Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Session 071: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Critical Reflections on Mutual Aid and Anticapitalist Approaches to Community and Care
Room: Crystal Room

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Health, Health Policy, and Health Services
Poverty, Class, and Inequality

Organizers &

Presiders/Discussants: Andrew Schoeneman, University of Richmond
Bob Spires, University of Richmond
Gabby Gomez, Oklahoma State University

Description: 

This session encourages researchers, scholars, social workers, organizational leaders, and community organizers of all backgrounds and professional settings to bring together a diverse collection of works on mutual aid, anticapitalist, and other alternatives to dominant community organizing models. Through a collective dialogue catalyzed by a diverse group of presenters reflecting on, developing, and employing alternatives to the dominant models of community change, sessions organizers aim to create a collaborative session drawing from not-for-profit, nongovernmental, community activist, social movement, and social work practice across a number of areas (e.g., health, poverty, housing, criminal justice, disabilities, etc.), including those from global/international experiences and perspectives.

Papers:

“‘Neighbors Helping Neighbors’: The Culture of Unhoused Mutual Aid in Los Angeles, CA,” Nicolas Gutierrez III, University of Southern California

“‘The Need Was F*cking Endless’: A Study of the Minneapolis Sanctuary Movement,” Bethany Jo Murray, University of California, Los Angeles

“Engaging in and Bridging Groups within Localized Civic Association: Navigating Heterogeneity in ‘Semi-Acquaintance’ Society,” Beichen Fang, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

“Healthcare Access and Utilization among Migrant Women in Urban Slum Communities: A Case Study of Ayobo Community in Lagos State, Nigeria,” Rowland Edet, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Nwafor Juliet, Heriot-Watt University

“Mutual Aid as Love-in-Action: Revolutionary Counterpower through ‘Affective Infrastructure’,” Hillary Lazar, University of Pittsburgh

“Radical Care and the Dilemma of Compliance: How State Power Shapes Mutual Aid Praxis,” Ami Olson Campbell, Boston College

“Young Adults’ Prioritization of Needs in Third Places,” Denae J. Cook and Danielle Littman, University of Utah

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