About Our Conference
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We would like to come together, as critical participants in the world, to understand two phenomena whose discourses have dominated attention economies in recent years: Violence, in the forms of witnessing, censorship, and escalating geopolitical conflicts; and Care, in the form of solidarity , togetherness, and self-/collective-care. Both construct our lived experiences and epistemological frameworks, punctuating everyday life, contextualising our histories, and painting our futurities.
With Violence // Care: Territories and Imaginaries, we seek to open and unpack the relationship between the two phenomena in engaged, creative, and radical ways. By framing the two in this // way, we seek to break open the causal link between violence and care. In this line of thinking, Territories and Imaginaries speak to the ways in which we root our observations and thoughts of inner-outer worlds. It calls for an understanding of how violence and care interact in various contexts, how territories are shaped and transformed by these forces, how imaginaries inform our perceptions and responses, and how these responses further shape our imaginations.
About us
This event is organised by the Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Association (SAGSA) and the cohort of first year Social and Cultural Analysis PhD students in the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology of Concordia University.
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