SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 071: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Decolonizing the Academy using Institutional Ethnography and Other Approaches: From Theory to Praxis
Room: Drummond East

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Critical Race and Ethnic Study
Global
Institutional Ethnography

Organizers: Angela Fillingim, San Francisco State University
Urmitapa Dutta, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Presider/Discussant: Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Description: 

This critical dialogue session dives into the complexities of decolonizing academic spaces, methodologies, and epistemologies. The papers will showcase how activist scholars center and attend to structurally marginalized voices in pursuit of epistemic justice. Employing anti-colonial, intersectional, and transnational lenses, they interrogate dominant knowledge systems while exploring the liberatory potential of diverse onto-epistemologies and research methodologies. Beyond critique, this critical session seeks actionable pathways, bridging the gap between theory and praxis to dismantle colonial legacies within academia and beyond. Join us as we connect ideas with action to co-create more just and pluriversal ecologies of knowledge.

Papers:

“Black Agency, Racial Imperialism, and the Creation of a Racial State -- the Case of Haiti,” Rodney D. Coates, Miami University

“Ethnography, CBPR, and Theory: Tensions in Sociological Research as Liberatory Praxis,” Molly Clark-Barol, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Filling in the Blanks: South to South Exchanges of Blackness, (Re)Shifting Research as Resistance, and (Re)Negotiations of Difference in the Diaspora,” Masonya J. Bennett, Kennesaw State University

“Understanding Justice, Equity, Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEADI) from Perspective of Unveiled Histories,” Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico

“What and Who’s Research Is ‘Real’: The Role of Qualitative Social Scientists within Medical Institutions,” Melinda Leigh Maconi, Carley Geiss and Hayden J. Fulton, Moffitt Cancer Center