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Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson, Social Development Studies and Social Work, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ; Julia Bullard, Information (UBC); Hannah Kia, Social Work (UBC), organized and moderated by Tina Wilson, Social Work (UBC)
Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed
Tuesday, January 21, 5-6:30 pm

in the series
Green College Special Lecture

Social justice and related terms are notoriously unstable objects of analysis and intervention. Liberal responses to seventy-odd years of challenges from anti-colonial and social movements have given rise to contradictory justice-equity infrastructures engaged and theorized by successive generations of movements and academics. In the university, scholarship expresses and concretizes aspects of what is going on. At the same time, our progressive mandate—to craft better knowledge for a better world—encourages benchmarking the new as an improvement over the old. Contributors to this panel will discuss the situated work of negotiating multiple histories, investments, and institutional and relational possibilities to perceive and attempt to elicit forms of social change they can believe in, while also holding space to resist the spectre of regression.