Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference | May 31 – June 4, 2021 VIRTUAL 55th Annual Conference of the CSA https://congress2021.ca/ Title: Identity Politics Needs Some Class https://www.csa-scs.ca/conference/en/Session Code: APS5 Submission period: December 1, 2020 to January 29, 2021 Abstract submission link: http://www.csa-scs.ca/conference/call-for-abstracts/ **Open to anyone at any university, from any discipline and from any country…
Graphic design for impact
You’ve done the research. You don’t want it to collect dust on the shelf. You want it to make a difference. But you’re used to the academic status quo knowledge mobilization. This is where graphic design makes a difference. I am a researcher and graphic designer. I use the power of design to make research…
Call for abstracts: #113 Revolutionizing & Radicalzing Poverty Definitions
Session sponsor: poverty, class, and inequalitySession organizers: Elaine Laberge, University of Victoria (Canada) | Annette M Mackay, West Virginia University (USA) Around the world, nations are ravaged by capitalism, neoliberalism, ever-evolving —isms. In colonized nations, stratification ladders are forged with the iron will of colonial and capitalist beliefs and practices. We are in a moment…
Free Webinar Series with Sara Ahmed
Thursdays | 10AM ACDT | ZOOM Wednesdays | Canada, UK | ZOOM Canada Time Zone: Wednesdays 3:30pm PST. 4:30pm MST, 6:30 EST UK Time Zone: Wednesdays 11:30pm GMT Time and Date Zone Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html Sara Ahmed (@SaraNAhmed) is a feminist writer and independent scholar working at the intersection of feminist, queer and race studies. Her…
Who is Elaine?
Attributes and Skills Connection: Recognised as a community builder who is respected for working toward addressing systemic inequality and inequity to remove barriers to access and participation in society. Believes strongly working together to meet the needs of their communities.Communication: An excellent communicator, presenter and collaborator who engages effectively and comfortably with diverse stakeholders. Creates…
Let’s do it. Let’s do it now. By Peter Shukie
Let’s do it. Let’s do it now by Peter Shukie Peter Shukie, Blackburn College, Lancashire, UK https://www.blackburn.ac.uk/lecturer-profile/SHUP10 4vlhy9 Blog 0 @shukieone @AcademicsClass Reposted with permission Introduction It has been quite difficult to write this seminar. The difficulty has not been in knowing what to say, but in recognising the responsibility that comes with saying it….
String it Together learning series
The Shoestring Initiative hosts monthly free String it Together: Finding togetherness in community on the education digi-scape webinars focused on social class on how classism shapes experiences in and understandings of higher education in Canada and around the world. The Shoestring Initiative is a grassroots solidarity movement to create communities of mentorship, belonging, support and…
Returning to the Barnyard
ELAINE J. LABERGE Returning to the Barnyard VICTORIA, BC | FEBRUARY 2018 Published in https://humanitiesnetwork.wixsite.com/anthology/downloads How different my story could have been told if I had not entered the world into poverty; I was raised in a community that storied me by my family’s poverty; I was storied by my mother’s supposed failings and weaknesses…
Outliers imagining otherwise in and for universities
Elaine Laberge, PhD Candidate, University of Victoria Written for my PhD Candidacy February 17, 2020 Many emotions drove me to write Miseducation – sorrow, guilt, pride, anger, righteous indignation, regret, anxiety, and fear. But above all a sense of urgency and desperation that, as a woman approaching 70, time was running out. Reay, 2018, p….
COVID-19 and poverty-class higher education students
March 13, 2020 Re: COVID-19 and poverty-class students Dear Canadian University Leaders: I write to you with fingertips quivering over the keyboard. I do not want to further expose myself to ridicule and shame. Yet, I must publicly come out of the social underclass closet because this situation is far more important than my shamed…
Leadership search for meaning making
But it is important to remember that we created these negative and demoralized people. We created them by relying on organising processes that discount and deny our best human capacities…. We can realize that ‘you can’t hate someone whose story you know.’” (Wheatley, 2007, pp. 56-57) This land is your land; this land is not…
Neoliberalism’s Defeat of Democracy
http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/neoliberalisms_defeat_of_democracy/ Neoliberalism’s Defeat of Democracy Wendy Brown. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York, Zone Books, 2015. 296pp. $29.95, hardcover. Reviewed by Jodi Dean In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the end of history. The great ideological struggles characteristic not only of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries but of history as such had…
