Roundtable Discussion: Paths Toward an Ethics of Solidarity in Participatory Action Research
Thu, Nov 02
|Location is TBD
The qualitative research team for the Reshaping Prosecution Initiative has organized a roundtable on Participatory Action Research for the upcoming American Studies Association Conference in Montreal on Nov. 2nd from 12 pm-1:40 pm.
Time & Location
Nov 02, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. EDT
Location is TBD
About the Event
Paths Toward an Ethics of Solidarity in Participatory Action Research
Thu, November 2, 12:00 to 1:40pm, TBA
Session Submission Type: Non-Paper Session: Roundtable Format
Abstract This panel’s theme examines the limitations and possibilities for abolitionist praxis in Participatory Action Research (Lawson et al. 2015), or PAR, when conducted within the confines of neoliberal institutions and the shadow state (INCITE! 2007). Non-profit (Zhandarka and Jarrod 2021) and academic institutions (Harney and Moton 2013; Meyerhoff 2019) that claim to be the authorities on addressing the various social, political, and economic injustices of our time often coopt or outright reject the language of abolition in piecemeal reform efforts that perpetuate forms of coercive violence that target poor, racialized, and minoritized populations thus maintaining and expanding regimes of neoliberal governance (e.g. mass incarceration, gentrification, mass deportation, land/resource privatization, medical apartheid, etc.). Under the legitimizing guise of neoliberal progressivism, their political and capital interests are protected.…