Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 027: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Revolutionary Possibilities: Confronting Capitalist Crises and Fascist Forces with Transformative Theory and Practice
Room: Wabash Room

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider/Discussant: Walda Katz-Fishman, League of Revolutionaries for a New America and Howard University

Description: 

Humanity stands at a crossroads. Economic, ecological, social, political crises, state violence at home, endless war abroad – including U.S. funded and armed genocide in occupied Palestine – are our reality. Ruling class forces are moving toward fascist state rule and winning their social base in support of fascism. Social struggles are rising to demand a resolution to these crises and an end to war. Our survival and the survival of our planet are contested terrain. What does it mean to be an “insurgent sociologist” – individually and collectively – in this moment?

Papers:

“Palestine was a Preview – Are Sociologists Ready for What Comes Next?” Melissa F. Weiner, College of the Holy Cross

“Transforming the Narrative of the Dangerous Other,” Mary Romero, Professor Emerita, Arizona State University

“Beyond Colonial Cognitive Maps: The Decolonial Imagination,” Apoorvaa Joshi, Rutgers University

“Neoliberalism, Imperialism and Militarism and the Crisis of Human Rights in the Philippines and the People’s Resistance,” Ligaya Lindio McGovern, Indiana University

“Setting Our Sights on a Future beyond Capital,” R.A. Dello Buono, Manhattan University

“Taking the Offensive in the Class War against Fascism,” Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America and Walda Katz-Fishman, League of Revolutionaries for a New America and Howard University

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