Appeal Wave Turin Tra il 17 ed il 19 maggio di quest’anno si terrà a Torino, promosso dalla CRUI, il G8 University Summit, a cui parteciperanno i rettori ed i presidenti degli atenei degli stati membri dell’istituzione this, together with those of many other countries, from Saudi Arabia to the Vatican, from China to South Africa is the second time that such action is organized after the onset in Sapporo in the summer of last year.These 'meeting is proposed as a direct contact with the G8 heads of state and government who will meet in Sardinia this summer and was given the goal, based on the fundamentally "neutral and objective" that characterizes the academic institution and the knowledge they produce and transmit, to recommend the "largest in the world" on human problems and how unacceptable pianeta.Riteniamo organization of the initiative, who assume the function of the rectors, the conception of the relationship between academia and the social dynamics and the political and economic power that is given, whether express or implied, and of course the other person chose. These, the G8, has represented over the decades one of the pillars of the neoliberal order, now in crisis, thanks to the resources and power concentrated in the member countries and its ability to be part of a complex web of relationships with other bodies supra, which operated through a continuous consultation, rather than with specific ad hoc decisions, but thus contributing to the overdetermined system of international relations ed il complesso delle politiche economiche e sociali. Oggi l’istituzione vede il suo declino, già in atto da anni, accelerarsi nella crisi globale; la pretesa dei rettori di correre a rilegittimarlo è da contrastare senza esitazioni, oltre ad avere un carattere perfino paradossale. Naturalmente è altrettanto inaccettabile che nel farlo essi si ripropongano come rappresentanti dell’intero mondo dell’università; a prescindere dall’importanza che si può attribuire all’iniziativa specifica, ravvisiamo in questo un’ulteriore conferma del processo in atto di concentrazione e verticalizzazione degli organi e degli strumenti decisionali in atto nel sistema accademico e che, per quanto riguarda l’Italia, is widely reflected in the recent document of the CRUI on governance. Rectors repainting of the green G8Probabilmente feel there argue that the theme chosen by the summit does not allow a clear contrast: on the basis of the results of the previous presidents of the G8, July 2008, ( www.g8u-summit.jp), the work will be devoted to sustainable global, social, human health or to name the Rector of the Politecnico di Torino, Perfume, one of the most active promoters of the event, the "5E" (Energy, Economy, Ethics, Environment and Education). We are convinced, on the contrary, that it was the total lack of credibility of these individuals faced with issues such as environmental devastation and inequality worldwide actually reinforces the reasons for the protest. If the G8 is, if anything, a major contributor to that to which it purports to remedy, on the other hand, even the managers of the universities (albeit in different ways), have shared responsibilities in multi-level devices "neoliberal globalization", contributing to the questioning of the status of "common good" of the processes of production and transmission of knowledge, acceptance and deployment of the mechanisms of the tools of financial activities in the promotion of modes of production and use of knowledge in contrast to the sensitivity to which we refer, when we talk about "sustainability." It comes natural to think of U.S. academic institutions that have coexisted with a massive expansion of debt students graduate and later workers, forced to resort to loans to support studies, creating, among other things, a real its financial bubble at risk of explosion and the relationship they have with the system of firms, particularly conditioning, as regards the destination of the knowledge products and their accessibility, and, again, one can not but mention the invitation of 'AAU (Association of American Universities), which collects most of the institutions North American academic, President Obama, to continue to support the Minerva Initiative, for the militarization of the humanities and social sciences and strengthen cooperation between the Pentagon and the Department of Energy (Policy Recommendations for President-Elect Obama). But this is just a few examples, because the list could be much lungo.L 'insostenibileAll universities' image of the university which will be proposed summit in Turin, we intend to oppose the description and analysis of its real condition, the contradictions characterize it, the dynamics operating within it. Meanwhile, let's start with an observation, the university is in crisis. Crisis that is intertwined with the global one and this is reflected in converging, starting this autumn in Italy, Greece and France (but see better, not only in these countries) movement against the university reforms and policies on education and research with the struggles against the effects of the university's deep unease economica.Il certainly a first, obvious reason for the cuts of public funds, operating for years, but, meanwhile, should be read in the politics of resources not only the effects of more general strategies of the state budget, but also the tool with which to enforce and accelerate the changes that have invested a total of more than academia. Here we are di fronte al problema di dover parlare di processi che non riguardano solo l’Italia e che evidentemente, nei diversi contesti nazionali, hanno conosciuto modulazioni diverse, eppure tratti comuni ci sono.L’università sta mutando i propri principi costitutivi, i propri sistemi di finanziamento, l’organizzazione del lavoro della didattica e della ricerca, le “missioni” che si attribuisce, il significato che attribuisce alla formazione. Da un’istituzione che si organizzava su base soprattutto nazionale e trovava le ragioni della propria legittimazione al proprio interno, si sta passando ad un sistema dove gli attori sono i singoli atenei, strutture suscettibili di riconfigurazioni continue, in rapporto con l’ambiente exterior, which administer the shortage of resources by adopting organizational structures best companies. Research is increasingly driven to mediarsi with the business system and the market, training is legitimate as a benefit to buy and not as a public service. Resulting in an overall unstable system, it turns out that fragility exposed to new, increasingly imposing heavy costs on those who study and those who work within it, in a word, "unsustainable." However, we want to see these processes of a given point of view, or as the outcome, still open, a crash on the new quality of knowledge production, forms of control, exploitation of those who produce them, put them in place, turn them. Two aspects seem particularly important, the impoverishment, the race to the bottom of transmitted knowledge, the 'emergence of a university of insecurity, both in the sense that is based on working relationships (not only type of contract) characterized by increasing instability, uncertainty. both in the sense that at a future precarious prepares its studenti.Una particular attention must be paid, especially in view of initiatives like the G8 University Summit, the issue of internationalization of the university-globalization, more and more present in the documents of the institutions academic, supranational bodies, but not easy to be returned in its complexity, because it calls into question several levels: the forms of regulation and policy at the supranational level or forms of "regionalization" as the creation of the European Research and Higher Education. But even the efforts of universities, such as growth in the number of seats open abroad, the establishment of joint ventures with other foreign universities. Merely the fact the classical model of cooperation between scientists, which knows no borders, we argue models of increasing competition to attract investment, students and researchers. The individual university itself as infrastructure in place between the world market and the underground reservoir of social intelligence. World space are introduced new forms of control, control over the flow of knowledge and the mobility of students and those working with knowledge, impose new hierarchies and distinctions (think the obsession with international rankings). The need to knowledgeNella restructure scientific discussion that was held in Sapporo, last year, and in the final declaration produced (Sapporo Sustainability Declaration), a significant space is given to the need, to meet the challenges of sustainability, to reorganize the knowledge and its transmission , pushing the limits of specialists, and developing an interdisciplinary approach, one of the proposals is to organize "Network of networks", he says that long ago that scientific research is organized on a global scale in the form of networks and is now coordinating the networks, not only, however, for raising awareness, but with the objective to develop, through cooperation with public and private partners, innovations in public policy on sustainable development. These issues will also be the center of the summit in Turin and the rest, are part of a more general growth of attention by supranational bodies for what is called "Education for Development Sustanaible." It should first be noted that, however, affirmed the need di ristrutturare saperi e formazione non si accompagna a nessun ripensamento sul processo di trasformazione dell’università e in particolare sulla sua internazionalizzazione, così come abbiamo tentato di ricostruirla prima, anzi, le proposte di merito adottano linguaggi, logiche e modalità operative di quei medesimi processi ( si pensi alla riduzione alla figura di “stakeholder”, portatore di interessi, dei soggetti che entrano in contatto con gli atenei, presa dalla letteratura manageriale).Noi partiamo, invece, dall’assunzione che gli specialismi ed il sacrificio della conoscenza che comportano, sono il prodotto di un attacco alla ricchezza ed alla varietà delle capacità dei soggetti e non l’esito unexpected and unwanted development of autonomous scientific disciplines, that the questioning of this situation through the battle to take them back the skills, more generally, to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge that can not impose on them through the conflict, with the forms they are hierarchical, commodified, privatized (it's the rest of those issues that raised the Wave, when he called the prospect of self and dell'autoriforma). In the preparation of this call showed the need for further issues related to sustainable development and to build a critique not only linked to the specific university; riteniamo comunque, che si debba partire non tanto dalla discussione sul concetto in sé, ormai diventato un termine contenitore, utile per gli scopi più diversi, ma dai processi reali, dalle scelte operative a cui rinvia.Innanzitutto bisogna ricordare che nell’impostazione degli organismi sovranazionali e degli stati più sviluppati economicamente, serve per garantire ed estendere il regime della proprietà e del profitto sulle risorse naturali, per permettere lo sviluppo di nuove merci e di nuovi settori ( si pensi alla questione delle energie rinnovabili). Inoltre, le politiche ispirate da quel concetto si integrano dentro processi più generali di flessibilizzazione del potere e dell’amministrazione, che permettono la costituzione di nuovi dispositivi del controllo, in grado di coprire meglio, in modo più esteso e capillare, il terreno della riproduzione sociale, di mettere a valore ambienti considerati nella complessità delle loro interazioni.Continuiamo pensare che anche la lotta contro le devastazioni ambientali ( e non, solo perché le strategie della sostenibilità, come si è visto, non riguardano solo le risorse naturali) debba passare per la rimessa in discussione delle rigidità politiche, economiche e sociali che l’ordine neoliberista ha costruito e che il “sistema della crisi” oggi in fase di costituzione tenta di aggiornare.L’agenda dell’ondaContro il vertice di maggio intendiamo lavorare ad una serie articolata di iniziative of struggle and debate, we need to deepen the criticism of the transformation processes that affect the university, developing elements of inquiry that are posed on the ridge between resistance and exploitation, and at the same time, we feel the need to maintain attention to what is happening, the evolution of the crisis, government intervention, which takes advantage of this environment to further the disintegration of the living conditions, work, socializing, attacking with increasing force the spaces of political freedom and sociale.È extremely important building conditions, from the start, for a national demonstration in those days, in Turin, with a sharp contrast to the characterization of the summit. It is also essential to organize a time in that same period of comparison with other realities and international experiences that have moved the issue of the relationship between the global crisis and crisis of the university. We must also continue to build alliances with social and nell'interlocuzione other subjects that are moving against the crisis, for the construction of elements of platform on the issues, we believe that unifying, welfare and social reproduction, is inevitable, moreover, since the central theme of the summit, build relationships with more detailed movements that have moved into the territories for the "common good" ( No Tav, No Dal Molin, against the privatization of water resources, etc.) and their place, starting with their specific needs can not be mediated and have demonstrated their ability to deal with attempts to suppress the conflict or, alternatively, to make in a consensual framework of the typical rhetoric about "sustainable development" (or at least very similar to it).
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