Introduction: Learning to Learn from Seattle

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-12

  Szeman, Imre ^a  

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EID: 84906722813     PISSN: 10714413     EISSN: 15563022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10714410212921     Document Type: Editorial

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1. Prior to the 2000 Organization of American States (OAS) Ministerial Meeting in Windsor, Ontario, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police carried out security checks on arriving protestors and massively increased the size of Its police force. Similar actions were taken at the World Petroleum Conference (WPC) meeting in Calgary, Alberta, in summer 2000.
2. Dirlik, Arif. 2000. “Globalizatlon as the Beginning and End of History.”. Rethinking Marxism, 12.4 See, for instance
3. 1996. Bill Readings, The University in Ruins, 9Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univeristy Press.
4. Turk, James, ed. 2000. The Corporate Campus: Commercialization and the Dangers to Canada's Colleges and Universities, Toronto: James Lorimer & Company.
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6. Cockburn, Alexander, and St. Clair, Jeffrey. 2000. diary of the protests in Seattle, 5 Days That Shook the World, New York: Verso.
7. The first of many books on Seattle, was published in October 2000. By that time, there were at least three widely distributed videos available on Seattle: Showdown in Seattle R.I.P. WTO and the Independent Media Center's excellent So This is What Democracy Looks Like.
8. Klein, Naomi. 2001. “Reclaiming the Commons,”. New Left Review Q,: 81–89.
9. Burtless, Gary. 1998. GIobaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade, Washington, DC: Brooklngs Institution.
10. Scott, Janny. 2001. “In 90s Economy. Middle Class Stayed Put. Analysis Suggests.”. The New York Times, August 31 A report commissioned by The New York Times reveals much the same thing: In the 1990s in New York and California, the poor got poorer, the rich got richer, and middleclass incomes stagnated
11. Harmes. 2001. Unseen Power: How Mutual Funds Threaten the Political and Economic Wealth of Nations, Toronto: Stoddart. As Adam Harmes points out, the revolution In mass investment has mainly benefited the financial services sector, inflating profits to the point where, in Canada, it now constitutes the most profitable segment of the economy. See
12. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1998. On Television, trans. Priscilla Parkhurst-Ferguson, New York: New Press. The media continues, of course, to legitimatize the status quo through its very structure. Recent analyses of the way in which the mass media constitute a pervasive form of public education in civic (i.e., consumerist) values are vital to understanding the spread of the rhetoric of globalization. See, for example
13. Giroux, Henry. 2000. The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
14. Negri, Antonio. 1999. “The Specter's Smile.”. In Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx, Edited by: Sprinker, Michael. 5–16. New York: Verso.
15. Glynn, Kevin. 2000. Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. and Pierre Bourdieu, On Television