SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting
Date: Friday, August 9
Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Session 028: Decolonizing the Canon: Global South Scholarship and Countering Western Hegemony in Social Problems Theory and Research
Room: Lamartine
Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Global
Social Problems Theory
Organizers: Faryal Razzaq, Karachi School of Business & Leadership
Korey Tillman, Northeastern University
Presider: Faryal Razzaq, Karachi School of Business & Leadership
Discussant: Korey Tillman, Northeastern University
Description: The session is dedicated to shed light on the realities of social justice and social problem theory implications in the Global South, as mostly the social problem theories were developed in North America, and create a hegemony in research and thesis, which may have discounted the ground realities in global south.
Papers:
“Critical Phenomenology of Citizenship and Protest Spaces: Online Anti-immigration Movement Discourse in India,” Chetna Khandelwal, University of Calgary, Winner of the Global Division’s Student Paper Competition
“Gender-based Violence and Human Security in Conflict Zones: The Lived Experiences of Internally Displaced People from Zamboanga and Marawi,” Diana Therese M. Veloso, De La Salle University
“Why A Focus on Autonomous Social Science Traditions in the Global South Is Vital for Decolonizing Knowledge Production,” Caroline M. Schöpf, University of the Philippines Diliman
“Indigenous Women of the Global South Challenging Global Capitalism, Extractivism, and the Age of the Anthropocene,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Indiana University Kokomo