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Inequality & Social Difference


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New in 2020, this cluster brings together scholars working across fields (in the humanities and social sciences as well as in law and education, for example) to: examine multiple forms of inequality; take up questions of social difference, embodiment, and identity in ways that attend to structures and flows of power; and to explore (and contest) oppression’s logics, norms, institutions, and practices across time, place, culture, and circumstance. This cluster also includes activities that explore oppositional logics, diverse theories and practices of resistance (cultural, political, creative, pedagogical, collective, embodied, performative), and strategies for contesting inequality and injustice, currently and historically.

Topics

Inequality Social Difference

Groups

ISD1: Feminists Without Borders
Inactive since: 2021
  • University of Rochester
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
ISD2: Critical LGBTQ+/ Sexuality Studies
Inactive since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • Colgate University
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  • Union College
ISD3: Re-envisioning Graduate Communications from a Raciolinguistic Lens
Open to New People Inactive since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
ISD5: Collectively Envisioning Black Girl Futures
Active since: 2022 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
ISD6: Communication & Social Justice
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
ISD7: Crypto-Feudalism Working Group
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Cornell University
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
ISD8: Cultures of Inequality in the Sinosphere
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
ISD9: Humanities Across Disciplinary Borders
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
ISD10: Critical South Asian Feminists
Active since: 2022 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • Colgate University
ISD11: Expressive Writing and Well-Being for Minority Groups
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Le Moyne College
ISD12: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ Culture and Art in our FLX Community
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
ISD13: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Community Collective
Active since: 2023 Closed Group of Collaborators
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Le Moyne College
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
ISD14: Upstate South Asias: Citizenship, Comparison, & Equity
Open to New People Active since: 2023
  • Syracuse University
  • Colgate University
  • Hamilton College
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
  • Skidmore College
  • St. Lawrence University
  • Union College
ISD15: Interdisciplinary Studies of Inequality
Open to New People Active since: 2023
  • Syracuse University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
ISD16: Critical Korean and Korean Diaspora Studies
Open to New People Active since: 2024
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University