Possibilities and Paradoxes of Activist Strategies

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

What are the possibilities and paradoxes of staking political claims within rights-based or "inclusion" paradigms, of forging coalitional unity and/or dissenting counter-publics? This panel examines the democratic and undemocratic effects-from unintended exclusions to surprising alliances-- of building social movements and activist identities in and through this wide range of grassroots strategies. Particular attention is paid to social justice efforts like Occupy and Sanctuary Cities movements, queer migrant activist formations and feminist struggles around legitimizing sexual identities.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 42: New Political Science

Cosponsor

• DIVISION 52: Migration and Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Queer Migrant Movement Formations: The Paradoxical Effects of Rights Losses - Erin Mayo-Adam, Hunter College, CUNY

• NOW’s Delineation of Lesbian Rights - Kevin Anthony Henderson, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Exposing Hypocrisy? #MeToo and the Politicization of Feminist Values - Caitlin M. Brown, College of William & Mary

• The Right to the City at Fifty: Social Movements in Contested Urban Spaces - Kelly Clancy, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Chair

• Kim Geron California State University, East Bay

Discussants

• C. Heike Schotten University of Massachusetts Boston

• Terrell Carver University of Bristol