Critical Futures: Transforming Identity, Digital Space, and Disciplinary Power

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel examines a range of persistent issues tied to ongoing social crises at various scales and in different contexts. In particular, session presenters focus on shifting understandings of identity and political engagement, from queer theory and prison abolition to the ethics and politics governing digital life to theorizing and addressing crime, mass death, and the rising tide of white masculine vigilantism.

Sub Unit

• Division 42: Critical Political Science (formerly New Political Science)

Individual Presentations

• Abolitionist Alternatives: Embracing the Failure of Punishment - Wendy Wright, William Paterson University

• Knowledge, Neoliberalism, and Crime: A Critique of Evidence-Based Crime Policy - Anthony Grasso, Rutgers University

• White Vigilantism and Masculine Fragility - Mary McThomas, University of California, Irvine

Chair

• Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Discussants

• Beth Ginsberg University of Connecticut

• Melanye Tarea Price Prairie View A&M University