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Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis (2018)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Weiss-Hanrahan, N. (2018). Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, 2(4), 55-73

How can critical theory help us to articulate the nature of social suffering in twenty-first century capitalism, and to expand our horizons of possibility for liberation and alternative futures at a moment of apparent impasse? In this essay, we explo... Read More about Relearning liberation: critical methodologies for the general crisis.

Critique and possibility in cultural sociology (2018)
Book Chapter
Weiss-Hanrahan, N., & Amsler, S. (2018). Critique and possibility in cultural sociology. In L. Grindstaff, M. M. Lo, & J. R. Hall (Eds.), Routledge handbook of cultural sociology, 64-72. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Critique and judgment were once regarded as the distinguishing features of an emancipatory social science, yet their role in the study of culture has become contested in recent years. Cultural sociologists became disenchanted with critical theory in... Read More about Critique and possibility in cultural sociology.

Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’ (2018)
Journal Article
Amsler, S. (2018). Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 16(2), 775-781. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1042

This article presents a report on the international conference ‘Beyond University: Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’, organised by the Kocaeli Dayanışma Akademisi (Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity) in Kocaeli, Turkey on 30-31 March 2018.... Read More about Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’.

Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times (2018)
Journal Article
Andreotti, V., Stein, S., Sutherland, A., Pashby, K., Susa, R., & Amsler, S. (2018). Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times

In this article we present four social cartographies with the intention to contribute to different conversations about global justice and education. The cartographies aim to invite curiosity, depth, reflexivity, openness, and the expansion of sensib... Read More about Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times.

Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market (2018)
Book Chapter
Shadymanova, S., & Amsler, S. (2018). Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market. In J. Huisman, A. Smolentseva, & I. Froumin (Eds.), 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: Reform and Continuity (229-257). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52980-6_9

© 2018, The Author(s). Between 1991 and today, the Soviet system of state-funded and Communist Party controlled higher education institutions (HEIs) in Kyrgyzstan has been transformed into an expansive, diverse, unequal, semiprivatized and marketized... Read More about Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market.