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Friday, August 13, 2010

Neoliberalism as Water Balloon


Just came across this playful presentation on neoliberalism by Tim McCaskell who should be a national treasure. Tim worked for many years for the Toronto District School Board in the anti-racism department. Thousands of Toronto highschool students went through multiculturalism and anti-racism workshops that Tim was instrumental in leading. A leading queer activist and educator in Toronto, Time has also published Race to Equity: Disrupting Educational Inequality.

In addition to a persuasive presentation about the flaws of neoliberalism, this video begins with a powerful graphic presentation about the structure of inequality according to class, sex, sexual orientation and "race". This alone makes the video pedagogical gold. I highly recommend this resource (either showing the video or reproducing some of its contents yourself).

3 comments:

  1. Hi Chris, Thanks for sharing this video. It is SO clear and concise! I love his deadpan delivery....I really felt the horror of the picture he creates, despite his throw away style! Very Brechtian!
    Niki

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  2. Fayyaz Ali4:47 pm

    Dear Chris,
    When the balloon exploded, my heart almost stopped. Brilliant video, and I intend on showing this to my grade 9 class.
    Hope you are well and life is good!

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