ANU Feminist Utopias 2017 - The academic as artist and activist
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 2018-01-14

Teresa Jopson, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Political and Social Change, ANU, says amidst the dystopic climate in neoliberal academia scholars in various parts of the world have resisted through artistic and activist engagements. In this presentation, Jopson explores how academics as artists and activists can be effective public intellectuals, and considers the public intellectual’s individual and collective tasks. Public intellectuals need to step up their game and contribute to realising utopias through collaborative productions. Jopson suggests that feminist visions of transforming society must include transforming the ways academics create and share knowledge, to imagine a utopic world of academics as artists and activists organised in collectives to effectively address inequalities and social injustice.