in more than twelve countries and twenty-eight US states. HIPP is not therapy, but a therapeutic, experiential, engaging, collaborative, peace oriented group-building conflict transformation workshop promoting nonviolence, literacy, and social justice.

Facilitated by Anthony J. Nocella II Visiting Professor in the School of Education at Hamline University, board member of the American Friends Service Committee, and Director of Twin Cities Save the Kids. Anthony, who is working on his tenth book, has provided conflict transformation trainings, workshops, and courses for the last ten years throughout North and South America at universities, prisons, communities centers and for law enforcement, sports teams, and the military.

Thursday – Sept 29, 7PM
MayDay Books
301 Cedar Avenue Minneapolis, MN

“This courageous and chilling book reminds us that the Academy is always a context for intellectual exchange and political struggle. Don’t miss it!”

Cornel West, Princeton University

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The extreme repressive attacks on Smith, Pellow, Finklstein, Fontan, Best, Massad, the “Dirty Thirty,” and many others represented in this book demonstrate the repressive logic of “US democracy,” whereby political elites, the mass media, and the education system establish and police the parameters of acceptable discourse. While there has been much research on political repression carried out by the Bush administration, FBI, and various law enforcement agencies, there has been little discussion on political repression in academia and how the shockwaves of 9/11 have reverberated throughout academia.

PRESENTERS:

• Anthony J. Nocella II is a Visiting Professor in the School of Education at Hamline University and a leading scholar in anarchist studies and editor of “Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex (2010).

• David Pellow is the Don Martindale Endowed Chair in Sociology at University of Minnesota and a leading scholar in the field of environmental justice.
  

• Kimberly Socha is a Assistant Professor in English at Normandale Community College and a leading scholar in critical animal studies.