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We are proud to announce the launch of Transformative Radio!
Join TSI at the Annual Conference of the Eastern Sociological Society, March 18-21
TSI is co-sponsoring the 8th Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies April 9-10, 2010 at SUNY Cortland, New York.
TSI supports photojournalist activism through project "Bringing in the Light: See Me"
Jeff Farias Interviews Dr. John Asimakopoulos (audio clip)
Support TSI through our Art Auction
AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 21st – Join our Global Book Parties on Facebook & MySpace March 4th
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Academic Repression: Reflection from the Academic Industrial Complex
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"This book puts the lie to the myth of academic freedom and that the university is an unabashed training ground for radicals." – Richard Kahn, University of North Dakota "Essential reading for anyone concerned about the stifling of dissent and free expression in academia and beyond." – Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive! Since 9/11, the Bush administration has pressured universities to hand over faculty, staff, and student work to be flagged for potential threats. Numerous books have addressed the question of academic freedom over the years; this collection asks whether the concept of academic freedom still exists at all in the American university system. It addresses not only overt attacks on critical thinking, but also—following trends unfolding for decades—engages the broad socioeconomic determinants of academic culture. This edited anthology brings together prominent academics writing hard-hitting essays on free speech, culture wars, and academic freedom in a post-9/11 era. It's a powerful response to attacks on critical thinking in our universities by well-respected scholars and academics, including Joy James, Henry Giroux, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Robert Jensen, Ward Churchill, and many more. |
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ABOUT
The Transformative Studies Institute (TSI) is a fully-volunteer interdisciplinary social justice policy based institute and graduate school.
We foster interdisciplinary research that will bridge multidisciplinary theory with activism in order to encourage community involvement that will attempt to alleviate social problems. As part of the mission, scholars, activists, and other concerned individuals in fields such as social sciences, humanities, and law will be invited to conduct research and become involved in like-minded various grass roots organizations. The Institute is concerned with issues of social justice and related activism, and its aim is to provide a working model of theory in action, through shared research, governance, and operation of the center. As such, the institute may provide a working laboratory for evolutionary socioeconomic forms of organization. Further, we invite literary participation through our independent, peer-reviewed journal Theory in Action, through which research associates, scholars, activists, and students may disseminate their research and expand thematic social dialogue. TSI also welcomes opportunities to work with national and international scholars who serve as research associates and fellows. In addition, the institute plans on collaborating with various worker education programs, labor centers, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups and non-profit organizations. TSI is managed and operated by a dedicated global team of academic scholar-activists, grassroots activists, and the concerned public. Many of TSI’s members have multiple graduate degrees, multiple years of secondary and college level teaching experience throughout most disciplines. TSI also provides consulting services, custom policy papers and projects, and operates a speakers’ bureau.
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…is an artist-produced open, critical journal that addresses the problem(s) of cultural forms, emerging from the crisis of modernity… (read more) |
In Search of One Big Union
A Singing Lecture by Corey Dolgon, Folk Singer & Sociologist. Corey Dolgon, a Ph.D in American Culture and Sociology Professor has been performing "singing lectures" for almost a decade. |
Kyung Ja Shin – TSI Art Therapist Proceeds help us to continue our mission for education & social justice. All donations & purchases are tax-deductible. |
