//March 21st, 2025
//3:00-5:00 PM
//GEM Lab, FB 630.15
//1250 rue Guy
To register and access the (recommended) reading from Dr. Chua's upcoming book, email: teagan.lance@concordia.ca
How do scholars who care about mobilizing research meaningfully towards organizing and struggle move from the dominance of what Eve Tuck calls "damage-centered research" in the academy — demonstrating that harm has been done — to research that seeks to understand sources of harm, and map them in service of practical grassroots struggle? In this workshop, Chua will reflect on their work in three long-term strategic research projects (with the Logistics Workers League, Santa Barbara Tenants Union, and Workers in Palestine) and offer some tools and points of discussion in order to think through the potentialities, challenges, and importance of building research skills in service of organizing.
Charmaine Chua is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Their interdisciplinary research focuses on political economy, postcolonial development, and technological change. They are currently writing two books, The Logistics Counterrevolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation, and How to Beat Amazon: The Struggle of America's New Working Class (co-authored with Spencer Cox). Her work has been published in The Review of International Studies, The Socialist Register, Theory and Event, Antipode, Society and Space, The Boston Review, The Nation, and Jacobin, among other venues.
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