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Only We Can Protect Us: Labor and Anti-Harassment Organizing within the Neoliberal University

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  • Erin O’Callaghan

    (Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, Andrew G. Clark Bldg, 301 University Ave #219, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA)

  • Veronica Shepp

    (Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA)

Abstract

This special issue has called for scholars to critically evaluate how we can better connect with community activists to address gender-based violence (GBV). We seek to complicate this by instead positing the following: scholars and community activists should be one in the same. The authors reflect on their experiences combining their anti-GBV and labor organizing to take on the neoliberal university. We detail our experiences organizing graduate workers around anti-harassment and discrimination, what we have learned, and make recommendations to other scholar-activists working in their communities. We end with a toolkit that is meant to be widely produced and shared within the community for a helpful guide to work towards direct actions to address gender-based violence.

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  • Erin O’Callaghan & Veronica Shepp, 2023. "Only We Can Protect Us: Labor and Anti-Harassment Organizing within the Neoliberal University," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-11, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:6:p:330-:d:1162985
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