[eccr] Intl Network of Scholar Activists

>Dear colleagues,
>
>I invite you to visit the website of a newly formed international
>organization: INOSA, or the International Network of Scholar Activists.

http://www.inosa.org


>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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