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What Is at Stake for Gender Justice in 2016? Rethinking Gender and the Politics of Possible

What Is at Stake for Gender Justice in 2016? Rethinking Gender and the Politics of Possible

Discussions of gender and gender-related concerns are ubiquitous in the landscape of the 2016 election and yet in many ways remain bound by certain narrative frames.

In this talk, Professor Sharmila Lodhia will offer an analysis of a series of anticipated and unanticipated ways in which ideas about gender have entered contemporary law and politics inviting pause to consider what a “common good” enshrined in concepts like equality, justice and rights even looks like within a transnational landscape characterized by distinct histories, contexts and societal norms. Professor Lodhia argues that when undertaking advocacy interventions in the arena of gender justice, whether on a local or global scale, we must remain self-reflexive and consider not only the particular visibilities but also particular vulnerabilities within mainstream movements.

Stephanie Wildman will respond, drawing on her essay on Gender In/Sight to suggest frames for processing the spoken and unspoken gender-based assumptions that pulsate through the news.

What Is at Stake for Economic Justice in 2016?

What Is at Stake for Economic Justice in 2016? Inequality in Global, National, and Local Perspective

Growing income inequality and the stagnation of middle-class incomes over recent decades have been prominent themes in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. What are the causes, and what can be done?

In this talk, William Sundstrom will start by taking a step back from the U.S. setting to provide some global perspective on income inequality and growth. In contrast with the case of the United States and many other developed countries, the “global middle” has actually experienced substantial income growth since the 1980s. Might both trends have a common cause? And if so, is it realistic to view economic justice as a common—rather than a competing—good?

What Is at Stake for Environmental Justice in 2016?

What Is at Stake for Environmental Justice in 2016? The Elusive Role of Race and Equity in Environmental Regulation

Panel: Tseming Yang, Christopher Bacon

Almost 35 years have passed since protests in Warren County, NC against the siting of a toxic waste disposal facility in a predominantly African-American community trained nationwide attention on the emerging environmental justice movement.

Even as the term of the country’s first African -American President comes to an end, however, the goal of environmental justice remains unfulfilled.  The talk will review the history of the movement, how it has changed perspectives on the role of race and equity in environmentalism and regulatory policy, and some of the remaining key challenges that face the next Administration.

 

What is at Stake for Racial and Ethnic Justice in 2016?

What is at Stake for Racial and Ethnic Justice in 2016? Stronger Together, Making America Great Again

Panelists: Brett Solomon, Anthony Hazard, Cruz Medina, & William O’Neill, S.J.

What implications do “make America great again” or being “stronger together” have on racial and ethnic justice for the common good?

The Bannan Institutes Racial and Ethnic Justice Faculty Collaborative will host a panel discussion that explores the role of race and ethnicity in the current presidential campaigns. The panel will also explore the potential implications of the 2016 election on racial and ethnic justice, and reflect on the broader contemporary politics of race in the United States.

The 2016-2018 Bannan Institute: Is There A Common Good in Our Common Home? A Summons to Solidarity will explore pressing issues of racial and ethnic justice, economic justice, gender justice, and environmental justice facing our world today, and advance the Jesuit, Catholic vocation of SCU, building a more humane, just, and sustainable world.