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CFP 71 - Panel with Panelists: Teaching Hope, Joy, and Justice: Reclamation of Lifeworlds
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Discussant: Hadi Khoshneviss, Rhodes College

Description: 

As students confront unprecedented challenges—such as climate change, restrictive abortion laws, and the rise of nativism—how can educators integrate historical analysis with contemporary struggles without fostering a sense of historical stasis or political fatalism? This session explores how teaching—through syllabus design, classroom practice, and assessment—can cultivate hope, joy, and justice while maintaining sociology’s commitment to structural analysis. Participants consider how the discipline might offer students plausible pathways toward transformation and emancipation. Drawing on critical traditions, including Angela Davis’s critique of reform as cosmetic and deferred justice, the session asks whether we can envision a revolutionary horizon and articulate its plausibility within contemporary capitalism.

Panelists:

Sarah Jane Brubaker, Virginia Commonwealth University

hephzibah v. strmic-pawl, LaGuardia Community College

Kayla M. Martensen, University of New Mexico

Assata Zerai, The University of New Mexico

stef m. shuster, Michigan State University

Evelyn Perry, Rhodes College

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