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Mapping the Long Haul: Cartographies of Mentoring Journeys

Thu, April 9, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, La Brea

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium proposes mapping as a methodological intervention to subvert dominant narratives of what mentoring relationships should look like. Each paper addresses mentoring relationships across the academic spectrum from undergraduate students to faculty colleagues by mapping their experiences and journeys. The theoretical frameworks are connected through a shared sense of fugitivity - a freedom from hierarchy and the individualism of capitalist systems. The frameworks center collectivity and shared and layered histories, while proposing novel futurity for mentoring relationships. The mapping methodologies are also diverse in geographic, emotional, metaphoric, and metaphysical approaches. What emerges is a transdisciplinary cacophony of ideas that move our understanding of mentoring to deeper, more realistic connections across differences, similarities, and power structures.

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