Charmaine Chua is an acting Associate Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley and is originally from Singapore. Her work concerns the global dimensions of Marxist political economy, postcolonial development, racial capitalism, and technological change, with regional interests in transpacific studies, Southeast Asia, and the US. Her research, teaching, and public engagement investigate socio-spatial reconfigurations of global capitalism from the late twentieth century to the present through a focus on...
Thomas M. Philip is a Professor in the Berkeley School of Education, where he also serves as the Faculty Director of the Berkeley Teacher Education Program. He studies how ideology shapes learning and how learning is a site of ideological contestation and becoming. As a learning scientist and teacher educator, he is interested in how teachers make sense of power and hierarchy, and act on their sense of agency as they navigate and ultimately transform classrooms and institutions toward more equitable, just, and democratic practices and outcomes. His scholarship also explores the...
