Maritime Inter-disciplinary Arts Seminar (MIDAS) Webinar-FR and SJ

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The (Maritime Inter-disciplinary Arts Seminar) (MIDAS) Webinar will feature Dr. Chris 'Nob' Doran and Dr. Joseph Galbo - UNB Saint John

Learning from five-year-old Joanne: Lessons For theorists, methodologists and activists - Dr. Chris  ‘Nob’ Doran/UNB
This paper (an extract from `doran, nob {forthcoming} “Codifying Parrhesian Bodies”, Oxford: Routledge’) examines the contributions to social science  that can be gained by synthesizing the Millerian approach to ‘Discourse analysis’ with the Foucauldian perspective on ‘power’, and applying it to the ‘ordinary language’ of underdogs, like five-year-old Joanne. These insights are then used to inform current debates about social theory, qualitative methodologies, reflexivity and social activism. The paper finishes by suggesting the need to go beyond Miller’s ‘standpoint’ of the strategic  ‘Underdog’ and deploy Foucault’s final concept of ‘parrhesia’ so as to forge a “parrhesian underdog standpoint”.
 

Alexis de Tocqueville on race, American democracy, and imperial expansion - Dr. Joseph Galbo/UNB
Democracy and empire: Tocqueville’s choice of these subjects and, even more, his handling of them, was an intellectual as well as a deeply emotional and political matter. This essay focuses on two of Tocqueville’s texts, Fortnight in the Wilderness and the final chapter of the first part of Democracy in America, in order to map and discuss, within the context of his time, biography, and current analysis, how he framed the imperial encounter between the colonizer and the colonized and conceptualized national character and racial mentality.

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