Transforming the University by Ozan N. Alakavuklar https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5 final version en-us 2021-08-03 09:50:21 UTC 2021-08-03 11:53:29 UTC hello@padlet.com What counts as 'activism'? Am I an activist? dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667716276 2021-08-03 11:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667716276 What are our criteria for contributing to liberatory struggle? What techniques and practices can we build to hold ourselves and one another accountable? dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667716603 2021-08-03 11:07:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667716603 What practices can we adopt to foresee the consequences of our interventions? How do we respond to unintended consequences and harm? dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667717118 2021-08-03 11:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667717118 Translation, story telling, militant (Hela) https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667717541 2021-08-03 11:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667717541 How do we communicate our politics to others and work with conflict and difference? dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667718001 2021-08-03 11:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667718001 ...requires networks, publications, connections to editors, etc. --- in turns requires strategies and strategizing to support liberation https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667718219 2021-08-03 11:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667718219 Re-working concepts from our discipline e.g. 'accounting' as an intervention dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667719805 2021-08-03 11:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667719805 Acting and strategising locally - own institutions, small networks of institutions across a region dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667720895 We can be inspired by the work of others and not see the problems/dynamics manifest in the same way in our own institution]]> 2021-08-03 11:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667720895 Approaching intervention as 'contaminating' our discipline, institutions and communities dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667721217 2021-08-03 11:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667721217 Negotiating visibility and invisibility as a strategy for impact and survival dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667721467 2021-08-03 11:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667721467 Working with the opportunities of one's own context re: personal risk e.g. taking a more public platform online dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667723555 2021-08-03 11:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667723555 Is there more space for academic activist intervention and voice today? what does this offer us? what does it indicate? dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667724403 2021-08-03 11:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667724403 Many streams of thinking re: decolonising - rooted in different histories, stakes and strategies dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667725429 2021-08-03 11:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667725429 Create space for plurality of different political struggles and strategies but not at the expense of others dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667725874 2021-08-03 11:23:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667725874 Use privileges subversively to access spaces, engage in pedagogy dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667726773 2021-08-03 11:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667726773 Resources on localising academic/activism dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667730718 Mughal, F. (2021). When global meets local: Action learning, positionality and postcolonialism. Management Learning, 52(1), 65-85.

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Entrepreneurship as a Solution to Social Issues: Fostering New Insights and a Research Agenda (session 1108) https://2021.aom.org/meetings/virtual/rDgfKNJuHhHkmTZbY]]> 2021-08-03 11:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667730718 How to engage in activism without being exposed? Being a good person? Being active on Twitter? Developing solidarity and support? Influencing politics within my institution or thru associations (as AOM or QRCA)? https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667731092 2021-08-03 11:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667731092 How does one engage in activism but survive within academia? e.g. career 'currency' versus risk dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667732781 How much currency do we need to secure our survival?
For whom are the rules 'bent'?
Are there ways in which we can use rules to intervene in the institutions themselves? Liberal mechanisms and governance structures]]> 2021-08-03 11:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667732781 https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667733528 Use the rules and tools against the institutions themselves, knowing that the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house (as Audre Lorde put it)]]> 2021-08-03 11:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667733528 Taking seriously the need for sustenance and nourishment of those doing transformatory work dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667734151 2021-08-03 11:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667734151 Institutional funding dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667735098 Can we use our access to institutional funding and re-route into transformatory work? e.g. small grants
Using concepts such as 'impact' 'quality']]> 2021-08-03 11:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667735098 Academic activities dbrewis https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667737690 Writing
Lecturing/pedagogy
Building networks - connecting people to one another
Impact - facilitating dialogues outside the university, action research
Editorial roles - opening doors, legitimsing agendas and ideas. Supporting sharing and reviewing]]> 2021-08-03 11:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667737690 Giving special attention for people in underprivileged positions, be they students, colleagues or friends. https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667737730 2021-08-03 11:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ozanadir/7z9vm5q0kslhoto5/wish/1667737730