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Roundtable: Thinking About Research in Marginalized Communities
February 9, 2024 at 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
| Location: | A602 Loeb Building |
| Cost: | Free |
This roundtable discussion is designed to prompt us to reflect on our roles and responsibilities as researchers when we engage marginal communities in our work. Among the issues participants will address are the relationships between researchers and communities, connecting with participants, methodological challenges and broader ethical concerns.
Participants:
Samer Abboud
Fulbright Research Chair in North American Politics, Carleton University;
Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University
Samer Abboud is Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. During the Winter 2024 term he will serve as the Fulbright Chair of North American Politics at Carleton University in the Department of Political Science. During this term, he will be starting a new research project on Syrian refugee lifeworlds in Ottawa where he explores the past, present, and imagined futures of Syrians in Ottawa as they relate to their experiences living in Syria, during the war and subsequent displacement, and settlement in Canada. He is the author of the forthcoming book Managing Syria’s Conflict: Enmity and Punishment as Illiberal State-Building (Columbia University Press).
Gopika Solanki
Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Gopika Solanki is Associate Professor of Political Science. She is the author of Adjudication in Religious Family Laws: Cultural Accommodation, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Equality in India (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011) and the co-author of Journey from Violence to Crime: A Study of Domestic Violence in the City of Mumbai. She is currently working on a book project on indigenous politics, The Split Personality of Law: Political Decentralization, Gender, and Adivasi Legal Mobilization in India.
Natasha Stirrett
Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University
Natasha Stirrett is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (ICCJ). She is a member of Ermineskin Cree Nation who grew up in the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee in the Cornwall/Akwesasne area. Her current community-grounded research employed an emergent in-process methodology based on the principles of the four sacred medicines. She is currently principal investigator of the SSHRC (Insight Development Grant) funded research project “Mapping the Sixties Scoop Diaspora, Criminalization and [Re] Imagining Indigenous Communities through Storytelling” with Jeffrey Monaghan (ICCJ) and Colleen Cardinal (Sixties Scoop Survivors’ Network). This project thinks about the role of criminalization and punishment in the experiences of Sixties Scoop Survivors. It collaborates, supports, and advances the Survivor-led (SSN) “In your Own Words” GIS mapping website and engages in capacity and network-building. The goals of this project are both research-oriented and committed to advancing public knowledge, education, and community.