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Resisting Neoliberal Schooling: Dismantling the Rubricization and Corporatization of Higher Education

Resisting Neoliberal Schooling: Dismantling the Rubricization and Corporatization of Higher Education, edited by award-winning author and professor Anthony J. Nocella II, is the first book that critiques the use of rubrics in assessment and evaluation within education and the effects of the rubric as a tool for social and intellectual control. This powerful theoretical intervention… Read more »

Radical Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation

Radial Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation is a scholar-activist book emerging out of the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS). Radical Animal Studies (RAS) edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Kim Socha recognizes and values the goal of total liberation and the importance of underground revolutionary direct action. RAS is a… Read more »

Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies: A Historical Collection

Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies: A Historical ColleIntersectionality of Critical Animal Studies: A Historical Collection Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George ______________________ Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies: A Historical Collection represents the very best that the internationally scholarly Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) has published in terms of articles that… Read more »

The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies: Toward Eco-ability, Justice, and Liberation

Review What a fascinating opportunity for making reciprocal connections between authentic inclusion in Nature and its parallels in human society. In this one book we are poignantly offered ideas about how we can change our socially constructed illusions about normalcy as relate to “ability-diversity” in both sociological and ecological relationships for the sake of a… Read more »

Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education: Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education

Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Education: Resistance, Reclaiming, Organizing, and Black Lives Matter in Education Series: Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation (Book 3) Hardcover Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; New edition edition (November 14, 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 1433133148 ISBN-13: 978-1433133145 Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds   Fighting Academic Repression and Neoliberal Educationis… Read more »

From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Priya Parmar, and David Stovall Date: 2014 _________________________________________________________________ The school-to-prison pipeline is a national concern, from the federal to local governments, and a leading topic in conversations in the field of urban education and juvenile justice. From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is… Read more »

The Terrorization of Dissent: Corporate Repression, Legal Corruption, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act

Published by Lantern Books Date: 2014 Co-edited by Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella II _________________________________________________________ Description In 2006 the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) was passed with the intention to equip law enforcement agencies with the tools to apprehend, prosecute, and convict individuals who commit “animal enterprise terror.” But, as many have come… Read more »

Educating for Action: Strategies to Ignite Social Justice

Educating for Action: Strategies to Ignite Social Justice Published by New Society Press Co-edited by Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella Date: 2014 _________________________________________________________ Description Educating for Action shares the voices of activists whose combined experience in confronting painful injustice has generated a wealth of key insights for creating social change. An engaging, practical… Read more »

Defining Critical Animal Studies: An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation

Defining Critical Animal Studies: An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation Edited by: Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha, and Atsuko Matsuoka Book Series: Shirley Steinberg’s “Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education” ISBN 978-1-4331-2137-1 hb.  (Hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4331-2136-4 pb.  (Softcover) _____________________________________ This is the first book to define the philosophical and… Read more »

Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement

Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement Edited By: Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard __________ With the rise of the corporate university and the academic industrial complex, colleges and universities throughout the United States are becoming monitored, armed, gated, and contracted out in the name of security. Policing the Campus… Read more »

The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement

The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration  Movement Mechthild Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella II ______ This book brings together a collection of social justice scholars and activists who take Foucault’s concept of discipline and punishment to explain how prisons are constructed in society from nursing homes to zoos. This book expands the concept… Read more »

Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis

Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis edited by Benjamin Frymer, Tony Kashani, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Richard Van Heertum Date: 2010 Published by Palgrave __________ Hollywood’s Exploited is an interdisciplinary anthology that provides a compelling analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts and the larger industry and society in which they develop…. Read more »

Call to Compassion: Religious Perspectives on Animal Advocacy

Covering doctrine and the lived experience of the world’s religious practitioners, Call to Compassion is a collection of stirring and passionate essays on the place of animals within the philosophical, cultural, and everyday milieus of spiritual practices both ancient and modern. From Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism, through the Abrahamic traditions, to contemporary Wiccan and Native… Read more »

Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story

Gabrielle and Andre are an everyday couple working up the corporate ladder in Houston, Texas. With a brand new condo, plans for marriage and successful careers, their lives are set – or so they think. One night Gabrielle inadvertently gets a glimpse into the underground world of animal liberationists. Unsure what to make of it,… Read more »

The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics

The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let’s toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we’re at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists for a first-of-its-kind study of anarchist economics. The editors aren’t trying to subvert the… Read more »

Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy

This volume of collected essays by some of the most prominent academics studying anarchism bridges the gap between anarchist activism on the streets and anarchist theory in the academy. Focusing on anarchist theory, pedagogy, methodologies, praxis, and the future, this edition will strike a chord for anyone interested in radical social change. This interdisciplinary work… Read more »

Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals

The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? features both academic and activist perspectives and offers powerful insights into this international organization and its position within the animal rights movement. Calling on sources as venerable as Thomas Aquinas and as current as… Read more »