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Bio and interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My research is centrally interested in issues of political culture, class experience, and the moral economy within which political identities and solidarities are formed.  My approach is informed by Marxist-feminist political economy and by Marxist traditions of social theory and cultural studies.  These are the lenses through which I explore the interplay between various moral claims \u2014 to human rights, for example, or to the public sphere \u2014 and the material conditions of their articulation.  I have taught and published on US Cold War internationalism and the concept of \u201cculture shock;\u201d on urban social struggles and the \u201cright to the city\u201d as a materialist critique of liberal rights discourse; on the paradoxes of human and citizens\u2019 rights; on hegemony and cooptation as hermeneutics for interpreting social movement dynamics.  My current work examines contemporary class experience through the lens of capitalist temporality, exploring how capitalist social relations structure and discipline our time \u2014 at the minute-by-minute level of gig-workers navigating micro-contracts; day-to-day, as commuters or electronically surveilled remote workers; and across a lifetime as workers looking ahead to \u201cretirement age\u201d and forming their expectations about the length and compensation of their working lives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also have a longstanding interest in undergraduate writing instruction and in alternatives to conventional systems of grading.  I have been active in a Community of Practice dedicated to exploring grading alternatives that can work within the prevailing grading system at Carleton, and I regularly incorporate a focus on writing skills and practices into my undergraduate courses.  I was awarded a Teaching Award by Carleton in recognition of my innovative teaching strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My interests and approaches are thoroughly interdisciplinary: in addition to teaching and mentoring students in Sociology, I am also cross-appointed to the Institute of Political Economy (IPE), the Human Rights and Social Justice Program, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I currently serve as a member of the Editorial Executive of the journal Studies in Political Economy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Schein, \u201cFree Transit and Social Movement Infrastructure: Assessing the political potential of Toronto\u2019s nascent free transit campaign.\u201d Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research,<\/em> Vol. 22 (2011): 115-123<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Schein, \u201cWhose Occupation?  Homelessness and the Politics of Park Encampments.\u201d  Social Movement Studies<\/em>,  Vol. 11, Nos. 3-4 (August-November 2012): 335-341<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Schein, \u201cOccupiers and the Homeless: A Challenge for the Politics of Occupation.\u201d  Progressive Planning, <\/em>191 (Spring 2012), 17-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Paulson and Rebecca Schein (co-authored), \u201cA Response to Workman\u2019s \u2018The Left After Politics.\u2019\u201d Studies in Political Economy<\/em>, Vol. 89 (Spring 2012): 131-138<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Schein, \u201cDemocracy and the Public University: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky.\u201d Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research<\/em>, Vol. 23 (2012), 255-264<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Schein, \u201c\u2018Educating Americans for \u2018Overseasmanship\u2019: The Peace Corps and the Invention of Culture Shock.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em>: (December 2015): 1109-1136<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Schein, \u201cHegemony not Cooptation: For a Usable History of Feminism.\u201d Studies in Political Economy<\/em>, Vol. 94 (Spring 2015): 169-176<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRights\u201d in Keywords for Radicals<\/em>, edited by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O\u2019Connor, and AK Thompson.  AK Press: 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom Free Time to Idle Time: Time, Work-Discipline, and the Gig-Economy,\u201d in Marxism and Law, <\/em>edited by Umut Ozsu and Paul O\u2019Connell, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30757,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Rebecca","cu_people_last_name":"Schein","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[39],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-30744","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-sociology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz; History of Consciousness Dept.","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"RebeccaSchein@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"613-520-2600 x2605","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/30744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/30744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30758,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/30744\/revisions\/30758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=30744"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=30744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}