Davin Phoenix
davinphoenix.bsky.social
Davin Phoenix
@davinphoenix.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof, UC Irvine Political Science | UMich PhD | He Him | My 1st book, The Anger Gap: https://t.co/x0Cd1vxiAi?amp=1 | Working on the 2nd one: something about love
We analyze the show’s ideological collapse between the left & the far right as we raise the question: when output of the nation’s largest media empire labels young people engaged in very real social movement struggles as terrorists, what possibilities fall away from our political imagination?
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Our chapter, Redemption, Radicals, and Race, interrogates how the MCU’s "The Falcon & The Winter Soldier" series frames the villains--a multi-racial youth-led movement whose politics resonate w/ Occupy, BLM, Standing Rock, & pro-Palestine movements--as a terroristic on par w/ superpowered villains
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Thinking about what enactment of radical visions of change to the education system could look like. Something like what the Panthers imagined. Which often resonates with what many contemporary critical pedagogues imagine. Thinking about how this kind of system would instruct & uplift Mahmoud Khalil
March 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Thinking about the different forms of violence that the education system, as part of a larger sociopolitical ecosystem, inflicts on students who dare to exist, think, speak out, and/or move outside of its edicts and values, no matter how hypocritical those edicts and values are.
March 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Our first piece, Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the BPP is viewable now via Open Access in The Annals of the American Association of Geographers. We grapple w/ how the Party situated its approach to praxis w/in local & figurative space
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party (BPP) engaged in a total struggle for liberation. Through engaging in a multitactical struggle, the BPP revolutionized multiple aspects of daily life to organize the masses ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM