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CFP 62 - Thematic: Anticolonial Social Movements
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Sponsor: Sociology, Social Work, and Social Welfare

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Discussant: Agata Pacho, Purdue University

Description: 

Anticolonial social movements have been a significant force in struggles for freedom and self-determination. Emerging from diverse regions around the world, these movements have been driven by demands for cultural sovereignty, political independence, and the dismantling of oppressive systems. They have employed a range of strategies—from nonviolent resistance to armed struggle—to challenge colonial rule and advance the rights of colonized peoples. Colonization, in its many forms, relies on processes such as objectification, commodification, corporatization, financialization, criminalization, militarization, and bureaucratization. Papers in this session examine how anticolonial movements have resisted the colonization of lifeworlds historically and how they continue to shape struggles in the present.

Papers:

“‘We Are the Answer’: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Advocates Defending Indigenous Lifeworlds and Resisting Coloniality,” Sara Tehrani, University of Central Florida

“Complicity and Resistance: Japanese Feminism and Relational Power in the 1970s,” Riko Kobayashi, The University of Chicago

“Decolonizing Western Biomedicine: Exploring the Role of Traditional Medicine as a Health Social Movement,” Barbara Sena, University of Bergamo

“Grassroots Empowerment Innovations in African Cultures: Drawing on Participatory Research Initiative,” Warner Woodworth, University of Utah

“Stewardship as Resistance to Colonization Forces,” Diana Papademas, SUNY Old Westbury

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