School of Social and Political Science

Please join us for a book talk by Dr Teresa Piacentini, hosted by the Citizenship and Migration Research Network (CMRN) and CRITIQUE: The Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought.

This talk introduces my book Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Migration, which grapples with the ethical and political dilemmas of teaching migration in polarized, politically charged times. Drawing on critical pedagogical frameworks from Freire, Giroux, hooks, and others, the book examines what these times and migration questions mean for us in the classroom where we encounter violences through the content we teach, the concepts we use and the knowledge that we re/produce in our ways of seeing, knowing and talking about migration. But the book is also focused on how we might do this work otherwise and in this talk I will be speaking to two central concepts from the book:  Doing Good Harm and Migration Literacies. I will be presenting these as tools to critically engage with, and do, epistemic justice to help us transform classrooms into spaces of critical learning and resistance.  

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/developing-a-critical-pedagogy-of-migration-studies

Dr Piacentini will be joined in conversation with Sam Spiegel (University of Edinburgh) and his co-authors to speak about critical pedagogies, also drawing on their recently published book, Displacement, Borders, and Unsettling Narratives: Critical Directions for Higher Education.

/link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-72767-2

Teresa Piacentini is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, specialising in migration, asylum, and refugee issues. She has worked in this area since 2000, including ten years as a community interpreter working with people in the asylum system and public and third-sector agencies across Scotland. Dr Piacentini’s work examines themes of belonging, community, solidarity, and resistance. She is committed to anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and socially just approaches in both research and teaching, latterly focusing on the ethics and politics of migration and knowledge production in the classroom.