Boone W Shear
Biographic Data
| ID | 4045737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boone W Shear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boone W |
| FAMILY NAME | Shear |
| SIGNATURE | SHEAR B W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2226-4440 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction to the Symposium on Rethinking Postcapitalist Politics
This brief essay introduces the “Symposium on Rethinking Postcapitalist Politics: Building Solidarity Against Racialized Extraction” appearing in Rethinking Marxism vol. 35, no. 1. Rather than the last word on postcapitalist politics in the journal, other activists and scholars are invited to build on and respond to the questions raised as a continuing thread of publications
The Punishment Monopoly
This review engages with Pem Davidson Buck’s The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States. We position the book in relation to the political-cultural context of the United States, and outline and describe the general arguments and contours of the text. We then think with and in relation to Buck’s arguments in order to suggest the need for a politics of possibility—of exposing, defending, and…
Fight and build
From Worker Self-Directed Enterprise Analysis to Solidarity Economy Movement
In Transcending Capitalism through Cooperative Practices, Catherine P. Mulder asserts that “the goal of Marxian scholars should be to rid workplace exploitation and the various processes that secure its conditions of existence” as well as “the myriad restraints put on alternatives to capitalism.” Toward this end, Mulder explores six contemporary “alternative” economic enterprises, including, most prominently, Worker Self-Directed Enterprises, to …
Conjunctural Politics, Cultural Struggle, and Solidarity Economy
In this expansive interview, Kali Akuno explores the current political-cultural conjuncture in the United States. Thinking through the responses to the pandemic and the Floyd Rebellion, Akuno analyzes the violence of and tensions between an escalating white supremacy, on one hand, and an intractable (neo)liberalism that is attempting to capture and channel the energies and ideas of the Left, on the other. Akuno locates direction for the Left amid…
Rethinking Marxism
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Toward an Ontological Politics of Collaborative Entanglement
In this essay I reflect on and theorize efforts to teach, learn, and advance solidarity economy, a movement and design project to create the conditions for community determination and collective well-being. I draw from five years of ethnographic work and two years of teaching efforts to reassemble the resources at hand into a pedagogical intervention along the lines of what Jon Law (2004) describes as a "methods assemblage," a set of practices, t…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Vincent Lyon-Callo and Boone W. Shear In the spring of 2017 a student came into my (Shear's) office to discuss coursework for the coming semester as well as life after college. As we talked a bit about how they were thinking about their future plans, their usually easy conversational flow sputtered and stiffened. They became visibly uncomfortable, hesitating and shifting in their seat. I asked if they were okay, …
Learning away from neoliberalism
In this essay, I envision the university, not simply as a discreet institution with formal boundaries to attend to and defend from neoliberal and conservative assaults, but as a location of possibility from which to locate and advance projects that connect students and ourselves to the possibility of other economic worlds
Reading neoliberalism at the university
Ongoing transformations of the university - from changing working conditions to issues of affordability and access, increasing 'accountability' measures and commodification of academic production - are increasingly referred to as university corporatisation and are unfolding within and concomitant to neoliberal globalisation. In this paper we outline some of these processes as they are occurring at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and explo…
The Green Economy
In this essay I report on and briefly consider the composition, goals, and practices of some social actors in the green economy movement in Massachusetts, where I live. While cognizant of elite interests and state power that are working to shore up capitalist relations of production, I choose to amplify some of the openings and possibilities for intervention and transformation in the green economy rather than focusing on critique or (the very rea…
Inside the Zoo
On a September evening in 2005, the Kalamazoo, Michigan City Commission's poverty subcommittee held a public hearing in a church in one of the city's poorer areas. The purported goal was uncovering what city government could do to help economically vulnerable citizens. One commissioner asked what the city commission could do to "help you achieve the American dream." As another commissioner put it, "We're here to listen. You are the experts in you…
Gramsci, Intellectuals, and Academic Practice Today
This essay follows a series of events on the campus of a public university in the Midwestern United States. By examining some of the contemporary political-economic and cultural conditions affecting universities, I explore the production of and constraints on intellectual practice. Building from Antonio Gramsci's conceptualization of intellectuals, I argue that academic intellectuals and academic practices are produced within a highly politicized…
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Fight and build
The Green Economy
In this essay I report on and briefly consider the composition, goals, and practices of some social actors in the green economy movement in Massachusetts, where I live. While cognizant of elite interests and state power that are working to shore up capitalist relations of production, I choose to amplify some of the openings and possibilities for intervention and transformation in the green economy rather than focusing on critique or (the very rea…
Gramsci, Intellectuals, and Academic Practice Today
This essay follows a series of events on the campus of a public university in the Midwestern United States. By examining some of the contemporary political-economic and cultural conditions affecting universities, I explore the production of and constraints on intellectual practice. Building from Antonio Gramsci's conceptualization of intellectuals, I argue that academic intellectuals and academic practices are produced within a highly politicized…
From Worker Self-Directed Enterprise Analysis to Solidarity Economy Movement
In Transcending Capitalism through Cooperative Practices, Catherine P. Mulder asserts that “the goal of Marxian scholars should be to rid workplace exploitation and the various processes that secure its conditions of existence” as well as “the myriad restraints put on alternatives to capitalism.” Toward this end, Mulder explores six contemporary “alternative” economic enterprises, including, most prominently, Worker Self-Directed Enterprises, to …
Conjunctural Politics, Cultural Struggle, and Solidarity Economy
In this expansive interview, Kali Akuno explores the current political-cultural conjuncture in the United States. Thinking through the responses to the pandemic and the Floyd Rebellion, Akuno analyzes the violence of and tensions between an escalating white supremacy, on one hand, and an intractable (neo)liberalism that is attempting to capture and channel the energies and ideas of the Left, on the other. Akuno locates direction for the Left amid…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Vincent Lyon-Callo and Boone W. Shear In the spring of 2017 a student came into my (Shear's) office to discuss coursework for the coming semester as well as life after college. As we talked a bit about how they were thinking about their future plans, their usually easy conversational flow sputtered and stiffened. They became visibly uncomfortable, hesitating and shifting in their seat. I asked if they were okay, …
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Gramsci, Intellectuals, and Academic Practice Today
This essay follows a series of events on the campus of a public university in the Midwestern United States. By examining some of the contemporary political-economic and cultural conditions affecting universities, I explore the production of and constraints on intellectual practice. Building from Antonio Gramsci's conceptualization of intellectuals, I argue that academic intellectuals and academic practices are produced within a highly politicized…
Inside the Zoo
On a September evening in 2005, the Kalamazoo, Michigan City Commission's poverty subcommittee held a public hearing in a church in one of the city's poorer areas. The purported goal was uncovering what city government could do to help economically vulnerable citizens. One commissioner asked what the city commission could do to "help you achieve the American dream." As another commissioner put it, "We're here to listen. You are the experts in you…
Reading neoliberalism at the university
Ongoing transformations of the university - from changing working conditions to issues of affordability and access, increasing 'accountability' measures and commodification of academic production - are increasingly referred to as university corporatisation and are unfolding within and concomitant to neoliberal globalisation. In this paper we outline some of these processes as they are occurring at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and explo…
The Green Economy
In this essay I report on and briefly consider the composition, goals, and practices of some social actors in the green economy movement in Massachusetts, where I live. While cognizant of elite interests and state power that are working to shore up capitalist relations of production, I choose to amplify some of the openings and possibilities for intervention and transformation in the green economy rather than focusing on critique or (the very rea…
Learning away from neoliberalism
In this essay, I envision the university, not simply as a discreet institution with formal boundaries to attend to and defend from neoliberal and conservative assaults, but as a location of possibility from which to locate and advance projects that connect students and ourselves to the possibility of other economic worlds
Rethinking Marxism
In this essay the new editorial team introduce themselves, acknowledge the theoretical lineages and problematics that the journal has and will continue to explore, and highlight some of the themes that we expect to explore in the coming volumes. The essay provides both an account of the trajectories of capitalism through the last three decades (neoliberal and neocon counterrevolutions; the insurrection of the multitude, or the global crowd in the…
Toward an Ontological Politics of Collaborative Entanglement
In this essay I reflect on and theorize efforts to teach, learn, and advance solidarity economy, a movement and design project to create the conditions for community determination and collective well-being. I draw from five years of ethnographic work and two years of teaching efforts to reassemble the resources at hand into a pedagogical intervention along the lines of what Jon Law (2004) describes as a "methods assemblage," a set of practices, t…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Vincent Lyon-Callo and Boone W. Shear In the spring of 2017 a student came into my (Shear's) office to discuss coursework for the coming semester as well as life after college. As we talked a bit about how they were thinking about their future plans, their usually easy conversational flow sputtered and stiffened. They became visibly uncomfortable, hesitating and shifting in their seat. I asked if they were okay, …
From Worker Self-Directed Enterprise Analysis to Solidarity Economy Movement
In Transcending Capitalism through Cooperative Practices, Catherine P. Mulder asserts that “the goal of Marxian scholars should be to rid workplace exploitation and the various processes that secure its conditions of existence” as well as “the myriad restraints put on alternatives to capitalism.” Toward this end, Mulder explores six contemporary “alternative” economic enterprises, including, most prominently, Worker Self-Directed Enterprises, to …
Conjunctural Politics, Cultural Struggle, and Solidarity Economy
In this expansive interview, Kali Akuno explores the current political-cultural conjuncture in the United States. Thinking through the responses to the pandemic and the Floyd Rebellion, Akuno analyzes the violence of and tensions between an escalating white supremacy, on one hand, and an intractable (neo)liberalism that is attempting to capture and channel the energies and ideas of the Left, on the other. Akuno locates direction for the Left amid…
The Punishment Monopoly
This review engages with Pem Davidson Buck’s The Punishment Monopoly: Tales of My Ancestors, Dispossession, and the Building of the United States. We position the book in relation to the political-cultural context of the United States, and outline and describe the general arguments and contours of the text. We then think with and in relation to Buck’s arguments in order to suggest the need for a politics of possibility—of exposing, defending, and…
Fight and build
Introduction to the Symposium on Rethinking Postcapitalist Politics
This brief essay introduces the “Symposium on Rethinking Postcapitalist Politics: Building Solidarity Against Racialized Extraction” appearing in Rethinking Marxism vol. 35, no. 1. Rather than the last word on postcapitalist politics in the journal, other activists and scholars are invited to build on and respond to the questions raised as a continuing thread of publications
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Solidarity (6 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Economics (4 works)