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  • The May 13 Group is an emerging ecosystem oriented toward—and energized by—epistemic healing and wholeness in, through, and around evaluation. Join hosts Carolina De La Rosa Mateo and Vidhya Shanker as they dive into ideas and stories that deepen our understanding of how structurally-focused collective action, including direct action organizing, can challenge capitalist relations of knowledge production and colonial ways of knowing, reclaim the means and ends of knowledge production, and build the foundation for a solidarity economy.
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  • Why Evaluation?

    Why Evaluation?
    Jun 11 2024
    Summary In this episode, hosts Carolina De La Rosa Mateo and Vidhya Shanker ask, “why evaluation?” We wonder if evaluation can be a site of resistance against racial/gendered capitalism, when capital developed evaluation to support its interests and continues to control the means and ends of knowledge production. Can evaluators renounce capitalism and positivism to organize against exploitation alongside the working class? Can we refuse to take EEI, DEI, CRE, GEDI, CRT, etc. for granted and change the structure of the knowledge economy? Episode 2 transcript Notes 19:45: Access to the written word provides an advantage only in hierarchical systems that devalue oral traditions and non-written languages and knowledge to justify the displacement of entire bodies of knowledge and ways of knowing and the corresponding domination of entire peoples who are portrayed as primitive or unfit to govern themselves20:30: (Vidhya’s elaboration) Tamil language and culture predate Sanskrit and what people now call Hinduism. But the language that brahmins typically claim is Sanskrit. Though no longer spoken, Sanskrit is still used within Hindu hegemony in much the same way that Latin and Greek are used within European hegemony: to provide authority and legitimacy to specific ideas and practices and to discredit others.23:15: The only time that there is not an adversarial relationship between workers and management is when workers are management, as in self-governed cooperatives47:06: There is also ⁠the stereotype⁠ that Asians only like numbers—⁠cultivated largely through the 1965 Immigration Act⁠47:47: While this happened in 2020, Vidhya meant the 2016 elections References Rodríguez, D. (2016). ⁠The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex⁠. Scholar and Feminist Online—Navigating Neoliberalism in the Academy, Nonprofits, and Beyond, 13.2.⁠Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production⁠ (6,000-word blog entry)⁠How Environmentalism was Separated from Class Politics⁠ (60-min video of a Jacobin talk by Matt Huber)⁠The Professional-Managerial Class⁠ (2-hr video of a Jacobin talk with ⁠Catherine Liu⁠)⁠The Dialectic of Enlightenment⁠ (25-min video)How Europe Under-developed Africa: 50 years since its publication⁠ (2-hr video about Walter Rodney’s activist scholarship)Vidhya’s understanding is based on personal communication over time with Justin Laing of ⁠Hillombo Consulting⁠⁠Why Marx was Right: Alienation⁠ (25-min video)How Capitalism Absorbs Anticapitalism⁠ (15-min video)⁠West India Emancipation⁠, speech delivered at Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them” (p. 139 of Assata: An autobiography, 1987; Lawrence Hill)Marshall, A. G. (2015). ⁠Black Liberation and the Foundations of Social Control⁠. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 74(4), 775–795.Delgado, R. (2009.) ⁠Explaining the Rise and Fall of African-American Fortunes: Interest Convergence and Civil Rights Gains⁠. Harvard Civil Rights—Civil Liberties Law Review, 37: 369–387.Kohl-Arenas, E. (2015). ⁠The Self-Help Myth: Towards a Theory of Philanthropy as Consensus Broker⁠. The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 74(4), 796–825.The ⁠MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis⁠ Facebook group⁠The Frankfurt School, Student Radicalism & Anti-Communism⁠ (75-min podcast by Unequal Exchange with ⁠Gabriel Rockhill⁠)⁠The Frankfurt School: From a Failed Revolution to Critical Theory⁠ (25-min video)⁠A place for solitude, community & healing for attendees who identify as Indigenous, Black, and People of Color (IBPOC) at Evaluation 2019!⁠ (AEA365 Blog post from 2019) Music “Inspired” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Contact us Website: ⁠https://themay13group.net⁠ LinkedIn: Carolina: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/carodela⁠Vidhya: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhyashanker
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    56 mins
  • Who Are We?

    Who Are We?
    Jun 11 2024
    Summary In this episode, we (hosts Vidhya Shanker and Carolina De La Rosa Mateo) introduce ourselves, share how our worlds came together, and discuss The May 13 Group. We talk about our personal histories inside and outside evaluation, the Minnesota IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis, how The May 13 Group came to be, and what it could possibly become. We invite anyone who works in and around evaluation or other knowledge work (e.g., philanthropy, nonprofits, NGOs, government, academia) to take a listen and help craft the ecosystem! Episode transcript Notes 1 correction: At the 45:34 mark, Vidhya misspoke by saying "before my generation and even before me" when she meant to say "before me and even before my generation." References Why is Evaluation So White? (90-min video of Center for Evaluation Innovation webinar that took place on 5/13/2020)Definitional Tension: The Construction of Race in and through Evaluation (dissertation that draws from and led to many of the ideas The May 13 Group is working with)Pangea World Theater (comrades who helped create the stop-action play entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Culturally Competent, which led to the MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis)Theater of the Oppressed (playlist of videos ranging from 5 to 30 min on Augusto Boal and the performance traditions underlying The Revolution Will Not Be Culturally Competent)Welcome to the Revolution! MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis (AEA365 Blog entry)Shaking Up the Evaluation Patriarchy: AEA Womanists & Feminists Coming Together to Claim Power and Place in the Academy (AEA365 Blog entry)The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation, Part 1 (AEA365 Blog entry)The Invisible Labor of Women of Color and Indigenous Women in Evaluation, Part 2 (AEA365 Blog entry)Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (inspiration for much of the mutual aid work)Why is Evaluation So White? 10 Ways to Repair, Reverse, Redress, and Regenerate from the Racialized Circulation of Capital in Evaluation (20-min video of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations short-talk)Mondragon (worker-owned coop in Spain)The Rand Corporation and Our Policy Makers (article about the Rand Corporation)Beyond Mobility: The Limits of Liberal Urban Policy (paper with a bit about/ surrounding the Urban Institute)The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (book about the origins of philanthropy and NPIC) Music “Inspired” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) ⁠Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0⁠ Contact us Website: ⁠⁠https://themay13group.net⁠⁠ Linktree (Vidhya): https://linktr.ee/dr.vidhyashankerphd LinkedIn: Carolina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carodelaVidhya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhyashanker
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Launching Soon: The May 13 Group Podcast

    Launching Soon: The May 13 Group Podcast
    May 10 2024

    The May 13 Group is an emerging ecosystem oriented toward—and energized by—epistemic healing and wholeness in, through, and around evaluation. Join the hosts as they dive into ideas and stories that deepen our understanding of how structurally-focused collective action, including direct action organizing, is needed to reclaim the means and ends of knowledge production and how to make it happen.
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    1 min
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