Radical Love for Creative and Transformative Justice

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

While social movements scholars have explored the deep relationship between emotions and collective action for social justice, there is a need for a more robust conversation about the role of radical love as a transformative social force. This session will explore love as a verb rather than a noun (see bell hooks 1999), highlighting work that seeks to better understand collective strategies centering love for social change, how radical love stretches the creative boundaries of social movement strategies, and ways centering love in our research changes the work we create about social movements.

Sub Unit

• Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section / Radical Love for Creative and Transformative Justice

Presider

• Jocelyn Bell, Bryant University

Individual Presentations

• Beyond Critique of Carceral Feminism: Kurdish Women’s Movement and Its Transformative Vision of Justice - Tan, SUNY-Binghamton

• Fight for Someone: Love-Politics in Organizing for Reproductive Health Care Legislation in Rhode Island - Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, Rhode Island College; Jordan Banick, none; Robert Warner Widell, University of Rhode Island

• Joy as Resistance: Fugitive Organizational Practices Under Racial Capitalism - Marni Fritz, University of Illinois-Chicago

Session Organizer

• Jocelyn Bell, Bryant University