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63.034 - Research for Justice: Challenging Discriminatory Policing, School Closures, and Youth Unemployment

Mon, April 8, 10:25 to 11:55am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 700 Level, Room 713B

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium engages ethical, epistemic, political, and institutional issues in collaborative research for justice in movements contesting policing, school closures, and youth disinvestment and unemployment. This action research is situated in the inter-related contexts of local inter/national struggles against a resurgent anti-immigrant white supremacy, gentrification, low pay and lack of meaningful employment opportunities, and the privatization of the public sector. The papers offer lessons for scholars, educators, teachers, activists, community leaders, and policy makers about the production and mobilization of knowledge as a force for building a multi-issue movement for justice and truth-based democracy not just in schools but also in communities. The collaboratively written papers by activists and scholars draw from movements that deploy research for community-driven progressive change.

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