The Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair (ZCMP), co-directed by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Diana Taylor (New York University), seeks to find reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic, while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on different Upper New York City neighborhoods. It is housed at the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University and is supported by a CSSD Social Engagement grant funded by the Columbia University President’s Office. CSSD is pleased to announce that the Zip Code Memory Project is the recipient of a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2021.
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CSSD wishes to congratulate Recovery Working Group member Nadja Eisenberg Guyot who has recently published a piece in City & Society, the journal of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology.
The piece is titled "On how to live while being thrown away: Black people who use drugs and the politics of anti-disposability, North Philadelphia, circa 2007 to 2010."
The Recovery Working Group has recently workshopped Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot’s Verso book proposal as well as a chapter of Chloé Salama Faux’s dissertation, titled “African Renaissance as Primal Scene: Fantasies of Death and Rebirth after Apartheid.”
Among many members of the Center for the Study of Social Difference who have shown their support for the end to Palestinian Genocide, scholars Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot, Marissa Solomon, and Miriam Ticktin from the Recovery working group have signed on to a recent collective letter of 1,200 signatories from feminist, queer, and trans studies, advocating for the end of the genocide and occupation and a call to free Palestine.
Read the letter here.
Recovery working group co-director, Elizabeth Bernstein, published an article in Public Books, titled “Heal Thyself?” The article explores Professor Bernstein’s personal experience with a life-changing illness that began in 2014, describing the challenges faced during the diagnostic process and subsequent journey through various symptoms. The article also explores first-person accounts of those with similar illnesses as well as books reviews of works by Meghan O’Rourke and Ed Cohen.
The article suggests the need for a broader consideration of social transformations to better support relations of care and explores potential models of medicine driven by community control rather than profit.
To read the full article, follow the link here.
Recovery Working Group co-director Rebecca Jordan-Young (Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair at Barnard College) participated in the Heyman Center's “Recovery In Practice” conference.
Professor Jordan-Young moderated a conversation with frontline harm reduction workers, community activists, and researchers about the failings of the war on drugs and the function that comprehensive harm reduction, robust multi-pathway recovery supports, and innovative social science research can work to repair and replace the tired criminal justice-focused paradigm.
Recovering working group member Kerwin Kaye published their chapter, "Neoliberal Vulnerability and the Vulnerability of Neoliberalism,” in Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Gender, Sex, and Possibilities for Justice (Routledge Press, 2021).
Congratulations to Recovery working group co-director Elizabeth Bernstein for receiving the Barnard College’s Presidential Research Award for her project “Imagining Immunity: Politics, Precarity, and the Governance of Dis-ease.”
On November 9th, 2022, the Recovery working group hosted Ed Cohen, Professor, Womens and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, as a guest for an event open to external attendees to discuss his new book On Learning to Heal, or What Medicine Doesn’t Know. See more and purchase the book here.
Co-Director of the Recovery working group Elizabeth Bernstein publishes edited volume "Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice” (2021). To learn more about the publication and to purchase a copy see here. [link to external link, Routledge].
