Keynote 1
Economic marronage: Black solidarity economies confronting racial and epistemic injustice
31 October (Mon)
5-7pm New York 6pm Buenos Aires 10pm Paris
1 November (Tue)
12am Istanbul 4am Bangkok 8am Sydney
2 hr
Abstract
The global uprise against anti-Black police brutality around the world echoes calls to defund the police and invest in abolitionist social and economic agendas. There are growing debates around whether and how communities could organize to respond to harm and dispossession in autonomous and cooperative ways without dependent recourse to state apparatus, including social services that selectively surveil, dispossess, and punish families of color and their neighborhoods.
Dr. Ferreira will discuss experiences of Black solidarity economy organizing in Brazil as a window to examine the question: What can we learn from Black radical traditions and their experimentations of economic justice through mutual aid against the grains of racial capitalism and entrenching fascism?
She will reflect on the role of scholars of economic justice in perpetrating or ending racialized economic injustice and suggest ideas on how to engage activist scholarship guided by the principles of solidarity economy and racial and epistemic justice.
Chair: Ana Heras