Scholarship, in any field, is a sujet sérieux. It is the noble, dignified enterprise of making the unknown known, of pursuing heights of knowledge and understanding never before attained. While bourgeois oppression of the proletariat and elitist monopolization of peer-reviewed journals prevents some of the best insights from academia from reaching the general public—the demos, as it were—we have taken upon ourselves the laborious task of compiling some of the most riveting excerpts from academic texts for the benefit of a broader, less capitalist audience. We hope you find these thought-provoking excerpts as revolutionary as we did.

The commons, food sovereignty, environmental justice, and buen vivir are among the topics emerging from this productive intersection between different frameworks, to which can be added the ecofeminist perspective. In this sense, it is possible to talk about the construction of common frames of collective action, which work not only as alternative diagrams of cooperation but also as producers of a collective subjectivity.

– Maristella Svampa, “Commodities Consensus: Neoextractivism and Enclosure of the Commons in Latin America,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 114, no. 1 (January 2005): 69.

In this paper, we build on such rethinking to outline a theoretically informed route to the stepwise construction of a joined-up transnational governance regime in hotly contested policy fields where no single actor can enforce a unilateral solution

– Christine Overdevest and Jonathan Zeitlin, “Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector,” Regulation & Governance 8 (2014): 23.

Aside from the questionlessness of Hegel’s negativity, the negative is that which generally and consistently cannot at all require an interrogation; because the negative, the negated, and the negating belong to negation.

– Martin Heidegger, Joseph Arel, Niels Feuerhahn, “Hegel”, Project Muse (2015): 30.

In order to understand empowerment, we need first to analyze the concept of power… [Rowlands] argues that genuine empowerment implies gaining ‘power to’ in order to resist and challenge ‘power over.’

– David Lewis, Non-governmental Organizations, Management, and Development (New York: Routledge, 2014), 168.

The purpose of the first chapter is to get the reader to think about thinking.

– Halpern, D., & Riggio, Heidi R. (2003). Thinking critically about critical thinking (4th ed.). Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

What issues surround queer performativity and human reaction to homosexual sex between and among dogs? Do dogs suffer oppression based upon (perceived) gender? [This paper] concludes by applying Black feminist criminology categories through which my observations can be understood and by inferring from lessons relevant to human and dog interactions to suggest practical applications that disrupts hegemonic masculinities and improves access to emancipatory spaces

– Helen Wilson (2018) Human reactions to r*** culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon,Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1475346***

*** This article was actually a hoax, submitted (apparently) to test the peer-review system. We debated whether or not to include it, but since we thought it was funny, we did it. Don’t be mad 😦