Rethinking Theories of Gender, Race, and Sexuality from Anti-, De-, and Postcolonial Perspectives

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel seeks to bring together papers that critically examine theories of gender, race, and sexuality from anti-, de-, and postcolonial perspectives. We are interested in work that is grounded in situated differences—whether historical, geographical, cultural, or identity-based—rather than assuming the universal applicability of existing theoretical frameworks. We welcome submissions that explore how these new approaches can reshape the production and development of theories of gender, race, and sexuality, as well as the relationship between theory and practice. By interrogating how dominant sociological theories of gender, race, and sexuality have reproduced hegemonic frameworks, this panel aims to foster critical engagement with the possibilities and challenges of employing anti-, de-, and postcolonial perspectives, while advancing theoretical dialogue on how these approaches can inform scholarship, pedagogy, and politics.

Sub Unit

• Theory Section / Rethinking Theories of Gender, Race, and Sexuality from Anti-, De-, and Postcolonial Perspectives

Presider

• Youbin Kang, City College of New York

Individual Presentations

• Bringing Empire In: Reading Black Reconstruction through the lens of Darkwater - Julia Bates, Sacred Heart University

• Decolonizing Gender: Applying the Relational Framework to Gender Structures in the Dominican Republic and [South] Korea - Isabella Carolina Rivera Volquez, University of California-Los Angeles; Dasom Nah Gonzalez, University of California-Los Angeles

• On the Abolition of Sociology - Devin Z. Williams, Yale University

• Reconceptualizing Freedom: Analyzing Enslaved Women's Resistance in 18th-century Santo Domingo - Eliana M. Mercedes, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Unpacking “race” and “modernity”: Portuguese expansion and difference-making at the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade - Luisa Farah Schwartzman, University of Toronto

Session Organizers

• Veda Hyunjin Kim, Ohio Wesleyan University

• Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago