BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:"The Politics of Caring in the Academy"Lorraine Dowler\, profes sor of geography and women's\, gender and sexuality studies at The Pennsyl vania State UniversityThe Politics of Caring in the Academy: Care theory i s a\nresource for mutual aid\, a colonial ideology\, a method of non-capit alist\nresistance\, and a collective survival strategy. Parvati Raghuram ( 2016)\nadvocates for a “multiplicity in care ethics” beyond the Global Nor th\, and\nindigenous feminist scholars Melanie Yazzie and Cutcha Risling B aldy see care\nas a form of radical relationality. Before COVID-19\, the a cademy had already\nintensified work demands under competitive neoliberal performance practices\,\nwhile the post-COVID academy culture welcomes a r eturn to "normal." The\nwistfulness for normality entails a return to powe r relations that are\npotentially uncaring\, and violent in the academy. T his talk focuses on the\nrelationship between feminist care theory and act s of everyday resistance in\nthe academy and will highlight two cases of c are resistance. The first was the\npushback by faculty and students at Pen n State\, for hosting former proud boy\nleader Gavin McInnes. The second c ase focuses on building a harassment-free\nnational AAG meeting. The talk is structured to allow ample time to discuss how\nto integrate radical rel ationality into the academy. Lorraine Dowler is a professor of geography a nd\nwomen\, gender\, and sexuality studies at Penn State University. Her r esearch\nexamines everyday violent processes which are at the heart of the life of any\nnation. She explores the role of hypermasculine state practi ces in everyday\nlife\, private spaces\, and the lives of women and other non-privileged\nindividuals. For this reason\, her research focuses on how individual\nvulnerabilities to violence are rendered invisible through sp atial processes\nsuch as border making\, cultural privilege\, militarizati on\, and nationalism. \; DTEND:20231201T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260317T123324Z DTSTART:20231201T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Geography and the Environment Colloquium Series UID:RFCALITEM639093332047556371 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

"The Politics of Caring in the Academy"

Lorraine Dowler\, professor of geography and wom en's\, gender and sexuality studies at The Pennsylvania State University

The Politics of Caring in the Academy: Ca re theory is a\nresource for mutual aid\, a colonial ideology\, a method o f non-capitalist\nresistance\, and a collective survival strategy. Parvati Raghuram (2016)\nadvocates for a “multiplicity in care ethics” beyond the Global North\, and\nindigenous feminist scholars Melanie Yazzie and Cutch a Risling Baldy see care\nas a form of radical relationality. Before COVID -19\, the academy had already\nintensified work demands under competitive neoliberal performance practices\,\nwhile the post-COVID academy culture w elcomes a return to "normal." The\nwistfulness for normality entails a ret urn to power relations that are\npotentially uncaring\, and violent in the academy. This talk focuses on the\nrelationship between feminist care the ory and acts of everyday resistance in\nthe academy and will highlight two cases of care resistance. The first was the\npushback by faculty and stud ents at Penn State\, for hosting former proud boy\nleader Gavin McInnes. T he second case focuses on building a harassment-free\nnational AAG meeting . The talk is structured to allow ample time to discuss how\nto integrate radical relationality into the academy.

Lorraine Dowler is a profes sor of geography and\nwomen\, gender\, and sexuality studies at Penn State University. Her research\nexamines everyday violent processes which are a t the heart of the life of any\nnation. She explores the role of hypermasc uline state practices in everyday\nlife\, private spaces\, and the lives o f women and other non-privileged\nindividuals. For this reason\, her resea rch focuses on how individual\nvulnerabilities to violence are rendered in visible through spatial processes\nsuch as border making\, cultural privil ege\, militarization\, and nationalism. \;

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