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Canadian Political Science Association2025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College, Toronto, CANADA
June 3 to June 5, 20252025 Annual Conference Programme
The Politics of Belonging: Conflict,
Community, Curriculum
Hosted at George Brown College
June 3 to June 5, 2025
Workshop 6 - Anti-oppressive strategies and solidarity in and out the classroom (Presented by the Race, Ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples And Politics Section)
W604 - Workshop 6 - Roundtable: Teaching Haitian Feminism for Social Justice in Academia
Date: Jun 3 | Time: 01:45pm to 03:15pm | Location:
Chair/Président/Présidente : Célia Romulus (University of Ottawa)
Sabine Lamour (Brown University/ UEH)Alexandra Cenatus (Maryland Humanities)
Mamyrah Prosper (University of California, Irvine)
Abstract: This round table brings together a diverse group of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds and geographies to engage with the idea of anti-oppression politics in academic work. Participants will reflect on positionality and relationality in research and in critical pedagogy and will come together to discuss how they impact knowledge production, dissemination and people’s experiences. Centering positionality and relationality in the academy, teaching and researching contested topics can bring about empowerment, as well as challenges, and the extent to which these considerations are incorporated into the larger field is unclear. In this roundtable, we ask: how does positionality impact knowledge production between the Global North and the Global South? To what extent does an engagement with positionality limit or enhance the reach of scholarship? We will also explore the potential of critical theories and innovative teaching practices in untangling and questioning hegemonic cultures and readings of global politics in academia by asking: How can we teach controversial subjects in the classroom? What are the epistemological and ontological insights brought by marginalized voices in the field? How can academia contribute to social justice? How do Decolonial, critical Africana theories, Black Feminist theories challenge theory and disciplinarity as conceived in International Studies?