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Whiteness, Imperialism, and Women's Global Activism, 1830-2001
Emily Skidmore, College of Arts and Sciences HOLDEN 5 | 2:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
This talk will explore the various ways in which middle-class white women in the United States have participated in global activism (especially efforts designed to empower other women) from 1830 to the present. As will be revealed, often these efforts—articulated under a banner of feminist solidarity and through a desire to improve the conditions of women and girls everywhere—are blind to cultural differences and end up replicating uneven power relationships. Indeed, often such projects end up imposing Western notions of “liberation,” wherein freedom is synonymous with capitalist individualism and commercialism. All told, this talk asks the question: where does activism end and imperialism begin?
OTC 2014 -Bridging the Communication Gap: Globalization, Privilege, Poverty & Sustainability
Globalism as a way of thinking about the interconnectedness, the commonalities, the shared interests of a larger community signals a paradigmatic shift from the way that many of us grew up thinking about community. This view of globalism as a polity with the welfare of the many as its central assumption contrasts sharply with that of a globalized community—one that has been overtaken or colonized by political and/or economic forces. Globalism speaks to nuances of internationalism, of a collective, whereas globalization can trigger connotations of oppression and imperialism. What can be lost in all of the mediated information is the importance of human dignity around the globe. How do we understand the perspective of the privileged, of the mainstream? How do we, in the midst of all this "knowledge," also acknowledge human talent, experience, and plight? How do we incorporate into discussions of poverty, privilege, and sustainability the innovations of technology, policy, development, resources, utilization, and environmental degradation? Such distinctions in the meanings of these terms help to illustrate the powerful subtleties of the OTC initiative for 2014.
The aim of the Open Teaching Concept is to explore the issues of diversity and social justice, access and disparities, policy and poverty over a variety of disciplines, methods, theories, and paradigms. Looking at such topics as human rights, civil rights, hunger, multiculturalism, gender, labor and production, health, education, LGBT rights, economic opportunity, sexual violence, class, religious difference, environmental sustainability—OTC will allow students, faculty, and staff to dialogue on the larger questions of social responsibility, global citizenship, and the ever-widening, ever-constricting local global nexus.
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Posted:
10/21/2014
Originator:
Nathian Rodriguez
Email:
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Department:
Media and Communication
Event Information
Time: 2:00 AM - 2:50 AM
Event Date: 10/21/2014
Location:
HOLDEN 5
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