This is work advancing post-capitalist politics that has emerged directly from or in collaboration with undergraduate student coursework, independent studies, and the like.
Post Capitalist Belonging at the University An article that explores how students are desiring and learning to enact collective care in the face of social and ecological precarity and in response to “student success” discourse. This is an initial look at some of the collaborative research that was conducted by the Mutual Aid Project (a collaboration between BSE, the Community Scholars Program, and Social Thought and Political Economy) in the Spring and Summer of 2023.
Mutual Aid Zines a series of three zines created by Mutual Aid Project member Abby Brooks in fall of 2023 highlighting the role of mutual aid among student movements on campus and the work of the Mutual Aid Project. Zine1Printversion, Zine2Printversion, Zine3Printversion.
Mapping and Taking Inventory of Massachusetts Cooperative Ecosystems–An inventory of worker-owned cooperatives, developers, technical assistance providers, education, and networks and movements and Massachusetts. The inventory as well as the associated report/guide were prepared by students in Anthropology 341 Building Solidarity Economies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the Spring of 2022 in collaboration with the Coalition for Worker Ownership and Power.