Davin Phoenix

I AM DELUSIONAL

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We analyze the show’s ideological collapse between the left & the far right as we raise the question: when output of the nation’s largest media empire labels young people engaged in very real social movement struggles as terrorists, what possibilities fall away from our political imagination?

10.03.2025 22:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our chapter, Redemption, Radicals, and Race, interrogates how the MCU’s "The Falcon & The Winter Soldier" series frames the villains--a multi-racial youth-led movement whose politics resonate w/ Occupy, BLM, Standing Rock, & pro-Palestine movements--as a terroristic on par w/ superpowered villains

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Terrorism in Youth Popular Culture: Teaching the Next Generation from the Cold War to the Present This book examines the representation of terrorists and terrorisms in films, television shows, books, video games, and other popular cultural formats aimed at children and young adults to reveal t...

Also want to highlight my collaboration w/ Isabel Gonzales of UVA (& 1 of my favorite writers) in the edited volume “Terrorism in Youth Popular Culture.”

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10.03.2025 22:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thinking about what enactment of radical visions of change to the education system could look like. Something like what the Panthers imagined. Which often resonates with what many contemporary critical pedagogues imagine. Thinking about how this kind of system would instruct & uplift Mahmoud Khalil

10.03.2025 22:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thinking about the different forms of violence that the education system, as part of a larger sociopolitical ecosystem, inflicts on students who dare to exist, think, speak out, and/or move outside of its edicts and values, no matter how hypocritical those edicts and values are.

10.03.2025 22:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (BPP) engaged in a total struggle for liberation. Through engaging in a multitactical struggle, the BPP revolutionized multiple aspects of daily life to organize the masses ...

Our first piece, Spaces of Learning: Pedagogy and Movement Building Within the BPP is viewable now via Open Access in The Annals of the American Association of Geographers. We grapple w/ how the Party situated its approach to praxis w/in local & figurative space
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10.03.2025 21:59 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Found my Bluesky password & thought I’d highlight some recent work. UCI urban planning & policy PhD Ian Ross & I have been exploring the pedagogy of the Black Panther Party. Their building of schooling models that foster curiosity & dissent over conformity & obedience feel especially timely now.

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