Women, Gender, and Politics
Session: N5(b) - Interdisciplinary Feminist Research with/about Communities
Date: May 31, 2016 | Time: 03:30pm to 05:00pm | Location: Professional Faculties - 3160 | 
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Joint Session / Séance conjointe: with/avec CASWE/ACFTS; CASWE/ACÉFÉ; CCWH/CCHF; CRIAW/ICREF; CPSA/ACSP; CSA/SCS ; SSS-SES ; WGSRF, and hosted by CASWE-ACFTS
Chair/Présidente - 1: Marleny Bonnycastle (University of Manitoba)
Chair/Présidente - 2: Ann Denis (University of Ottawa)
Participants & Authors/Auteurs: (Click titles for Abstract and Paper.)
Joan Simalchik (University of Toronto, Mississauga) : Views from the Field: Feminist Praxis in the Community
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Harshita Yalamarty (York University), Sabina Chatterjee (York University) : Laying our Stories Bare: Communities of Colour, Colonization, and Decolonization in Canada
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May Chazan (Trent University), Melissa Baldwin (Trent University) : Unsettling expertise: Toward an intergenerational feminist pedagogy of community enactment
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The Congress theme of ‘energizing communities’ has been an implicit or explicit focus of feminism and feminist critique. In this session three papers explore the contributions and challenges of research and activism in which feminists in the academy engage with those in other communities. In each case there is reflection about diversities (for example: of age, indigeneity, racialization, power) among the participants, and the richness and tensions these diversities can entail. We hope that the conversation in this session will enrich our feminist understandings of communities and academic engagement with them.