How to teach repair into a doomed world: from a sociology of doom to a sociology of repair

Twahirwa, Remy-Paulin (2023) How to teach repair into a doomed world: from a sociology of doom to a sociology of repair. Researching Sociology at LSE (05 Oct 2023). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In November 2021, Christiana Ajai-Thomas, a MSc student in Sociology at LSE, coined the term ‘sociology of doom’ to engage critically with how sociology, as a discipline that ‘disciplined’ our minds[1], has been harming black students: To study sociology leaves me hyperaware of my own oppression. Every reading, essay and class is traumatic,” she confesses in her stunning piece. I propose here to continue the conversation instigated by Ajai-Thomas by turning our attention from the student to the teacher. This is not to diminish the importance of the experiences shared by Ajai-Thomas, but rather to broaden the conversation to include those who, like her, enter the field of sociology only to encounter feelings of despair, untimely deaths, and well, hell. Because, it is true, to be black in an anti-black world is to live in “a constant state of rage.”[2]

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/researchingsociology/
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2023 17:51
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:55
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/120618

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