Activism and the Academy: Academic / Activist Partnerships in Mexico
What types of projects are possible when scholars and activists work together? Scholars in the Gender Studies Program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico have formed partnerships with activist groups to address issues like state oppression and violence, struggles for land rights and indigenous rights, and gender equity both within the University and in the community at large. Scholar and activist participants in these projects discuss how they’ve combined traditional academic tools with new ways of intervention to create change. Panelists include Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius, Rían Lozano de la Pola, Lorena Wolffer and Helena López. This discussion, moderated by Margaret Cerullo, took place on the second day of Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action, a two-day conference held September 23-24, 2011 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
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More from this event:
- EVENT: Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action
- VIDEO: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- VIDEO: Writing, New Media, and Feminist Activism
- VIDEO: Archives and Activism: The Contemporary Turn
- VIDEO: Transnational Feminisms Across the Americas
- VIDEO: Expanding Feminism: Collaborations for Social Justice
- VIDEO: Mamphela Ramphele (keynote address)
- VIDEO: Social Justice and Civic Engagement in the Classroom
- VIDEO: Using Knowledge, Advancing Activism
- VIDEO: Campus Activism
- VIDEO: Activist Research: Working in Communities
- VIDEO: Building and Rebuilding Societies in Africa
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Opening Remarks by Janet Jakobsen
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Sonia Alvarez
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: The Multiple Futures of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Writing, New Media, and Feminist Activism
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Living and Working in the Borderlands
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Women’s Literature and Feminist Learning
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Transnational Feminisms Across the Americas
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Expanding Feminism – Collaborations for Social Justice
- PODCAST: Activism and the Academy: Mamphela Ramphele