Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 060: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Anti-Violence and Violence: Counter-hegemony from Subversive to Revolutionary
Room: Drummond East

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Critical Race and Ethnic Study

Organizers: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Watoii Rabii, Oakland University

Presider/Discussant: Watoii Rabii, Oakland University

Description: 

This session looks broadly at questions around the types of political praxis persons and groups use and/or may theoretically be necessary in response to forms of violence, like racism, war, genocide, structural violence, etc. The session concept is engaging with question of "who gets to determine the “right” or “acceptable” way to resist your oppressor?"

Papers:

“Broken Bond or Resilient Threads: Understanding Social Cohesion in Black American Streets,” Abass Muhammed, University of Delaware, Winner of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Dystopian Dreams: Narratives of Social Control and the Techno-future,” Katarina M. McGuire, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Exploring the Effect of Video Literacy Program in Enhancing Emotional Intelligence Capabilities in Primary Schoolchildren to Develop Resilience to Extremism,” Faryal Razzaq, Karachi School of Business & Leadership and Glenn Muschert, Khalifa University

“Rediscovering Citta: Vignettes on Violence and Healing in Life and Commercial Yoga Spaces,” ,

“Resistance to Sexual Violence as Statecraft,” Melanie Brazzell, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

“The Reproduction of Colonial Violence in Humanizing and Peacebuilding Initiatives,” Emily Schneider, Northern Arizona University

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