Date: Sunday, August 10

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 080: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist II - Insurgent Counter-Hegemony and Agency of the Unapologetic, Emancipatory, Revolutionary, and Transformative Kinds
Room: Wabash Room

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

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

Presider/Discussant: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

Description: 

The second of two sessions exploring themes around the framing of resistance, particularly the notion that 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:

“Social Change through Social Media: How Iranian X Users Mobilize Action to Challenge Death Sentences,” Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University and Pouya Morshedi, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador

“Luigi Mangione and the Propaganda of the Deed--a Case Study in the Right to Resist,” Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, Patricia Lengermann and Lauren Rosenkrantz, The George Washington University

“Radical Resistance and the Tyranny of Destructive Leadership: A Sociopsychological Analysis of the Luigi Mangione Case and the Ensuing Public Response,” Dino Vicencio, Pepperdine University

““If I Want to Kill You, Then I Should Be More Mature:“ Risk, Resistance, and Counterinsurgent Maturity,” Sophia Lindner, Yale University

“Writers against Cop Cities: Recentering Protesters and Challenging Dominant Narratives as a Cultural Process,” Jadelynn C. Zhang, Emory University

“From Cellphone Recording to Protective Monitoring: Witnessing as Resistance,” Brandon Alston, The Ohio State University

“LGBTQ+SEA: Experiences of First and Second Generation Queer and Trans Southeast Asians in the Absence of an Ethnic Core,” Jasmine S. Buenviaje, SUNY Oneonta

“Dissent, Transgress, Subvert: Transformative Potential of Expressive, Performative, and Participatory Art in Resistance to Crimes of the Powerful,” C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University

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