3217 - Equity and Inclusion for Transnational Scholars and Scholarship in our Sections, ASA, and the Discipline

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

During a time of global instability and injustice, some find themselves struggling within their professional organizations and disciplines as well. While our sections were created to address disciplinary marginalization of particular scholars and scholarship, we now find these same sections to be recreating or reinscribing some of the same inequitable power structures connected to section leadership, programming, scholarship, and recognition of scholarship. Rather than continuing to ignore these tensions, and responding to the ASA 2019 theme, “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World,” we propose to address them head-on and to work together to develop individual, collective, and institutional accountability as we strive to acknowledge privilege and develop greater equity and inclusion in our sections and discipline.

In this workshop, we focus on equity and inclusion for transnational scholars and scholarship. Participants will:

• learn the importance of: de-centering the US in our discipline; learning about transnational scholars, scholarship, and their particular contributions to our sections, ASA, and the discipline; and not taking the U.S. for granted as a site for critical analysis within the discipline.
• have a dedicated space to discuss specific areas in our sections, ASA, and the discipline where inclusion and equity for transnational scholars and scholarship is currently lacking.
• learn about and better understand potential concerns of colleagues who are doing work focusing on transnational issues and consider what it means to be living transnational lives today.
• dialogue about specific solutions to make our sections, ASA, and the discipline (which includes our universities and departments) more inclusive and equitable with regard to transnational scholars and scholarship.
• begin to develop actions plans for making changes to sections, ASA, and the discipline.

Sub Unit

• Workshops / Professional Development Workshop

Session Organizers

• Carla A. Pfeffer, University of South Carolina

• Georgiann Davis, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

• Tey Meadow, Columbia University

• Julia Meszaros, Lebanon Valley College

• Emma Mishel

• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Co-Leaders

• Hae Yeon Choo, University of Toronto

• Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut