Radical Acts of Parenting and Kinship

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Parenting and the relational dynamics within kinship offer radical pedagogical possibilities. In this session, we center different forms of research around two thematic areas focusing on mothering and knowledge-making in the homeplace as liberatory praxis and parenting as a kin-making ecological pedagogy. Both bell hooks’ (1994) theorization of homeplace as a site of respite, refuge, and radical resistance and Donna Haraway’s (2016) theorization of kin-making as an enduring relatedness provide departure points from Western racialized knowledge making traditions and entry into more intimate and kinful relations.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education

Chair

• Cee Carter, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Papers

• Black Mothers' Pedagogy for Living: Mothering in the Homeplace – Part 1 - Alisha Smith, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Black Mothers' Pedagogy for Living: The Khanga, a Black Feminist Methodology – Part 2 - Mariam Rashid, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Kin-Making as Parent Pedagogy: Larger-Than-Life Revelations – Part 1 - Benjamin D Scherrer, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Kin-Making as Parent Pedagogy. (Odd)Kin: Pedagogies in Weedy Worlds – Part 2 - Korina Jocson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst