Date: Saturday, August 9

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

THEMATIC

Session 033: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Transformative Justice: Theory and Research in Pursuit of Emancipatory Power, Agency, Community, and Peacemaking
Room: Wilson Room

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Global
Social Problems Theory

Organizer: Caroline M. Schöpf, University of the Philippines Diliman

Presider/Discussant: Loretta E. Bass, The University of Oklahoma

Description: 

This session focuses broadly on theories and research on/in transformative justice praxes: for communities, peacemaking, and agency addressing root causes of violence and inequality, fostering community and solidarity, and realizing emancipatory power and healing. Submissions discuss justice for the Global Majority/Global South, restorative practices, community-engaged work, Indigenous, post-colonial, and grassroots justice models, intersectional approaches to justice and power, political praxis and transformation, social justice and social change, practicing and teaching transformative justice, and approaches to and strategies for transformative justice research.

Papers:

“Climate Resilient Development in the Post-pandemic, Post-conflict Era: The Case of Isabela de Basilan,” Diana Therese Montejo Veloso, De La Salle University

“Cripping the Undercommons: Towards Crip of Color Critique in Abolitionist Medical Education,” Mustafa Baqai, Coalition for Abolition Medicine at University of California, San Diego

“Longing for the State: Women Grassroots Activists and Local State-building in Colombia,” Maria Ximena Davila, The University of Texas at Austin, Winner of the Global Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Space, Ethnorace, y Los Que Mandan: Cultivating Vibes for Musical Belonging in Greater LA,” Brandon D. Saucedo Pita, University of Southern California

“The Power of ‘Real’: Creative Writing and Everyday Restorative Practice,” Sophia Lindner, Yale University

“Transnational Transformative Justice: Case Studies in Community-Based Responses to Gendered Harm,” Melanie Brazzell, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

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