SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 112: Imagining, Building and Sustaining Alternative Forms of Justice
Room: Jarry

Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizer: Catherine Hastings, Macquarie University

Presider &

Discussant: Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Description: 

This session profiles a diverse international collection of emancipatory projects and perspectives that challenge existing practices and suggest alternative forms of justice. In each case, the papers imagine and advocate for progressive forms of transformative justice to confront oppression. They provide examples of how community and individual agency can be reclaimed and supported to oppose disempowerment and violence in justice and other institutional systems.

Papers:

“Art, Agency, and Decarceration: Imagining Alternatives to Social Exclusion,” Paul J. Draus, University of Michigan-Dearborn

“Exploring Alternative Modes of Justice in the Context of Sexual Violence in College Campuses in India,” Sukanya Bhattacharya, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Speculative Knowledges as Anti-racism Practice for Children’s Pain Research in Canada: Building Asian Liberatory Futures,” Samantha P. Louie-Poon, Dalhousie University

“Survivor Justice: An Abolitionist Perspective on Justice and the #MeToo Movement,” Kasey Carmile Ragan, St. Edward's University