Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 088: PAR and Organizing in Social Movement Spaces
Room: Musset

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Conflict, Social Action, and Change

Organizers: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Thomas Pineros-Shields, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Presider: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

Description: 

Papers in this session present findings from and discuss experiences doing community-based, participatory action, and ethnographic research on community organizing, civic engagement, and social movement activism. 

Papers:

“‘Making the New One to Push out the Old One’: Conflicts as Property for a Mutual Aid Collective,” Zachary J. Kyle, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Joining the Mutual Aid Community Movement: Participatory Action Research as Praxis in the Mutual Aid Community Movement,” C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University and Michael Lee Hurst Jr., Swansea Mutual Aid Resource Treasury

“The Mirage of Democracy: How the Political Process Erodes Political Trust and Nurtures Critical Citizens,” Sadie Dempsey, University of Wisconsin

“Collaborative Reflections on a Joint ‘Lab’ Configuration in CBPR,” Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Centering Voices and Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Youth through Co-designing and Documenting a Community Garden,” Riann Lognon, Santanu Dutta and Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary

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