“in this time of siege for me and mine, mi raza”: Normalizing the In/Security State: Police and Prisons

Featuring Rachel Ida Buff, Inderpal Grewal, Arun Kundnani, and Marlene Nava Ramos, moderated by Manu Vimalassery at the 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference, "Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence."

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militarism, militarized police, normalization, Police Violence, Scholar and Feminist Conference, state violence, surveillance
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Oct 16, 2017 | 6:00PM

The Institutional as Usual: Diversity Work as Data Collection

Sara Ahmed

In the annual Helen Pond McIntyre ’48 Lecture, Sara Ahmed explores how institutions are built from small acts of use. The institutional becomes usual. What usually happens seems to keep happening without having to be made into official policy and sometimes even despite an official policy. We learn about the institutional (as usual) from those who […]

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normalization, resistance, Sara Ahmed