[csaa-forum] FYI: Intl Network of Scholar Activists

[Melissa Gregg]

Forwarded from the Canadian CS list:

http://www.inosa.org
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I invite you to visit the website of a newly formed international
> organization: INOSA, or the International Network of Scholar Activists.
> The Network was formed at the Fifth World Social Forum this past winter
> by a group of scholars, students and activists from around the world.
> It is the outcome of on-going discussions by a number of groups that
> began at the Third World Social Forum in 2003.
>
> The guiding aim of the Network is to mobilize those involved in
> tertiary education globally to take up the political challenges that
> arise out of their particular social roles and positions. The aim of
> the Network is "to promote more egalitarian relationships of mutual
> learning between individuals and organizations working within
> universities and those in other parts of civil society." It has three
> main goals and objectives:
>
> 1. Support civil society: Promoting two-way flows of information that
> are necessary for developing relationships of trust and mutual respect
> between universities and civil society.
>
> 2. Democratize and Socialize Knowledge: resist the expanding
> commodification of knowledge, which exacerbates the already gaping
> inequities in our world
>
> 3. Oppose neoliberalism on university campuses
>
> Some ideas on how to pursue these objectives are listed on the front
> page of the site, which is still a work in progress.
>
> I invite you to join the listserv, which currently has a low message
> volume (you won't be swamped). The site is currently maintained in
> English and Spanish, with plans to add Portuguese and French in the
> near future.
>
> I also invite you to look at an interesting essay by Michael Denning,
> which was presented at the meetings that led to the formation of INOSA.
> It can be found at:
> http://www.yale.edu/amstud/denning_lineaments_neoliberal_university.pdf
>
> All the best,
> Imre Szeman
> Director, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
> McMaster University / Canada
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Melissa Gregg
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