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CASBS and Sage Publishing are proud to present the 2023 Sage-CASBS Award lecture. View the release announcing Elizabeth Anderson and Alondra Nelson as the seventh winners of the Sage-CASBS Award.
Elizabeth Anderson and Alondra Nelson will deliver award talks, then join together in a conversation moderated by Woody Powell, the former Sara Miller McCune Interim Director of CASBS. The event will conclude with award presentations.
What is equality? Why should we want it? Social equality is not primarily a pattern in the distribution of income or wealth, but a way of relating to others as equals. Anderson will explain what relating to others as equals amounts to in different domains of life, and why such relations are good not only for those who would otherwise be treated as inferiors, but also for those who would otherwise have superior status.
Alondra Nelson
Scholars use terms such as inequality or discrimination to refer to social stratification and its impacts. But what of equity? Nelson will consider equity as an idea that, while partly derived from academic scholarship, is a more capacious sociopolitical category that simultaneously indexes both aspiration and redress.
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Woody Powell will engage the two winners in joint conversation, exploring themes of overlapping and intersecting concern. In their work, both Elizabeth Anderson and Alondra Nelson illuminate public understandings and advance discourse on how systems of power and social structures perpetuate inequalities and impact marginalized communities.
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The event is in-person and also will stream live online