Prof. Andrew Ross Joins General Debt Strike Discussion
Sunday, November 10th, 4:00 PM until 6:00 PM
34 Avenue A 3rd floor, 10009
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On Sunday, November 10, Andrew Ross joins the BHQFU lecture series to hold a conversation on debt resistance, the Occupy Student Debt campaign, and related efforts in in the struggle against the human and environmental costs of economic growth.
Bio: Andrew Ross (born 1956) is a professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. A writer for The New York Times, Artforum, The Nation, Newsweek and The Village Voice, he is also the author and/or editor of numerous books. Much of his writing focuses on labor, the urban environment, and the organization of work, from the Western world of business and high-technology to conditions of offshore labor in the Global South. Making use of social theory as well as ethnography, his writing questions the human and environmental cost of economic growth, has an activist, alternative globalization approach, and emphasizes principles of sustainability. Outside his academic discipline he is notable for having jointly won in 1996 an Ig Noble Prize for Literature for his part in the Sokal affair.
