Towards Long and Wide Selves: Maria Lugones and the Praxis of Popular Education

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

Central to decolonial feminist philosopher María Lugones’s political praxis is a deep commitment to popular education. In her work with the popular education collective la Escuela Popular Norteña (EPN) and in her writing, Lugones practiced a distinctly coalitional approach to popular education, one grounded in the recognition that our own understandings and potential enactments of our lives are closely tied to one another and to the meanings that we create together. Bringing together Lugones’ popular education collaborators, this roundtable will focus particularly closely on the theory and practice of popular education as it relates to building a decolonial feminist politics.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / Special Sub-Theme: Pedagogies of Resistance and Hope: Teaching to Transgress

Moderator

• Christine (Cricket) Keating, University of Washington

Presenters

• Shireen Roshanravan, Lewis University

• Cindy Cruz, University of Arizona

• Gabriela Veronelli, Binghamton University

• Manuel Chavez, Monmouth University