[Xmca-l] Re: AERA Session: Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar: Lessons From Cultural-Historical Activity Research

[Michael Tan]

Hi Francine-

What sort of lesson would you like us to take from Mr. Bezmenov's
interviews?

mike



On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Larry Smolucha <lsmolucha@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Message from Francine Smolucha:
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> This link has an interview that would be of interest to activist./scholars
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> https://youtu.be/K4kHiUAjTvQ
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> [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K4kHiUAjTvQ/hqdefault.jpg]<htt
> ps://youtu.be/K4kHiUAjTvQ>
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> Yuri Bezmenov - KGB Defector on "Useful Idiots" and the True Face of
> Communism<https://youtu.be/K4kHiUAjTvQ>
> youtu.be
> The USA is at this moment a destabilized nation on the way to crisis. In
> this interview from 1984, Yuri Bezmenov articulates the method.
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> ________________________________
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> on behalf of Carrie Lobman <carrie.lobman@gse.rutgers.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2018 9:33 AM
> To: xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu
> Subject: [Xmca-l] AERA Session: Being/Becoming an Activist Scholar:
> Lessons From Cultural-Historical Activity Research
> 
> Hello XMCAers,
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> 
> I am very pleased to be chairing this timely and important session at AERA
> in a few weeks (Monday April 16). The idea for Being/Becoming an
> Activist-Scholar <http://tinyurl.com/ybdkh6kw> was born at last years
> conference in San Antonio where I felt a shift as more and more people,
> particularly graduate students, were identifying as activist scholars or
> were seeking to engage in activism. I believe as socio-cultural and
> activitists we have much to offer this conversation and a responsibility to
> lead and teach.
> What Is a 21st-Century Activist Scholar to Do?<http://tinyurl.com/ybdkh6kw
>> 
> tinyurl.com
> To the naïve mind revolution and history seem incompatible. It believes
> that historical development continues as long as it follows a straight
> line. When a change comes, a break in the historical fabric, a leap—then
> this naïve mind sees only catastrophe, a fall, a rupture; for the naïve
> mind history ends until back again straight and narrow. The scientific mind
> on the contrary, views revolution as the locomotive of history, forging
> ahead at full speed; it regards the revolutionary epoch as the tangible,
> living embodiment of history. A revolution solves only those tasks which
> have been raised by history; this proposition holds equally true for
> revolution in general and for aspects of social and cultural life.
> (Vygotsky as quoted in Leviathan, 1982). Socio-cultural theory was born of
> activism. It emerged in the early, most improvisational moments of the
> Russian Revolution, and one of its continuing provocations is that it does
> not claim to be objective or apolitical. Vygotsky and his followers located
> thei
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> I was thrilled that Kris Guitierrez, Lois Holzman, and Anna Stetsenko
> agreed to be our featured speakers as they each bring a long history of
> rigorous scholarship and activism but from with different frameworks,
> activities and communities. These three presentations will jumpstart a
> conversation with an invited panel of emerging and established scholar
> activists who will collectively interview and respond to the presentations
> and lead a discussion with the audience.
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> Please get the word out as widely as possible.
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> http://tinyurl.com/y7zguva7
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> 
> Carrie
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> Carrie Lobman, Ed.D.
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> Chair, Department of Learning and Teaching
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> Graduate School of Education
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> Rutgers University
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