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Michael Menser

Asst Professor   Department: Philosophy   Location: 3316 Boylan Hall   Phone: 718-951-5570   Fax: 718-951-4675   Email:

I first started teaching at Brooklyn College as an adjunct in 1995. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, GRADUATE SCHOOL & UNIVERSITY CENTER - 2003 (PHILOSOPHY) B. Phil; B.A. in Philosophy, PolSci, Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 1990 (Philosophy) Areas of Expertise: Participatory democracy, sustainable development, agroecology, globalization, the state and social movements, ecological cities, solidarity economy. Books and Publications "Chipko," International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-present. Edited by Immanuel Ness, Blackwell: Boston, MA. 2009. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 "Conflict, Coexistence, and the Next Global Assemblage," in Democracy, States and the Struggle for Global Justice, Routledge, edited by Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, Heather Gautney and Ashley Dawson. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009 "Disarticulate the State! Maximizing Democracy in "New" Autonomous Movements in the Americas" in Democracy, States and the Struggle for Global Justice, Routledge, edited by Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, Heather Gautney and Ashley Dawson. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009 "Participatory Democracy, History of," International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-present. (Op. Cit.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 "Shiva, Vandana." International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-present. (Op Cit.) (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 "Participatory Budgeting: from Porto Alegre, Brazil to the US." Michael Menser (lead author), co-author Juscha Robinson. In Solidarity Economy: Building Economic Alternatives: Papers and Proceedings from the U.S. Social Forum 2007, edited by Julie Matthaei and Jenna Allard. Chicago: Changemaker Publications. www.populareconomics.org/ussen/webfm_send/18 (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 "Transnational Participatory Democracy in Action: the Case of La Via Campesina." Journal of Social Philosophy. Volume 39, 1. Spring 2008, pp20-41. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 "The Global Social Forum Movement, Porto Alegre's 'Participatory Budget,' and the Maximization of Democracy" Situations: a Journal of the Radical Imagination. Vol. 1, Issue 1. Spring 2005, pp 87-109. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "The Politics of Assembly: Building an Urban Ecology from A16." (co-authored with Randall Doane, Heather Gautney and Robert Ausch) Found Object #9, Fall 2000. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000 "We Still Do Not Know What a Building Can Do," in Lebbeus Woods, "Radical Reconstruction." New York: Princeton University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1997 "Becoming-Heterarch: On Technocultural Theory, Minor Science, and the Production of Space," in Technoscience and Cyberculture (1996). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1996 "On Cultural Studies, Science, and Technology," with Stanley Aronowitz, in Technoscience and Cyberculture (1996). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1996 Co-edited "Technoscience and Cyberculture," (1996) with Stanley Aronowitz and Barbara Martinsons, New York: Routledge. Spanish translation published in 1998. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1996 Creative Work Co-curator with Josee Bienvenu and Jordan Zinovich, "Shaping Conflicts" Art Exhibition, 123 Watts Gallery, NYC, Spring 1998. 1998 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Faculty Fellow and Seminar Participant in "Democracy Shrugged" Center for the Study of Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate School. (Fall 2005-Spring 2006) (Grants and Fellowships) 2006 Research Activities Member of "Utopistics" Working Group, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University (SUNY). Fall 2006- Spring 2007. 2007 Member of "Utopistics" Working Group, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghampton University (SUNY). 2006 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "The Solidarity Economy Framework as Organizing Project at an Urban Public University," March 20th, 2009, Forum on the Solidarity Economy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "Autonomy as Transnational Democratic Self-Determination: 1968-2008," Annual Global Studies Association Professional Meeting, Pace U., NYC, June 6th, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "Autonomy, Social Change, and the Global Justice Movement," Left Forum, Cooper Union, NYC, March 16th, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008 "Social Forums and the (Inter)nationalization of the Solidarity Economy", Annual Global Studies Association Professional Meeting, Pace University, NYC June 4th, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Whither the World Social Forum, Left Forum, Cooper Union, NYC, March 15th, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008 "Disarticulate the State! Bioregionalism, Transnational Anticapitalism, and the Maximization of Democracy." Paper presented at the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Meeting, Baltimore, MD, December 28th, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Disarticulate the State," Columbia University Seminar on Political Economy and Contemporary Social Issues, December 6th, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "Insurgent Cosmopolitanism: the Reinvention of Participatory Democracy in the Global Justice Movement." Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton, NY, April 20th, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "The Global Justice Movement and the Reinvention of Participatory Democracy," paper presented at the International Social Philosophy Conference annual meeting, Millersville, PA. July 14, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Transnational Dehegemonization in Practice: Via Campesina as Six Dimensional Democratic Combat", "Dehegemonization" conference at George Mason University, April 5th, 2006. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 "Toward US and North American Social Forums," World Social Forum V, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 30th, 2005. (Organized by the Network Institute for Global Democratisation (an NGO based in Finland and Peru). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2005 "Bioregionalism" Wagner College, "Green Festival" Conference, April 24th, 2003. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003 Professional Leadership Departmental Curriculum Committee, 2001-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Grade Grievance Committee, 2003, 2008-present. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 Member of Executive Board of the Center for the Study of Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate School, 2007-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008 Member of the Executive Board, Environmental Studies 2000-present. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008 Honors and Awards Committee, 2003, 2005 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005 Associate Director (Acting), Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work (formerly the Center for Cultural Studies), CUNU Grauduate School, 1997-2002. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2002 Other Professional Activities Interviewed on KPFA radio program "Against the Grain," on the World Social Forum and Participatory Democracy. January 30th, 2008. http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/40105 2008 Referee for New Political Science Journal. 2008 Referee for Nietzsche Studies Journal 2007