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

Erin O’Callaghan () and Veronica Shepp
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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

Social Sciences, 2023, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-11

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.

Keywords: sexual harassment; labor organizing; toolkit; scholar-activist (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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