Teaching Day

Last week of my summer intensive at Berkeley begins today -- it's a week shortened by the holiday, and they are all deep in their final papers, so I'm expecting their reading to be patchy and their moods to be frayed and the class to be a bit ramshackle in consequence. We're shifting from epistemic violence and nonviolent resistence and abolition democracy to environmental violence as a kind of structural violence, reading Slow Violence (Rob Nixon) and a little eco-socialism (John Bellamy Foster) and environmental justice (Robert Bullard). But methodologically the day will be given over to ink-shedding (an in-class workshopping tool) and evals and some scattered notes. I could easily end up spending more time in office hours helping with last-minute panic about final grades and final papers than I do lecturing today...