351 - Special Session. Whose Knowledge? Who Benefits?

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This session will focus on knowledge production: diverse epistemologies, existing global hierarchies of knowledge, and the efforts to address these hierarchies. The session will include American and international speakers will address topics such as knowledge production and questions of social justice, creating new democratic platforms for disseminating knowledge, reflections on multiple modernities. The embedded issue is about coalitions to change knowledge hierarchies.

Sub Unit

• Special Sessions

Session Organizer

• Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut

Presider

• Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut

Panelists

• Vrushali Patil, Florida International University

• Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney

Discussant

• Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut