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CFP 23 - Critical Dialogue: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist: Counter-Hegemonic Agency and Emancipatory Anti-colonial Political Praxis
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Sponsor: Critical Race and Ethnic Study

Organizers &

Presiders/Discussants: C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University
Watoii Rabii, Oakland University
Marta M. Maldonado, Oregon State University

Description: 

You will not be emancipated by the benevolence of an oppressor”—and so, how shall we resist? This session explores questions and lived experiences of unapologetic and transformative political praxis against oppression and injustice (e.g., colonization, violence, genocide, crimes of the powerful, racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, structural violence) and the political systems that sustain them. Of particular interest are papers that engage the question: “Who determines the ‘right’ or ‘acceptable’ way to resist your oppressor?

Papers:

“The Radical Sociological Imagination: Mapping Decolonial Possibility through Mutual Aid Practice in Political Witchcraft and Kashmiri Scholar-Activism,” Apoorvaa Joshi, Rutgers University

“Right to Resist on Screen: Decolonial Feminism and the Politics of Defiance in Moroccan Cinema,” Hind El Fellak and Yassine Ben Abou, Ibn Tofail University

“Becoming Agentic Bodies Through Embodied Performances: Feminist Memory Work against Political Sexual Violence in the 2019 Chilean Uprising,” Lidia Yáñez Lagos, University of Manchester

“Expanding Antiracist Agency in Organizations,” Fernando A. Ospina and Ruth T. Butters, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine

“Lessons from the Peripheries: Resistance among U.S. Territorial Peoples,” Sione Lynn Pili Lister, Arizona State University, Honorable Mention of the Global Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Protection, Care, and the ‘Right Way’ to Advocate: Racial Resistance in Chicago High Schools,” Ana Vasan, The University of Chicago

“Radicals and Revolutionaries: Women, Guns and Emancipation,” Adriana Leela Bohm, Delaware County Community College

“Is This Love or a New Power Struggle?: Malian Women’s Perceptions of Chinese and Russian Influence under Coloniality,” Kadidja Diaby, Kennesaw State University

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