Division B Pre-Conference Mentoring Session: "Diverse From What?" Curriculum Research to Abolish the Nonethics of War in Education Globally (Day 1 of 2)

Session Type: Pre-Conference Mentoring Session

Abstract

In this preconference we hope to create a space for the abolitionist imagination that, inspired by acts of rebellion and maroonage (the creation of self-affirming communal societies), charges curriculum research with a task. That is to become a place, a space, an act, a process, a desire, an inquiry, a movement for the abolition of non-ethics acts of war on women, LGBTQI peoples, forcibly displaced peoples, Black and Brown people, people whose bodies and minds don’t conform to the “normal” default mode of being, people whose lands have been stolen, people whose livelihoods are threated on a daily basis, and the planet whose life is threatened by people. This preconference seminar is a cry that “animates the birth of theory and critical thought” (Maldonado-Torres, 2007) in curriculum studies research. Our goal as early career academics, PhD students, or wherever in the academy you may be coming from, is to struggle to restore ethics in all the places non-ethics war has been causing harm for over 500 years.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies

Chairs

• Ligia L. López López, The University of Melbourne

• Muna Saleh, Concordia University of Edmonton

• Emma Renold, Cardiff University