In Practice: From Art Education to Liberatory Transformation

In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation examines the relationship between settler institutions of higher education and the settler state and the carceral logics that both produce the border politics of university campuses and police our disciplines, discourses, and communication styles. It also investigates how these structures impact pedagogical and curricular practice. It is a book about consciousness-raising in service of various forms of resistance and resistance’s relationship to teaching.

The methods and models discussed in In Practice are applicable to anyone who wants to unlearn patterns of behavior that perpetuate and collude with oppressive structures like settler white supremacy, transphobia, and ableism. The book encourages the application of the practices it elaborates so readers can subvert and disrupt violent social norms in their personal and professional lives. The practices and narratives contained within this book are based on teaching methods developed and tested over two decades of working in higher education contexts. Through a combination of storytelling and tool sharing, the book potentiates a break with the paradigm of the isolated individual and encourages relational accountability that can foster sustainable, mutual relationships in the face of late-stage capitalism.

In Practice: From Higher Education to Liberatory Transformation takes as its premise that it is possible to squat the forms that settler institutions of higher education recognize as their own for the purpose of disrupting their violent inner workings.