By Elliot Spector Even in Freire’s time, feminist scholars criticized Pedagogy of the Oppressed (PO) for its narrow focus on men, and today his assumption of a singular oppressed class appears outdated compared to the contemporary concept of intersectionality. However,… Continue Reading
By Nikita Lamba* For seminar 4/13, we turned to Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, which was published in his native Brazil in 1968, and translated from Portuguese into English in 1970. The conversation, featuring four panelists and moderated… Continue Reading
By Matheus Chatack Dias* One of the thornier problems of critical and liberatory theories is how to free the oppressed without infantilizing them or recreating the same structures of oppression. Paulo Freire attacks the problem with a sophisticated theory of mutual… Continue Reading
Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum, 1968. Rancière, Jacques. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.
Required Books Adorno, Theodor. Negative Dialectics. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 1966. Allen, Amy. The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Althusser et al. Reading Capital. New York: Verso,… Continue Reading
Webcasts for Critique 13/13, live or past, are available here and on the home pages of each seminar session: https://totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=critique1313
The Critique 13/13 seminars can be accessed virtually and you can fully participate in the series from a distance. Here are some ways to be part of the seminar even if you are not physically at Columbia University in New… Continue Reading