Date: Saturday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 059: Workshop: The Insurgency will not be De-Radicalized: Resisting Counterinsurgent Forces Inside and Outside the University
Room: Grant Park Parlor

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Rahsaan H. Mahadeo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Discussant: David Stovall, University of Illinois Chicago

Description: 

This workshop is designed to help participants identify counterinsurgent threats to radical political thought and praxis. Electoral politics, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) regimes, liberal anti-racisms, and even subfields like Critical Race Theory are complicit in suppressing radical action aimed at bringing about transformative change. Similarly, public intellectualism/scholarship, including public sociology, represent a key threat to radical thought and praxis in the university. What many of these intellectual movements have in common is the capacity to distract, dilute, and dismiss. This workshop will center those with experience negotiating counterinsurgent pressures (e.g., political, financial) alongside insurgent impulses. Together, we will discuss ways to maintain principled positions and resist the urge towards concessions under the guise of “compromise.”

Panelists:

Andy Clarno, University of Illinois Chicago

Xanat Sobrevilla, Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD)

Chez Rumpf, Love and Protect

Ryan Oto, University of Minnesota

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