What is Solidarity?

In this episode, Sarah Stachowiak joins Carolina and Vidhya in reflecting transparently on our financial relationship. How does the owning class’s control over manufacturing processes and products show up in the knowledge economy and the evaluation of public and nonprofit/ nongovernmental programs? What does it mean for the “raw material” (data about/ from program participants)? For the “independence” of knowledge workers, who market ourselves in terms of how much more value we produce for the people who pay for our goods and services? Can we think of financial exchange differently? How could we organize accountability in knowledge work horizontally across class status—not necessarily around shared experiences of oppression, but rather around shared resistance against it?

⁠⁠Episode 1.4 TRANSCRIPT⁠

Notes

• 1:30: In solidarity with the Duwamish, we lift up this petition for federal recognition as well as their reparations program, Real Rent
• 6:47: The Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group (SIG) made is no longer available online. Read more here.
• 8:47: AEA’s statement is no longer available online but reprinted here
• 10:12: It was more like 6 weeks later, not 6 months later that the Advocacy & Policy Change TIG issued a statement
• 11:35: The only other statement that we are aware of AEA having made was issued in 2003. Read more here.
• 33:11: Read more about “kinder and gentler” here and here
• 35:29: The financial benefits are explained here

References

• ORS Impact
• Who Are We?
• What is anthropology?
• Making Ends Meet
• Kathryn Edin⁠
• ⁠Laura Lein⁠
• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
• The welfare queen myth shapes who we believe is deserving and fully human, and who is not
• EvalTalk
• AEA APC TIG
• George Zimmerman
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Criti