Introducing ‘Impact’: A Journal from our Friends and Colleagues at Eastern Michigan University
The current issue Volume 3, Number 1 (2025) of Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education is the product of Thesis Eleven editors Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski’s visit to Eastern Michigan University in 2024.
Impact is published online by the students, faculty, and alumni of Eastern Michigan University’s Educational Studies Ph.D. program, Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to the examination and analysis of education in a variety of local, regional, national, and transnational contexts.
A week-long visit at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) with esteemed Australian scholars Drs. Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski provided the impetus for this special issue of Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry. Despite these two being from the “antipodes,” as they and others call the continents of Australia and New Zealand, they felt like family and mentors to us at EMU. Dr. Chris Robbins, a long-time friend and colleague of Peter’s, initiated this special tribute, in part, through collaboration with The Workshop for Community+Collaboration and the Morris Chair Endowment in Educational Transformation at EMU College of Education.
Table of contents
Editors’ Introduction
Rachel Dick and Rachel Robbins-Whited
Letter to Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski
Dante Dorsey
Sowing the Seeds of Utopia Collectively, from Australia to America and Everywhere in Between: A Methodology and Practice for Resistance and Emancipation
Rachelle F. Marshall
Desire Paths: The Visible and Invisible
Audrey Farrugia
Forging Desire Paths in Undesirable Times
Rachel Dick
Road Trip!: U-turns, Detours, and Construction Aplenty in Fordist Modernity
Eric Ferris
The Flaying of America’s Utopia: What New Dreams Can Be Imagined?
Rachel Robbins-Whited
“Through a Medium of Fordism”: Images and Ideas on Utopia
Lisa Voelker
Transpositions: Reflections on Friendship and Nine Days in October with Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski
Christopher G.
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