Pedagogy Apr 2019

Subverting Austerity

Collie Fulford

Abstract

This article examines the development of advanced writing curricula at a historically black public university during postrecession austerity measures. Analysis of institutional documents suggests that advocates enacted self-determined curricular changes by using strategies of subversive resilience to neoliberalism. Simultaneously accommodating and resistant, this form of resilience has roots in anticolonial, African American, and feminist responses to oppressive conditions.

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Pedagogy
Published
2019-04-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-7295900
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