Date: Saturday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 053: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist I - Insurgent Counter-Hegemony and Agency of the Unapologetic, Emancipatory, Revolutionary, and Transformative Kinds
Room: Crystal Room

Sponsors: Conflict, Social Action, and Change
Critical Race and Ethnic Study

Organizers: Watoii Rabii, Oakland University
C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

Presider/Discussant: Watoii Rabii, Oakland University

Description: 

The first of two sessions exploring themes around the framing of resistance, particularly the notion resistance should be orderly and easily ignored. This session interrogates the political and symbolic struggles against state, institutional and interpersonal violence, like racism, war, genocide, structural violence and the implicit demand that those who are oppressed suffer quietly and gratefully. The session concept is engaging the question of who gets to determine the “right” or “acceptable” way to resist your oppressor?

Papers:

“Gender as a Determinant of Political and Symbolic Struggles against the State: Findings from the U.S. Capitol Riots Project,” Stephen J. Morewitz, San Jose State University; Forensic Social Sciences Association

“‘Women’s Rights are under Attack’: The Discursive Role of Abortion and Reproductive Freedom in Democrat Electoral Politics,” Saphronia Carson, Emory University and Shannon K. Carter, University of Central Florida

“‘I Felt the Power of Everyone There and a New Strength to Take on the World’s Challenges’: Emotionality Of Black Mages during Black Lives Matter Protests and Women’s March Protests,” Jalia L. Joseph, James Madison University

“Black Gun Ownership: Does Perceived Racial Threat Affect Black Americans’ Gun Ownership?” Amber K. Burrell, University of Washington

“Girls with Guns,” Adriana Leela Bohm, Delaware County Community College

“Discipline, Disparities, and Regions: Analyzing Racial Inequities in U.S. School Expulsions,” Tanjida Islam and Syeda Erena Alam Dola, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Dispossession and Indigenous Resistance in Chicago,” Peter Kent-Stoll, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“State Violence, Colonialism, and the Control of Narrative: War, Resistance, and Terrorism in Palestine,” Isabella Markendorf Marins, Universidade Federal Fluminense

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