Vice-Presidential Session/Division G Graduate Student Session. Responding to Academic Precarity With Fugitive Pedagogy: Creating Spaces for Freedom in Community

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

What is “truth” and who decides? What are the consequences of taking a critical stance in your research, activism, and pedagogical practices? Can graduate students acknowledge our own precarity in a system that runs on our unpaid labor and privilege? How can we co-create liberatory spaces that escape white supremacist moves to innocence and center alternative ways to build solidarity? What roles do early career scholars and graduate students play in this process? Collectively, this session is an opportunity to build community, co-create ideas, and dialogue in small groups for how to enact fugitive spaces in our own practices and communities, and how to better support other students, educators, and scholars in speaking out for justice.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chairs

• Luimil Negrón, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Caroline Sutton Chubb, Georgia State University

• Jana Pickart, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Allyson A. Pitzel, Kent State University

• Ben Ray, University of Alabama

Papers

• Panelist 1 - Chrissy Hernandez, California State University - Monterey Bay

• Panelist 2 - Damaris C. Dunn, University of Georgia

• Panelist 3 - Aja Reynolds, Wayne State University

Discussants

• Amber Neal-Stanley, Purdue University

• Asif Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign