摘要：To the political and ethical crises of environmental devastation, capitalistic and imperial endurances, violence against the vulnerable, and occupation and war, we must respond. And yet, within the contemporary academy in the United States, rare is dissent, for instance, against continued state - sponsored military violence in the Middle East 1 — or, for that matter, against the epidemic of sexual violence across campuses 2 or the neoliberal administrations that relegate the humanities to service d epartments, handmaidens of the vocational. 3 Instead, actions endorsed by administrators, faculty, parents, and ultimately students often serve a politics (and thereby an ethics) not of dissent , but of consent . 4 As such, students sensitive to social crises are encouraged to pursue, for instance, the Peace Corps or Teach for America, two organizations critiqued for their "savior" mentalities and colonial models — the former in the rural Global South, the latter in the urban United States.
