[CBW_Exec] cbw and social justice policy

[Rebecca Mlynarczyk]

Bill,

Bravo for these thoughts! Deborah will be in touch with the group very soon
with more specific plans for a roundtable on this issue at CCCC in San
Francisco.

Regards to all,

Rebecca

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Lalicker, William <WLalicker at wcupa.edu>
wrote:

>  Although I've already added not just my two cents but maybe a nickel to
> this important discussion, here's another brief comment. Sugie raises
> important points—and I like the fact that we're still discussing my
> wonderful friend and mentor Sharon Crowley's incisive critique. My answer,
> to Sugie and Sharon and to myself when I have to look in the mirror (that
> might reflect injustice) and go to work in the morning, is that (a) it's
> better that we are working in the midst of injustice, even within unjust
> institutions, and working to change them; and (b) the ultimate effect of
> bringing BW students into these institutions is that the normalizing force
> of "academic discourse" can be subverted by the voices and the lives of
> those who bring their experience and reality to academic sites, hybridizing
> the old academic discourse and changing it, de-norming it.
>
>
>
> That doesn't happen always, or easily, or justly, or the same everywhere.
> But without BW practitioners and BW students, it likely doesn't happen at
> all. So as long as we are working to change and subvert
> institutions—actively, riskily, but not inconsequentially—my guess (I say
> "guess" to assure all that I don't claim to be sure) is that being here is
> more likely to make justice than being gone.
>
>
>
> Good, important, complicated discussion. Yes, I want to be in a session on
> this; I'm not committed to any other session yet. It would be great to have
> Sharon as chair or respondent, but she is retiring from ASU and we had kind
> of a end-of-career party with her at CCCC in New Orleans and she may not
> want to attend in 2009; I can certainly ask her—and seeing this thread might
> kindle her interest…
>
>
>
> Thanks again, Sugie and Shannon and Susan and Peter and Marcia and Hannah
> and Deborah.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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