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Register and Attend 2020 Annual Meeting Freedom Courses
Freedom Courses scheduled for November 12-15 will bring ASA members together around urgent topics related to unfolding crises. From "COVID-19, Abolition, Disability Justice" to "Cops Off Campus: A Teach-In on Anti-Blackness, the University, and Policing," these courses aim to sustain our intellectual community during difficult times.
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2020 Annual Meeting
Creativity within Revolt
The in-person meeting has been canceled due to the pandemic.
November 12-15 // Baltimore, Maryland
In the current moment, people are drawing from multiple legacies of rebellion, protest, survival, and revolution to confront forms of dehumanization and ecological degradation that are foundational to the making of “America.” What might it mean to apprehend and respond to the creative acts of people in revolt? How might creativity enable other ways of envisioning and making sociality, community, bodily and spiritual integrity, and radical futurity?
Baltimore City by Yianni Mathioudakis is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.0 License.
Resources from the 2019 Annual Meeting // Honolulu, Hawai‘i
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American Quarterly
September 2020
Volume 72, Number 3
Energy Pasts and Futures in American Studies
Editors Natasha Zaretsky, Michael Ziser, and Julie Sze
The editors' introduction outlines the trajectories that animate energy studies and its intersections with American studies. The eleven collected essays make bold interventions in our understanding of energy in dialogue with scholarship on settler colonialism, indigenous studies, labor and racial capitalism, nationalism and security state, petroculture, media studies, and gender studies.
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