Campus Abolition at ASHE
The Campus Abolition Research Lab team will be presenting their work at the 2022 Association for the Study of Higher Education conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Below is a schedule of research team members’ presentations:
Brenda Anderson Wadley
Thursday, Nov. 17 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | A Critical Discourse Analysis of Institutional Commitment, Campus Safety, and Legitimacy for the Carceral State
Location: Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Melrose 1
Description: This critical discourse analysis examined a university response to student activism as an institutional commitment to reimagining campus safety and security devoid of law enforcement. Our analysis determined the response functioned as a non-performative speech act, which ultimately replaced and obstructed reimagining through institutional indemnification and legitimacy for the carceral state.
Cassandra Arroyo
Friday, Nov. 18 | 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | “I’ve Never Felt Less Safe”: A Critical Analysis of Black Student Resistance to Campus Policing
Location: Hollywood Resort and Casino, Celebrity 1
Description: This critical case study examines the ways in which Black students at a large public PWI in the midwest make meaning of and resist the racialized practice of campus policing. Through small group interviews, preliminary analyses reveal several themes that highlight the urgent need to reconceptualize safety in higher education.
Jarell Skinner-Roy
Friday, Nov. 18 | 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | “I’ve Never Felt Less Safe”: A Critical Analysis of Black Student Resistance to Campus Policing
Location: Hollywood Resort and Casino, Celebrity 1
Description: This critical case study examines the ways in which Black students at a large public PWI in the midwest make meaning of and resist the racialized practice of campus policing. Through small group interviews, preliminary analyses reveal several themes that highlight the urgent need to reconceptualize safety in higher education.
Taylor Lewis, M.S.Ed.
Wednesday, Nov. 16 | 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM | Towards a “Quare” Battle Fatigue: Queer and Trans Students of Color’s Experiences of and Resistance to Queer and Racial Battle Fatigue
Location: Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Celebrity 5
Description: Utilizing intersectionality theory, quare theory, queer Crit, and Queer of color critique, I seek to introduce a new theoretical framework, “Quare” Battle Fatigue, to include queer and trans students of color’s experiences of Racial Battle Fatigue and Queer Battle Fatigue.
Thursday, Nov. 17 | 8:00 AM - 8:20 AM | ASHE Grads Coffee Conversations: Self-Care
Location: Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Mezzaine
Description: As we reflect on humanizing higher education this week, ASHE Grads are invited to chat about self-care tips for the conference over a cup of coffee. Come connect with other graduate students during this informal meet-up before heading over to the keynote session afterwards!
Thursday, Nov. 17 | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM | What Counts as Violence and Safety?: Anti-Blackness, Racial Battle Fatigue, and Campus Safety
Location: Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Melrose 2
Description: Ohito & Brown (2021) describe anti-Blackness within HWIs as “an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence” (p.139). Racial Battle Fatigue should be of high concern for higher education, because it is a reflection of Black Suffering, a form of suffering that can lead to Black Death.
Charles H.F. Davis III, Ph.D.
Thursday, Nov. 17 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM | A Critical Discourse Analysis of Institutional Commitment, Campus Safety, and Legitimacy for the Carceral State
Location: Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Melrose 1
Description: This critical discourse analysis examined a university response to student activism as an institutional commitment to reimagining campus safety and security devoid of law enforcement. Our analysis determined the response functioned as a non-performative speech act, which ultimately replaced and obstructed reimagining through institutional indemnification and legitimacy for the carceral state.
Thursday, Nov. 17 | 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Athlete Activism: The Road to Humanizing within College Athletics
Location: Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Celebrity 3
Description: The intersection of racial injustice, student-athlete activist behaviors, and the role(s) of institutional agents is significant as higher education and college athletics move forward. This presidential session seeks to illuminate the significance of student activism and sustainability, focusing on forms of support for campus administrators, coaches, and student-athletes.
Saturday, Nov. 19 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Ethnographic Film and Documentary Photography from the Campus Abolition Movement
Location: Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, Celebrity 3
Description: The purpose of this digital ethnographic research project is to reflect the breadth and depth of student political engagement at the intersection of campus and community. Through the use of ethnographic photography, film, and digital media artifacts, this project provides a series of audiovisual snapshots from the contemporary campus abolition movement.
