The UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group presents:
The Labor of Care and Solidarity: A panel discussion with Professors Rob Chlala and Kaily Heitz
Nov 19, 12-2pm | Rolfe Hall 2125
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Join us for a panel discussion with Professors Rob Chlala, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach, Visiting Researcher, IRLE and Labor Center, UCLA, and Kaily Heitz, Assistant Professor of Geography, UCLA, who will discuss their research on the labor of care and solidarity. Prof. Chlala’s talk is entitled, “Cannabis Care and Fugitive Value in Carceral Los Angeles.” Prof. Heitz talk is entitled, “Black Culture Work and Sites of Sustenance in Oakland’s Landscapes of Abandonment.” The panel will be moderated by Professor Jennifer Jihye Chun.
Speaker Bios
Rob Chlala is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cal State Long Beach and a Visiting Researcher at UCLA Labor Center/IRLE. His work is produced in collective, collaborative processes that bridge labor, urban geography, movement-building and abolition. He will be sharing from a developing book manuscript that takes the changing cannabis industry in LA for glimpses into worlds of freedom, exploring the ways Black, Latinx and/or LGBTQ+ workers in cannabis generate expansive forms of value in the midst of carceral dispossession.
Kaily Heitz is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a critical human geographer and Black geographies scholar, Dr. Heitz’s work focuses on cultural and community responses to racialized dispossession in California. She is presenting a chapter from her manuscript entitled Oakland is a Vibe: The Relational Geographies of Black Cultural Development, which explores anti-displacement activist projects in Oakland that manipulate the practices of racial capitalist development in order to create sanctuaries for Black life and liberation.
Jennifer Jihye Chun is Professor of Asian American Studies, Labor Studies and the International Institute and Associate Director of the IRLE.
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