This preconference will be an occasion for students, scholars and members of social movements, alternative organizations and resistance at large to share both studies and practices of collective resistance, such as feminist/racial/sexual (Ashcraft, 2004; Davis, 2015, 2018; Gittens, 2018), social movements (Ganesh & Stohl, 2014; Ganesh et al., 2005; Ganesh & Zoller, 2012), alternative organizations (Cruz, 2017), or postcolonalism and nonwestern epistemology (Cruz, 2017; Cruz, McDonal, Broadfoot, Kai-chun, & Ganesh, 2018). But also, it will be an invitation to discuss the role of academics in “crossing the boundaries” of neoliberal normativity in order to put forth a more “engaged” community.

Please submit a 500-800 words abstract (excluding references, one page, word document –NOT PDF–), single-spaced, no header, footers or track changes) together with your contact information to Sophie Del Fa: [log in to unmask]. 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 1st, and we will notify our decisions by the end of February. Selected participants will have to submit an extended abstract or full paper by May 1st.

Sophie Del Fa, University of Quebec in Montreal

Joëlle Cruz, University of Colorado, Boulder

Consuelo Vásquez, University of Quebec in Montreal